Quotes About Father

I knew my mother was in the process of becoming, or trying to become, "an intellectual," because my father often threw this term at her as a form of insult during their arguments.

Yet Tracey was steadfast and loyal to his memory, far more likely to defend her absent father than I was to speak kindly of my wholly attentive one.

I thought it odd that my father should travel eight miles to Lambert's for comfort when Lambert seemed already to have suffered the kind of abandonment my father feared so badly

Always the fear of consequences. Always this terrible inertia. What he was about to do to his father was so huge, so colossal, that the consequences were inconceivable - he couldn't imagine a moment occurring after that act. Only blankness. Nothingness. Something like the end of the world. And facing the end of the world, or even just the end of the year, had always given Josh a strangely detached feeling.

My father was sent to get the shoes. The pink of the leather turned out to be a lighter shade than I'd hoped, it looked like the underside of a kitten, and the sole was a dirty gray cat's tongue, and there were no long pink satin ribbons to criss-cross over the ankles, no, only a sad little elastic strap which my father had sewn on himself.

In some ways, I've been left with this great 'idolic' image of my father, but there's a sense of absence, too. You miss his advice and, also, his getting to know the person I have become.

I know that the absence of my father in my life had its cost.

I do love my dad, we have a great relationship now but there were years when he was absent and it was my mum that raised me.

I look back on how I was as a child, I had a wonderful mom and an absent father, but I still had a great childhood.

I would accompany my dad to his film's sets. I especially remember going with him on the sets of 'Vijaypath.'

I have seen my father and his journey and how he got his first film. That was a sense of achievement for him.

There was this moment in my father's house where he said, 'My wife, she never had any kids and I never had any kids.' Yeah... He had never acknowledged my existence.

I was very proud of my father, and I admired him, but I always thought he was more interesting than the shows he was working on.

I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television;' it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.

My father is gone, and I miss him as only an adoring daughter can.

I got that sense of travel and adventure from my father.

In terms of playing for my father, that was an amazing experience that me and him got to do. But that was that.

Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy.

My father, to me, is an important piece in American history.

My dad is amazing. He has, like, ancient Chinese skills.

One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I'm going to write a book about my father.'

I appeared in several of Dad's films - at the time, I didn't really appreciate how great a director he was.

My father was an architect.

My father believed in armed struggle.