Quotes About Family

We're Democrats [with my father]. So, of course he would [support me]. Absolutely.

...Then I got divorced and everything changed, and I became a father in a whole new way and found a whole new set of difficulties.

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

When I was ten, my pa told me never to talk to strangers. We haven't spoken since.

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.

My father's sister never married in order to raise me.

Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

Father, thanks for reaching out and lovingly,saying that you've always been proud of me,I needed to feel that so desperately,you're always alive inside of me.

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king." "Yes." "Unorthodox.

It means everything. Making my father happy, that's my biggest joy.

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.

My father belonged to a Jewish social club.

As a husband and as a father of girls, I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice of sanity required to run for office. The limited reward for public service cannot blunt the cost.

The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.

Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.

My father is a very theatrical and dramatic person.

Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family.

[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.

I would like to understand my father.

I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.