#father

Certainly, my father would not want to see me destroy myself in this business, as so many people in our family have been destroyed. I try to take good care of myself, but we are fighting the good fight, and the truth is powerful. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

#business #care #certainly #destroy #destroyed

There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy? ↗

— Will Smith

#come #doing #doing the right thing #father #fatherhood

When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer. ↗

— Will Smith

#engineer #father #growing #growing up #i

The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if he tries to shoot any of the stags, their antlers will tear him to pieces. ↗

— Georg Solti

#eldest #father #favorite #him #pieces

My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money. ↗

— James Green Somerville

#among #amounted #call #father #had

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#during #father #hammerstein #i #many

I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct. ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#back #big #big mistake #direct #father

At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863. ↗

— Carl Spitteler

#i #law #request #study #took

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#after #babies #best #doing #fathers

Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty! ↗

— Mario Puzo

#beauty