Quotes About Connection

I dig my father. I wish he could open his eyes and dig me.

Old as he was, he still missed his daddy sometimes.

The biggest gift on Father's Day is if I can be with all my kids.

When I'm walking with my father through the woods, and we reach a place where you see so far that your ego suddenly shrinks because you are so touched by the dimension of your surroundings.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.

I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me.

It's really important for boys to have a father around, or a grandfather, or an uncle - a man they can really relate to who loves them, and who they know loves them.

When I was a boy I was my father.

I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.

Blue was awfully fond of her father, considering she'd never met him.

Father, thanks for reaching out and lovingly,saying that you've always been proud of me,I needed to feel that so desperately,you're always alive inside of me.

The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.

My father and I, we finally saw each other eye to eye and I think he's seeing me as a man, and I'm seeing him as the father he's always been.

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.

My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.

[Steven Sebring] presence was also nice for my children, who, having just lost their father, quite naturally craved warm male attention. They gravitated to him right away.

My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.

All the way from the first thing that I can remember, like our Victrola - a wind-up record player - and my grandfather's crystal radio, and my father's shortwave radio.

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

My voice as a filmmaker is always about boys searching for their fathers. And not only boys, but all children looking for those figures in their lives.

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

Green has always been my mom's favorite color. My father, aunt and I have gotten her jade, emerald, and peridot pieces over the years, and we always seem to be on the lookout.

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.