#father

Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women. ↗

— Reynolds Price

#children #even #even now #fathers #feminism

My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918. ↗

— James Rainwater

#civil #died #engineer #epidemic #father

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#father #father figure #figure #find #guy

We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father. ↗

— Janet Reno

#boy #each #father #his #longest

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#begging #father #film #four #grandfather

Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family. ↗

— Sam Rivers

#both #cause #family #father #grandfather

A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that. ↗

— Jake Roberts

#child #comes #cruel #father #hope

Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money. ↗

— Cesar Romero

#became #big #business #bust #career

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome. ↗

— Isabella Rossellini

#david lynch #elephant #father #gave #loved

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#because #daughter #done #everything #father