Quotes About Reflection

The similarities between me and my father are different.

Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.

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's important to learn from the past and people's experiences, not only from my father's [Pablo Escobar] as a drug dealer, but from others that have ended just the way he did.

Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain?

A moment might be a thousand different things.

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

A lot of people ask me about my father's passing when I was young, which I'm never comfortable with. I invariably move around that subject.

My father's ashes are not yet interred.strangely, I find the fact that he isn't properly laid to rest helps me when I'm doingthis play.

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.

The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though uttered by never so intimate a friend.

My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.

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

It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff; a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

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

But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.

Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!

Only after my father's death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In a sense, I had to turn him into a character, a figure I could control through language.

I look a lot like my father when he was my age.

I'm in constant inner dialogue with my father still.

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.

right now,I am my father

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