Quotes About Family

My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.

In the past, my brain would never stop. Now I'm a father; the world no longer revolves around me. When I'm with Bronx, he's got my complete attention. He's the only thing that occupies my thoughts.

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

It's natural that anyone is compared to their father.

I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.

I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.

I've never been desperate to please my father.

Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.

What have you gotten me into?" I hissed at him. "Me? What have you gotten yourself into? Couldn't I have just picked you up at the police station for underage drinking, like most fathers?

My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding.

I always thought I would have boys, but as a father, when your kids are born and they're healthy and happy, that's the most important thing.

I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.

Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.

In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally common.

If the father is not straight naider will be the son.

The reality is that my stepfather was like a father to me and watching him die from a sudden heart attack was one of the hardest things I have ever gone through.

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game.

The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.

Children of those who have been incarcerated are five times more likely to go to prison than children of parents who have never been incarcerated. The sins of the father visiting the child.

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.