Quotes About Growth

My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'

I need to start caring about myself if I'm going to be a proper 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.

I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father.

I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.

The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.

I have one regret: I wish I was a better father.

I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.

I realize that when I moved out of my father's house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was Word. It took years for my view to harden, To shrink him to human size.

It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

I didn't do too much. I came here (to The Magic Castle) and learned about magic. I read a book, but not his father's book. Sorry about that.

I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent.

I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.

Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.

People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

The child is the father of man.

It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the back of my father's car looking out the window, and nothing has changed in 25 years.

Either things grow and change or they die.

It's interesting to be playing a father who's on the other side because that's not my world and not where I came from.

...Then I got divorced and everything changed, and I became a father in a whole new way and found a whole new set of difficulties.