#father

My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child. ↗

— Antonio Villaraigosa

#bed #child #create #day #drunken

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#fatherhood #love #most #present #pretending

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#certain #child #comes #company #father

My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University. ↗

— James Cronin

#dorothy #father #greek #had #met

I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it's a search for how I can do things better, whether it's being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#believe #better #better man #father #finding

As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right? ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#get #grandfather #honey #more #right

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#death #death penalty #desire #driving #father

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week. ↗

— Mario Cuomo

#father #fifty #haven #i #me