My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story.

People tell me I look like my father. I’ve never seen my dad, so does that mean I look invisible?

Could you love an alcoholic cruel father, or a prostitute amoral mother? You could never love them, because they do not give you anything, but take your honour instead. Neither could you, if your native...

In expression of Fatherhood I evolve to become – all I was destined, to be.

When you’re little, your father is your hero. Mine was. Then it all becomes more complicated.

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

My name is Monika Ora Moniker, but you can call me MOM. Or dad will do just fine.

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration.

I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.

My father was an agnostic.

Si no quiere abrazarme, entonces que tampoco se acerque para golpearme.

Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be...

A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. “She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. She stamped her little foot at me.”He pointed down to her toes as if she were...

Two blades clashed, ringing like a bell. Like all small boys, Philip thought his father was invincible; and this was the moment when he learned the truth.

I have the legacy of my father and his nocturnal automatic waking up. But I like those periods. I immediately have a different vision of humanity and my life.

Damn straight.” My heart feels like one of Scottie’s clogs clomping down the hall. I don’t know why I became so angry.

It is the duty of every father… to write fairy tales for his children.

While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.

My father went to work every day, and it’s my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won’t be so good, but I have to go to work.

The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite.

My Dad has been a feminist, way before I learnt how to spell the word.

I think one of the sweetest proofs we have of the Father’s loving care for us is that we often find in this life the things which gave us great happiness below.

I decided I would go with them, but it would be at my father’s house that I would eat. I would share his food, and his poverty.

Was it too much to expect the rest of the world to care about grammar or pay attention to details?

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don’t even know about, which is really sad.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things – whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job,...

It was the true father of all the variety shows.

I’d rather be David Ladd’s father than Alan Ladd any day.

Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.

My father was an airline pilot, so we travelled more spontaneously than a lot of families. On a Thursday, we could decide to go somewhere like Barbados the next day for a long weekend.

Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

It’s important to have a fallback and other activities that keep you interested. I started acting when I was about nine or 10 years old. My father was a midtown firefighter so I always wanted...

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father’s craft.

He doesn’t have sex with sheep—he sleeps with scapegoats. He is my father, and I haven’t seen him since before I was born.

The biggest rebellion I could’ve ever had with my father would be to work in a bank. He would have disowned me. As long as I was doing something where I didn’t have to wear...

If you are a good parent, please continue to be a good one. But if you are bad parent, today is a great new beginning for you to start a great new chapter of parenthood.

I am somebody’s son, and I know a guy I call “Dad.” Those two things are unrelated.

I bring this up because in writing some thoughts about a father, or not having a father, I feel as though I’m writing a book about a troll under a bridge or a dragon. For...

My father always said, ‘Malala will be free as a bird.’

I figured this staying up meant something. Maybe it was loss or love or some other word that we say when it’s too fucking late but the boys weren’t into melodrama. They heard that shit...

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

A man after God’s own heart is…a man who yearns to please God,a man who desires to grow spiritually,a man who had a heart that obeys.

Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot,’ billed as ‘the laugh sensation of two continents,’ made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one...

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

I will not be my father’s dog.

Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical...

I think Dad wanted to feel the pain, to feel his body cry, an urgent reminder that he was still alive. I pretended not to notice.

New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won’t hit Charles’s mate in front of his father.

I think we all live dichotomies. I’m a father of three boys and a loyal homebody sort of husband and father. And yet I act in movies and write and direct movies.