Quotes About Father

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.

My father would talk to me about the moon, and to me it was mysterious and poetic, like a large, beautiful, honey-colored pearl.

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.

My dad always pointed out Louis Armstrong's pad when we passed by there. And me and my dad were both proud Louis Armstrong was from New Orleans.

I don't know if my father realizes this, but I remember sitting there watching 'Apocalypse Now,' watching Pacino in 'Scarface' and watching James Dean in 'East of Eden' with him. And him he's not in the arts at all just pointing out 'the greats.'

I love it that my father is such a classical musician and such a traditionalist, and at the same time has had a wild life and a crazy time.

My father didn't do a lot of direct education. My mother was the direct educator. She would put on these movies on American Movie Classics when we got cable, after my parents got divorced, which took like four or five years.

Dad wanted me to act because it was a clever way of boosting my confidence.

My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.

My father was a very clever man. My mother was not clever. An extraordinary woman, but simple.

I have a very close relationship with my father. We're in no way estranged.

Mandela is just the eternal man. You want that man to be around forever. It's the closest thing we have to God, I think. He's the father of mankind, almost.

My dad worked in the IT industry, although I haven't got a clue what he did. He always tells me but it just goes over my head.

People were saying I should work with a real coach, someone who has experience. But my father has been working with me since I was 12.

My dad was a really big baseball guy who helped coach me and thought the game should be played the right way.

Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore.

With 'The Sea,' I was just thinking about loss, about the impact losing your father would have on you as a child, how one event that big could colour your life, bleed into everything else and force you into a certain shape.

My dad is a huge 'Archie' comics fan.

Looking back, I realize my favorite stories weren't in books, they were in comics. On top of being a history enthusiast, my father was also a comics fan, and he kept his stash in the top drawer of his dresser, in easy reach of a kid making a beeline to the bathroom.

My father would be an amazing, amazing commander in chief.

Many world champions compare themselves to my father.

My dad's so likeable, you wouldn't feel in competition with him. If any boyfriends have ever felt that, they're long gone.

My dad is kind of a quiet guy and he keeps to himself a little bit. But he was a competitor at whatever he did, and it kind of carried on with me.