Memory Of My Father Quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis, Immanuel Velikovsky, Whittaker Chambers, Malcolm Gladwell, Theodore Hesburgh, Jim Valvano and many others.
My main memories of my father are of his illness.
On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers.
My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father – dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.
My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.
My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
