Quotes About Family

My father did advertising photography.

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.

I've got a lot to look forward to. I'm trying to be the best father I can, and that's a pretty important role. Some would say it's more important than stopping pucks.

I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.

My father was a great fan of the horses. His only regret was that I never ran in the Grand National.

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.

Father's Day: When you get that lethal combination of alcohol and new power tools.

Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.

My mother is a Muslim - she walks five steps behind my father. She doesn't have to. He just looks better from behind.

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

I came to New York in 1986. My father didn't think it was a good idea. I didn't know how I found it, but I went to Hunter College. I had no money and I couldn't speak English.

I've been a biker, I've been a convict, I've been a husband, father, and son.

It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.

If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed.

It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.

Every son quotes his father, in words and in deeds.

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.

I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.

My father has been a rock for me every since.

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.