539 quotes found
“I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.”
“The most important influence in my childhood was my father.”
“My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.”
“The child is father of the man.”
“My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.”
“Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.”
“My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.”
“You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.”
“I just wish I could understand my father.”
“If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.”
“As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.”
“My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.”
“My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons were...”
“There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.”
“A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.”
“My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.”
“I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.”
“When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.”
“My brothers always like to believe that my father pampered me and I am spoilt. While it is not true, they felt that way. As for my dad, I could not do anything wrong. So, if I did something wrong, ...”
“Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay...”
