Cindy McCain Quotes

What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.

I've never known my real father, and I've never looked for a father figure in a boyfriend, but I suppose I have looked for real father figures in my life - and I've acquired more than one. I certainly couldn't ask for better ones. I love them enormously - and they know that.

It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.

George Burns was the father I never had.

I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.

It means everything to be a father. I had a father growing up, so I wanted my kids to have a father as well.

It's sometimes better to have a father figure to rebel against than nothing, than just a black hole or an absence.

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.

The figure of my father looms large in my imagination.

A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.

A father is a thousand schoolmasters.

I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father.

It's not that we have too much mother, but too little father. We can't forgive our mothers for taking the place of our fathers until we are ready to see that the point of a man's life is to be a father and a mentor, and we can't do that because we don't know how we would be a father or a mentor when we never had one.

A man can never compete with a woman's father

In retrospect, golf for me was an apparent attempt to emulate the person I looked up to more than anyone: my father. He was instrumental in helping me develop the drive to achieve, but his role, as well as my mother's, was one of support and guidance, not interference.

I know my father can make a difference.

We started out as boss and player, and Wellington was almost like my father.

The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father.

My father combined many of the elements that were feared in the culture, but also he was a warm figure, a figure we needed. We depended on him to give us a little bit of strength and courage.

If you look at many of the women who find themselves with cold, distant, difficult, cruel men, it's because they had cold, distant, difficult, cruel fathers who made them feel that there was no alternative or, at a minimum, who made them choose someone like their father in order to change in this other man what they couldn't change in their fathers.

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

Didn't you ever have a father yourself? You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.' So I figured it's because I never had a father that I don't want one now. A person can't miss something she never had.

I was always listening to my father more than anyone. I was always afraid of my father more than anyone. But there's a moment in time where other men in your life can have a huge impact.