Father Quotes
The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.
I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he's been known to be a Wikileaker.
But I know for a fact that had I had a father, I'd have some discipline. I'd have more confidence. Your mother cannot calm you down the way a man can. Your mother can't reassure you the way a man can. My mother couldn't show me where my manhood was. You need a man to teach you how to be a man.
My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.
Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner. There ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation.
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.
My father was a cotton farmer first and - but he didn't have any land or what land he had, he lost it in the Depression. So he worked as a woodman and cut pulpwood for the paper mills, rode the rails in boxcars going from one harvest to another to try to make a little money picking fruit or vegetables.
When I was 17 - 16, my father and I cut wood all day long and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood.
My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.
I love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.
I've always been dead set against festivals, really suspicious and wary.
I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to the world in a new way.
My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn't as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.
Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight of being a servant.
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.
My Father's Eyes' is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes.
Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.
My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.
My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad.
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