Quotes About Father

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

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

Bush made a point of emphasizing to me that unlike his father's administration, his was one of significant "walk-in access" to the Oval Office.

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

I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?"

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

My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong.

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've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he had in music and all his musical skills. I finally managed to make that my profession.

My father was not able to get all the vinyl he used to listen to with me. He couldn't travel as he did it because of his profession as a diplomatic career.

I don't like weeds! My father made me mow weeds and cut weeds when I was a kid. I've hated weeds ever since I was 12 years old. I'll never go in the weeds! I'll never gonna take you in the weeds.

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.

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.

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

You're living in a delusion, based on your legendary father.

My father was a beautiful man.

In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.

... finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

..my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understand me. The town he lived in and the town I lived in were not the same.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

I have a very down-to-earth father. My wife is an actress and famous herself is more down-to-earth than anyone I know.