#father

My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#cinematography #dentist #doing #father #his

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#despair #drive #equanimity #father #him

He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge. ↗

— Daniel D. Palmer

#finds #god #him #judge #laws

My father was a very contradictory man. ↗

— John Malkovich

#father #man #very

My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me. ↗

— John Malkovich

#father #influence #me #strong

Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack. ↗

— John Malkovich

#actually #been #brother #grandfather #i

Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not? ↗

— LeBron James

#am #being #believe #big #commitment

My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#aircraft #come #did #father #hard

No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him. ↗

— John Irving

#adult #am #anything #could #cousin

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. ↗

— Washington Irving

#become #brothers #child #desert #endures