#father

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#father #figure #five #had #hard

My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#ah #arrived #brother #eight #father

I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America through civil rights, women's rights, equal justice, and they've passed that on to their children and grandchildren. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#children #civil #civil rights #equal #equal justice

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#did #encouraged #father #grew #household

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#fathers #orphan #thousand #victory

I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#beautiful girls #desire #father #i #inherited

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#dad #did #emotionally #father #feeling

I know whatever my father did, in his own way, he still loved me. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#father #his #i #know #loved

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#conservative #father #ferociously #him #his

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#appreciative #fact #father #forgiving #good