It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
Dawn French
I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent... →
Doug E. Fresh
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Sigmund Freud
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
Nancy Friday
My father started his own business, and before that was a freelance lecturer, and my friends are artists and musicians; they don't have real jobs... →
Rupert Friend
My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come... →
Lynette Fromme
What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
Calvin Trillin
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
Robert Frost
My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.
Sadie Frost
I was a very defiant child, and my father encouraged that. He wanted me to be as wild and creative as possible and didn't believe in disciplining... →