Quotes About Family

A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.

A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.

I've always played for the acceptance of my godfather (Willie Mays) and father (Bobby Bonds).

What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. Its just remarkable.

I hadn't thought about the fact that I was a foster child but, did notice that (in films) I'm often without a mother or father or both.

My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye.

Before you ignore another homeless person on the street, just remember that that could be someone's father or someone's mother and they have a story.

I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband.

When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?

Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.

He was a father. That's what a father does.Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might endure for a lifetime.

[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.

When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me.

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'

But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.

I admire my father greatly.

My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.

Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!