My father was in the First World War.
Doris Lessing
My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.
I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
Jonathan Lethem
When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.
Michael Leunig
My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union.
In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows... →
Is a brazen and innocent confrontation with paternal authority an unbearably terrifying prospect to some? Are the consequences of a father's... →
When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?
Sam Levenson
At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional... →
Rita Levi-Montalcini
I told Mother of my decision to study medicine. She encouraged me to speak to Father... I began in a roundabout way... He listened, looking at me... →