#father

The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#father #important #important thing #life #me

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#dominated #family #father #mother #passionate

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#admired #arnold #bennett #deathbed #father

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#death #father #got #him #his

My father was always so mingled with rage at his life. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#father #his #life #mingled #rage

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#dialogue #engaged #father #had #i

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#constantly #died #excuses #father #great

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father. ↗

— Wendy Liebman

#dog #father #her #i #kill

Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#atheist #combating #father #forms #his

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#decorative #grandfather #musician #painter