Father Quotes

As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.

A twenty three year old hits on me in a coffee shop in venice, and I ask him if father is single.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

I am a much better father and husband than I ever was a sniper.

People who say that only young people voted on the Internet, those who didn’t see Pele play, forget that children are not orphans. There’s always a father who buys the computer and perhaps influences their vote. I won the people’s vote.

It was the late ’70s when my parents met. My dad was a lighting director for a soap opera, and my mom was a temp at the studio. They moved into a house in The Valley in L.A., to a neighborhood that was leafy and affordable.

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn’t believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

You get to a certain age and you can’t judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

For as long as I can remember, my nickname was Dusty. I remember my dad naming me that because of the streets where we lived.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.