#father

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#first #five #i #longing #old

The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#also #beginnings #came #eight #father

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#bed #child #corrupting #corruption #father

In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths. ↗

— Mary Antin

#conducted #day #evening #father #first

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#any #bottles #completely #father #finding

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

#first #fortitude #i #just #learned

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

#actor #always #being #father #going

If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#fathers #get #i #i do #kids

I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever. ↗

— Peter Berg

#been #fan #father #forever #historian

I wanted to grow up to be just like my father. ↗

— Michael Bergin

#grow #grow up #i #just #like