Father Quotes - page 88

My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her. (Gregory Corso)
My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets. View quote
Gregory Corso
I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic. View quote
Diane Lane
When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time. View quote
Diane Lane
My father said that love at first sight should send you running, if you know what's good for you. It's your dark pieces having instant recognition with their dark pieces, he says. You're an idiot if you think it means you've met your soul mate. So I was an idiot. View quote
Deb Caletti
I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy. View quote
Deborah Moggach
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. View quote
David Almond
Her father sagged as relief spread through him. "I thought something awful was happening.” She frowned. "Something awful was happening. It could have got stuck in my hair. View quote
Derek Landy
My father started me singing in church. View quote
DeForest Kelley
I am very comfortable with conflict, be it of the legal or mortal kind. My father was a mediator, a bridge maker. I am a grave maker. View quote
J.R. Ward
I see you looking at my cookies,' my father said to Morelli. 'Don't even think about it. Go get your own cookies. (Janet Evanovich)
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?" View quote
Janet Fitch
The best way to be a good father to your children is to be a good husband to their mother. View quote
Jay E. Adams
When I was young, before school, my father would wake me up and we would go running together. A love of being physical, being active and being outside was something he instilled in me. View quote
Jake Gyllenhaal
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. View quote
Jake Gyllenhaal
Like so many things Henry had wanted in life -- like his father, his marriage, his life -- it had arrived a little damaged. Imperfect. But he didn't care, this was all he'd wanted. Something to hope for, and he'd found it. It didn't matter what condition it was in. View quote
Jamie Ford
Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make. View quote
James Gandolfini
I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you - my father taught me. View quote
Jason Momoa
I want to be remembered as, I hope, an amazing husband and a great father. View quote
Jason Momoa
I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider. View quote
Jennifer Egan
For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else. (Jennifer Lynch)
Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story ... your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if we're lucky, our stories join into one, and for a while, we're less alone. View quote
Jess Walter
In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on. View quote
Jessica Lange
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses. View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too. View quote
John Lithgow