#father

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#be real #because #both #children #enough

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#been #boxing #business #father #had

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life. ↗

— Marion Jones

#father #involved #life #light #mom

You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people. ↗

— Norah Jones

#father #him #know #known #last

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

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