Quotes About Family

I'm always showing pictures off. I have to be careful who I show them to because of who I am, obviously, but I'm a proud father.

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.

My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.

Just looking at me, I am a Black man. Born and bred, through and through. But I am also a lot of things. I am a father. I am a husband. I am a Christian. I am a comic book geek and I'm a creator.

I think that not being loved by your parents or not having a brother or not being liked at school or even wearing glasses can be a lot worse than having a famous father.

I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.

I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my autobiography.

A family needs a father to anchor it.

I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me.

Being the father of girls is a kind of illness, in its own way - since any guy who has tried to live in a house with a wife and two daughters is, without any doubt, going to go certifiably nuts.

It's really important for boys to have a father around, or a grandfather, or an uncle - a man they can really relate to who loves them, and who they know loves them.

You see things really different when your father is so intimately, so indisputably in charge of your continued existence on the planet.

It's interesting to be playing a father who's on the other side because that's not my world and not where I came from.

I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.

I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.

The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.

I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.

I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.

The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.

The De Bernières were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.