Quotes About Father

But had I not cut the cord? and now was I seeing what happens when there is no gravity. There is indeed nothing, nothing; you are just falling. My father had said once (or was it you?) that the only emotions worth having are ecstasy and despair. I thought - Well yes, but there is also a terror at this nothing.

I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about journey, maybe, but not the destination.

He still didn't think I was good enough for you. No father thinks any man is good enough for his daughter.

I know you've only ever known your father and me. And I love Jack, because he is your father. But there's another kind of love, Amanda. One that gives you the courage to be better than you are, not less than you are. One that makes you feel that anything is possible. I want you to know that you could have that. I want you to hold out for it.

Her father was dying, and he wanted her forgiveness.

As he lay on the couch, he reflected that he wanted to be the same kind of father someday.

I knew that my dad was a good man, a kind man, and though he'd led a wounded life, he'd done the best he could in raising me. Never once had he raised his hand in anger

There are a lot of people in the world, I think, who could learn a lot from my dad.

Your Dad Loves You, I Can Tell, Even If You Can't.

I grew up in Ireland, in the Wicklow Mountains just behind Dublin, and got a job in a Volkswagen garage when I was 14. I did it in the summer for about five weeks. My father thought it would be a great idea because I was really into bikes.

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

The Rock now the hottest thing. He come from wrestling background. Father, mother, grandfather all from wrestling business: 2-3 generations. I watch his movie. He great movie star, and I be wrestling with his father Rocky Johnson. I love them.

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

My father made sure of discipline, but my mum, she was serious business.

My father, he left the family when I was 13, so mum looked after us.

I became a music director because I never saw my father get the success he deserved.

Everybody thinks that I would go to Miley and my dad for advice, and I get that they're very successful and very big in the music industry, but I look at them as my sister and my dad.

I always have been very musically influenced because of my dad. He had a very big record collection, so I dabbled in different genres.

As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

My dad is my biggest influence on me as a musician, even though he's not a musician.

My father was a musician, so I feel like falling into this career was a bit inevitable.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.

The real Liberace - and I'll preface this by saying that I didn't know the real one - was a man who didn't come from much. His father left him and his family for another woman. His father was a musician, which I thought was pretty interesting.