Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.

I think the one thing that most stands out is that my father always did what he believed to be the right thing to do and he always told us that we had to go our own way even if he disagreed.

Shortly afterwards my father told me that he might be going into the Eastern Zone of Germany. At that time my own mind was closer to his than it had ever been before, because he also believed that they are at least trying to build a new world.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.