“It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.”
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“My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.”
“My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They'd always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh.”
“Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.”
“When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.”
“The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.”
“I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.”
“It's just really making sure I am doing the best job I can do as a dad. I do think that is my No. 1 job.”
“My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.”
“My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.”
“My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.”
“My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.”
“My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.”
“I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.”
“Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.”
“I was lucky to have my dad in my life. As crazy as things got, I always had him to put his hand on my shoulder.”
“Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.”
“My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.”
“So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.”
“My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.”
“My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.”
“The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.”
“I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.”
“As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.”