Quotes about father
father soon tells
I don't feel Swedish. In fact, my father tells me to get out of here as soon as I can. Lykke Li
father trying
I did everything that my father did in trying to find him because I didn't live with him, Liev Schreiber
father freud mother
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother. Germaine Greer
fathers land wales
Wales is the land of my fathers. And my fathers can have it. Dylan Thomas
father animal ice
I started following the news and seeing what was happening around the world with the polar ice caps melting and temperatures breaking records. I became concerned as an animal on this planet but also as a father. Don Cheadle
father would-be rooms
My father was a general manager with Hyatt, so we lived in the hotel so he would be close by if there were any problems. My mum was always adamant about us not abusing it. So I still had to clean my room. Housekeeping would never come and do it. Dianna Agron
father law missing
What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you dont protect it, you lose it. Dexter Scott King
father vanity said
My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?
father looks
Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do' Dhani Harrison
father betrayed feels
One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.
father healing emotional
I was very empty after my father passed away. It was an emotional time, as it would be for anyone, but to be in the studio every day was kind of cathartic and healing and it just seemed very natural to continue.
father men thinking
People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man.
father doctors
My father was a doctor. David Alan Grier
father korea polio
My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.
father thinking able
Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can’t know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can’t. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine. David Almond
father names ifs
My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.' Dave Chappelle
father food strange-places
For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all, he saves food. Cherry tomatoes, sausage biscuits, the olives plucked from other people's martinis --he hides these things in strange places until they are rotten. And then he eats them. David Sedaris
father successful white
There’s a lot I don’t tell my father when he calls asking after Amy. He wouldn’t understand that she has no interest in getting married and was, in fact, quite happy to break up with her live-in boyfriend, whom she replaced with an imaginary boyfriend named Ricky. The last time she was asked out by a successful bachelor, Amy hesitated before saying, ‘Thanks for asking, but I’m really not into white guys right now.
father drinking college
College is the best thing that can ever happen to you," my father used to say, and he was right, for it was there that I discovered drugs, drinking, and smoking..
father kids play
As a kid, I used to come to our offices and play under the desks of people I now work with, or who work for me. I would come in and play with fabrics and make little clothes for my Snoopy. People here feel like family. But if I couldn't make a difference, I wouldn't be here. My father wouldn't want me to be here. David Lauren
father law criminals
My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area. David Guterson
father kids errors
It's irrational to assume you can ever truly evaluate yourself as a good or bad human being. You will never have enough information.That "bad person" at work who torments you might be an excellent father to his kids. That other "bad person" at work who screwed up royally today? That error might later lead to a huge breakthrough. We will never have enough info to holistically evaluate a person and score them in totality as "bad" or "good." David D. Burns
father home sailing
Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of him at home sailing a big boat to Bermuda in his 20s. I still have it. David Crosby
fathers-day dad missing
The nicest Father's Day surprise of all for Dad would be if you handed him a box, and he unwrapped it, and there, inside, sitting on a bed of folded tissue, was the pair of his undershorts that somebody threw away six months ago (without asking Dad) because they had reached the stage where they were 3 percent undershorts and 97 percent holes. Dad misses those undershorts. They were his Faithful Undershorts Companion. Dave Barry
fathers-day mother commitment
Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it's so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying gifts for women. This is an area where many men do not have a clue. Exhibit A was my father, who was a very thoughtful man, but who once gave my mother, on their anniversary, the following token of his love, his commitment, and-yes-his passion for her: an electric blanket.
father thinking years
My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity. David Rubenstein
father want calligraphy
When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself. Cai Guo-Qiang
father home leaving
With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound. Buffalo Bill
fathers-day teenage love-you
Never love anything that can't love you back. Bruce Williams
father character
My father's a character. Bryan Adams
father nuts gone
If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought! Cesar Romero
father obsession trouble
All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers. Catherine Deneuve
father suits dignity
My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.' Cary Grant