Father Quotes

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that. Alan Alda
Mother Try Father Signs Before Must Until She Six Shown
You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque. Alan Alda
You Memories Father Town Know Another Going Burlesque Earliest Earliest Memories
We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface. Alan Bennett
Myself Family Mother Father First Our Miner Paper Miners Rather Had Suppose First One Were Than Hands Artists Urge Really Who Express
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands. Alan Bradley
Father Books Favorite Delighted Had Volumes Putting Forbidden Read Reader Been Child Hands Frivolous Grandchildren Grandmother Who Believed Her Early
My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making what he should have. He had to split it with five brothers. So I made up my mind: I was going to go on my own and make my own money. Alan C. Greenberg
Money Father Mind Thought Made Own Brothers My Own Split Never Had He Make Making Go Brains Up Five Going Six Should Youngest
My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and movie parties. She put me through private school, Horace Mann, in Riverdale. She sent me to camp so that I would learn to compete. She was a lioness, and I was her cub. Alan Furst
Work Me School Mother Father Young Would Ruth Through Put Parties She Learn Cub Private Camp Private School Selling Office Died Movie Theater Sent Her Compete
I have an uncle who lived to 101, and my father died at 95, so I have a second career ahead of me. Alan Gerry
Me Father Uncle Died Who Lived Second Career
I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go to the hospital. He died when I was nine years old on the same day that Franklin Roosevelt died; it was his 45th birthday. Alan J. Heeger
Day Birthday Heart Memory Strong Old Father Nine Weak Franklin Franklin Roosevelt Hospital Had He Go His Years Same Died Roosevelt
My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.' Alan King
Me Failure Smart Old Father Hero Tough Big Considered Dreamer Guy Tough Guy He Poland Like Himself Always Line His Handbags End Up Lady Who
As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father. Alan King
Better Father Parent
When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about. Alan King
Time Oppression Father Thought First About He Wrote Talked Read Because First Time Dickens Things Jewish
My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.' Alan King
Me Father Out All-Out He Said Leave Helped Here
Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps. Alan Ladd
Son Father Own Every Footsteps His Off Gets Start Chance
He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that. Alan Lomax
Great Father Country Tremendous Way Out About Through Songs He Great Songs Reaction Learned Felt Audiences Were His Them Then Sang Found
Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit. Alan Shearer
Best Father Father Figure Out Spirit About Get Trying Manager Them Creating Figure Team Team Spirit Basically
My advice to Robin is listen to your heart, do what you feel. Follow your heart in love and marriage as you would in careers, and you'll be fine. Robin has a great heart. He's a fabulous father. Alan Thicke
Love Great You Heart Marriage Father Follow Your Heart Advice Would Fine Follow Fabulous He Feel Robin Listen Your Careers
In 'The Goods,' I'm Ed Helms' dad, and I was known all those years as Kirk Cameron's father, and now I'm known as Robin Thicke's father, so I find myself playing myself a lot and, frankly, living up to expectations of what the public's image of me is. Alan Thicke
Myself Me Father Living Those Frankly Find Kirk Goods Robin Known Years Cameron Lot Up Expectations Public Dad Now Image Playing
It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different. Alan Vega
Me Old Father Year Say Easy Well Boy Got Still Year-Old Person Same Different Different Person Now
My father was placid and easygoing. He owned a small shoe store where I helped out on Saturdays. I think he'd have been pleased if I'd made a career of working in the shoe store. But my mother was ambitious. She encouraged us to read books, and she pushed us toward a musical education. Alan W. Livingston
Education Mother Father Made Think Books Pleased Musical Out Easygoing Small Pushed He Toward She Read Been Encouraged Ambitious Shoe Owned Where Store Us Working Helped Saturdays Career
Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.' Albert Brooks
Age Father Young Say Though Comedian Young Age Want Cool Radio Even
My roots were in acting. That's all I wanted to be. Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.' Albert Brooks
Age Father Young Say Though Comedian Were Young Age Want Wanted Roots Acting Cool Radio Even
I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me. Albert Gubay
Me Father Had He Very Sisters Them Hard Two Soft
My father would chaperone at high-school dances, and the toughest guy in the high school used to want to fight my father. My father broke his hand on a guy's head once in school. Alec Baldwin
Fight School Father Dances Once Broke High Would High School Guy Toughest Head His Hand Want Used
My father had a difficult relationship with success, maybe because he never obtained it. But he was very wise about it because he observed how you can become rotten fruit once you get power. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Success Relationship You Wise Fruit Father Power Become Difficult Once About Never Had He Observed Obtained Because How Very Get Maybe Rotten
My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again. Alejandro Jodorowsky
Family Father Monster See Never Again Them Cut
When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot. Alejandro Jodorowsky
Father Three Cried Later Cat Days Cry Lot Did Died
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