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Father Quotes

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

Life Father Achievement Trying Say

My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.

Change Father Generation Fighting

I've always loved writing, and my heritage has been interesting, growing up in a bi-cultural family. My mother being Vietnamese and my father being French, it's like an East-West meeting in my house.

Mylene Dinh-Robic

Family Father Mother Growing Up

I remember when I was very young, I had a fever - a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And in the days, I stayed alone with the maid. I only had my father's books with me. They were fantasy books about ghosts, and also books by Edgar Allen Poe that made a forever impression on me.

Father Alone Me Remember Long Young

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Life Family Father Daughter Death

Who would ever have thought that Robert Ludlum would have become the father of modern action cinema?

Father Action Thought Cinema Become

My father danced a lot. He was called 'the French Fred Astaire.'

Father French He Fred Astaire Fred

I shouldn't have to worry any time my father walks outside the front door of our home.

Father Home Time Door Worry Outside

I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who was from Southern Virginia. They migrated to Washington and I wouldn't even exist if it were not for that migration. And I brought her back to Georgia, both my parents, actually.

Isabel Wilkerson

Father Mother Parents Back Rome She

Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.

Father Time Death I Am Artist True

I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.

Father Mother Food Parents Proud

It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.

Father College Me Believe Shy Hard

As its citizens humbly recommit to an acceptance of guidance from the God of our fathers, our nation will once again see the miraculous resurrection of the proud, responsible, visionary black father. And with him, his family and community will be lifted.

Family Father God Community Proud

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it.

Family Father Mother Great Child

My father was a director, and my mother and grandparents were actors, so I spent a great deal of my time as a teenager trying to get away from the theatre.

Marianne Elliott

Father Mother Great Time Theatre

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Father Memories Illness His Main

My father is very Jean Valjean. He's what I would call a great example of a religious person. He is a deeply thoughtful man whose religion is in his deeds way more than anything else. It's not talked about that much.

Father Great Man Religion Thoughtful

When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Work Father Live Said Overcome Real

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

Father Slavery Depend Profession

I was born and raised in Liberia in West Africa. My mother is Sierra Leonean, and my father's Liberian. I grew up at a time when there was a lot of civil unrest in both countries, so when something would happen in Liberia, we'd go to Sierra Leone, and when something would happen in Sierra Leone, we'd go back to Liberia. We moved to save our lives.

Richelieu Dennis

Father Mother Time Back Born Go

I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

Father Mother Brother Sister Lost

Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.

Father Vision Think Famous Uncle He

I had a dream as a young boy to be Olympic champion in boxing, and that's what I focused on with my father - making it a reality.

Vasyl Lomachenko

Father Champion Reality Dream Young

I'm not traditional at all. It's not that I'm against marriage; it just never mattered that much to me. If I was dating someone who getting married was very important to them, then absolutely. I'd have no problem. I love the idea of finding someone to be a great father figure to Jasper and to share my life with.

Georgina Bloomberg

Life Love Marriage Father Great Me

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