I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
Carlisle Floyd
My father was never anti-anything in our house.
Errol Flynn
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... →
Nick Flynn
For years before I became a father, I would try to spend as much time as I could with my friends who were parents and their kids. And I was really... →
I had to steel myself against this psychic devastation - to see your father on the street. It's hard enough to pick up somebody you don't... →
I'd always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired friends who had somehow figured out how to cross... →
I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family... →
Jane Fonda
I don't want to make a cheap analysis, but when you have, like I did, a father incapable of showing emotion, who spends his life telling you that... →
My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his... →
Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.