#father

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#despair #drive #equanimity #father #him

My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#anything #appear #asked #day #education

My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#am #army #beating #boxer #boxing

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#beacon #before #father #film #journal

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian. ↗

— David Johansen

#irish #librarian #mother #new #new york

Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built. ↗

— David Johansen

#built #father #i #lived #mother

My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#chicago #died #father #him #i

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#children #easier #father #real #than

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#abuse #attacking #brutal #child #child abuse

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#cheat #cheated #could #did #father