Quotes About Relationships

There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

I could pull all kinds of games on my mother. I couldn't pull any games on my father.

Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.

Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.

My father loved people, children and pets.

Well, I don't play heroes obviously. I never played the guy who gets the girl. It might be interesting to do a part where I was a father in a functional family.

If more husbands and fathers would put as much energy into their marriages and families as they do their jobs, the world would change.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.

Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.

When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit.

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.

I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed.

It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]

If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up. My father wouldn't have kissed my girlfriend; he would have raped her.

Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.