Father Quotes - Page 23

• One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take us before my graduate studies in Canada and finding that the stream I had gone swimming in wasn’t there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.

  Vandana Shiva

  Swimming, Apples, Mountain

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• The Chipko activists have always been close to my parents, since my father was among the few forestry officials who supported them within the bureaucracy. And I was involved with the Chipko movement in my student days.

  Vandana Shiva

  Parent, Movement, Students

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• The reason that stepmothers are often the bad guy in fairy tales is because people died in childbirth, all the time, so fathers remarried and there would be a struggle between the children and the new wife, in terms of who would inherit what.

  Chris Weitz

  Children, Struggle, Wife

  Source: collider.com

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• I mean, her father was an alcoholic, and her mother was the suffering wife of a man who she could never predict what he would do, where he would be, who he would be. And it's sort of interesting because Eleanor Roosevelt never writes about her mother's agony. She only writes about her father's agony. But her whole life is dedicated to making it better for people in the kind of need and pain and anguish that her mother was in.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Mother, Pain, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Her [Eleanor Roosevelt] father was the love of her life. Her father always made her feel wanted, made her feel loved, where her mother made her feel, you know, unloved, judged harshly, never up to par. And she was her father's favorite, and her mother's unfavorite. So her father was the man that she went to for comfort in her imaginings.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Mother, Men, Comfort

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think Eleanor Roosevelt always had a most incredible comfort writing letters. I mean, she was in the habit of writing letters. And that's where she allowed her fantasies to flourish. That's where she allowed her emotions to really evolve. And that's where she allowed herself to express herself really fully, and sometimes whimsically, very often romantically. And it really starts with her letters to her father, who is lifelong her primary love.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And one always has to pause to wonder how much you have to drink to die at 34. And he was a really tragic father. I mean, he was absolutely unreliable. He was absolutely involved with various people. He had outside families, outside children, outside wives. He made his wife's life miserable. And she [Eleanor Roosevelt]ignored all of his faults and retained this sense of him as the perfect father.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Children, Mean, Reality

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's interesting to me that really one of the first things she [Eleanor Roosevelt]did as First Lady was to collect her father's letters and publish a book called The Letters of My Father, essentially, hunting big game, The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt. And it really was an act of redemption, really one of her first acts of redemption as she entered the White House. She was going to redeem her father's honor. And publishing his letters, reconnecting with her childhood really fortified her to go on into the difficult White House years.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Book, Hunting, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think her Grandmother Hall gave her a great sense of family love, and reassurance. Her grandmother did love her, like her father, unconditionally. And despite the order and the discipline - and home at certain hours and out at certain hours and reading at certain hours - there was a surprising amount of freedom. Eleanor Roosevelt talks about how the happiest moments of her days were when she would take a book out of the library, which wasn't censored.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Book, Reading, Home

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think FDR was very dashing and charming and debonair, and probably reminded her of her father. A great bon-vivant. He loved to party. He loved to sing. He loved to have fun. And he wrote beautiful letters, just as her father did, which - alas and alack - Eleanor Roosevelt destroyed. But she refers to his beautiful letters. And she was charmed by him.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Beautiful, Fun, Party

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• And in the same way, FDR's not much of a father. Although the children in all their memoirs really talk about what a fun-loving guy Dad was, and how brooding and unhappy Mom was. The children sort of blame it all on the mother. Well, this is kind of standard and typical, and aggrieved Eleanor Roosevelt that she was not a happier mother. She wanted to be a happier mother. And I must say, she was a happier grandmother.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Mom, Mother, Children

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I played piano. I've always liked piano. My father played piano. Actually, to be fair, the sound of the harpsichord did annoy him a bit, and I thought, how can I annoy Dad? I'll play the harpsichord.

  Mahan Esfahani

  Dad, Play, Piano

  "How To Annoy Your Dad: Play The Harpsichord". Interview with Robert Siegel, wrti.org. June 12, 2015.

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• I hadn't made that movie before and when I ever met the real Joy Mangano, which happened because De Niro insisted we meet her and her father, that's what she felt like to us. She impressed us with her quiet, serene authority with herself.

  David O. Russell

  Real, Joy, Quiet

  "How Director David O. Russell Discovered 'Joy'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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• There are a lot of things my mother taught me and helped me and disciplined me and made sure I stayed on the right track. And there are a ton of things that only my father could have taught me.

  Richard Sherman

  Mother, Track, Taught

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• It's an awesome feeling being a father, because you never think you can fall in love with something so quickly. It was almost immediate.

  Richard Sherman

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I think previously, when fathers and sons argued with each other, they would still face each other and face each other's feelings, but now, the relationships between people has become much more abstracted. I think, actually, in China, the gulf that exists between the pre- and post-internet generations is more vast.

  Jia Zhangke

  Son, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I confess a couple who have kids, a married couple, I ask, 'how many children do you have?' Some get worried and think the priest will ask why I don't have more. I would make a second question, 'Do you play with your children?' The majority say, 'but father, I have no time. I work all day.'

  Pope Francis

  Children, Couple, Kids

  Pope Francis' In-Flight Press Conference from Mexico to Rome, www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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• I read Stephen King as a junior high schooler. My father introduced me to Stephen King far too young, which I'm very grateful for now.

  Bridget Carpenter

  Kings, Grateful, High School

  Source: collider.com

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• In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally common.

  Robert Paul Weston

  Children, Europe, Causes

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• My father was working on his Ph.D. on Danish choral music - the Danish choral music of Carl Nielsen - so over there to do research.

  Pete Docter

  Research, Choral Music, Danish

  "It's All In Your Head: Director Pete Docter Gets Emotional In 'Inside Out'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 10, 2015.

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• It's a whole nother aspect of this life that most people have no idea about. There's the loved ones, the wives, the girlfriends, the children. Some of the people out here are fathers and mothers. Whether you mean to or not, you end up neglecting your family in a lot of ways. Even if you do your best to keep in touch, the fact of the matter is that you're physically absent.

  Chuck Ragan

  Mother, Girlfriend, Children

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I think the father-son dynamic is interesting. I don't have a male friend who hasn't had some kind of conflict with their dad, and I don't have a male friend who hasn't had some kind of conflict with their son.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Dad, Son, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I was introduced to skateboarding through my father. He was a surfer back in the 50's & 60's in Hawaii, where my parents grew up. They later moved to California and I was born. Skateboarding was the thing for surfers here in California in the 60's and my Dad immediately made me a homemade board.

  Christian Hosoi

  Dad, California, Parent

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I was an older brother. So I had to do a lot of things first. My father was a self-made man, and he would beat me senseless. But he was a Scotsman, and stubborn. I'm his son, and I'm stubborn, too. I go on being stubborn.

  Harry Hay

  Brother, Son, Men

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• If fathers aren't growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so that their kids have that identity.

  Benjamin Watson

  Growing Up, Home, Kids

  Source: thesource.com

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