“Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.”
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“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”
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“The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.”
“And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.”
“I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.”
“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”
“The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.”
“All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.”
“Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.”
“My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.”
“The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.”
“My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.”
“I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.”
“I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.”
“If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.”
“I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.”
“I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.”
“For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.”
“I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.”
“I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well - obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.”
“More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.”
“My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.”
“My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East.”
“As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.”
“I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o'clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.”