Quotes About Father

One day, you have a father who's always around, and then the next day, he's gone. I was too young to comprehend that. I actually thought he was going to come back.

My dad used to work at IBM, so we used to get discounts on computers and stuff, and I did have a ThinkPad.

Dad was very into electronics, robotics and computers, so I was interested in what he was doing.

I didn't know it, but my father had a brain tumour. Everything happened very fast. Within a year, he was gone. Because I was so young, I didn't completely understand the concept of death.

I think the first concert I attended was Coldplay with my dad when I was around eight years old.

My dad took me to loads of concerts when I was growing up.

My mom always told me one of the reasons that she was really happy in her life was that, if Dad never worked again, she was confident that she could support the family.

I am Mr. McMahon's son. I always had a feeling that it was me. Now that it's been confirmed I could not be happier!

Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.

New York is the center of the world. I grew up in Connecticut, outside of the city, and my father commuted to the city for work.

I am never going to be able to rest easy in having established a posthumous connection to my father. I'll always be groping for what I can't have.

While I loved my family, I would always have this association with my father. I would always be coming up against that conservatism. It was just liberating to be in London.

Music's always been a big part of my life. Because of my father, I was always surrounded by music and musicians, and in school, I was in the chorus, and I played various instruments.

My husband has an outstanding record in promoting opportunity for women and the women that he surrounds himself in his staff and the women that he has promoted throughout his career. He's the father of three daughters. He's obviously a husband who's been very supportive of a very active wife with her own career.

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

I used to work on a survey crew, because my dad was an engineer, but he was also a surveyor.

The confidence in my ability to be a performer, a steeliness about survival... I learnt all those things from my dad.

Growing up in the Philippines, I wanted to be so much like my dad. He taught me simple survival stuff.

I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived.

My father would have been spectacularly ill-suited to working for an institution of any kind, and I suspect that, to a lesser degree, that's true of me, too.

I got suspended from school once, and my dad came to the school and whooped me in front of everyone. I didn't want that to happen again, didn't want to be embarrassed like that. The guys that I ran with, they respected that and respected my dad too.

'Rainwater' was particularly special because it was a complete departure from the suspense novels. It's set in the Great Depression and based on an incident that occurred when my dad was a boy.

Jim Swan was my father, but Reg Barnes was my dad.

My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.