#father

I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#clock #detroit #down #eastern #father

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad. ↗

— Beau Bridges

#father #great #importantly #most #teacher

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#basically #beat #bright #drawn #father

I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#collection #effects #father #finished #holiday

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#am #children #father #good #good father

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#commonly #considering #fatherless #fathers #general

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#convinced #dancing #everybody #family #father

My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#brought #did #either #father #his

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say. ↗

— Diane Cilento

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I always saw myself as really ugly. My father even told me I was ugly because I would shave my head and look like a boy. ↗

— Asia Argento

#because #boy #even #father #head