I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
A father’s disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
That is the thankless position of the father in the family – the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.
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.
I’m a father. It isn’t just my life any more. I don’t want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.
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.
I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.
My father-in-law gets up at 5 o’clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don’t know why there’s this big rush to do this.
I just wish I could understand my father.
Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can’t be.
