Rasheed Wallace Quotes

I loved my mother, but I don't like her.

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

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.

I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn't have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren't around. I was lucky to have mine around.

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.

My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was in Cleveland, on business. Sometimes, every six months or so, he would come by for dinner.

I love my parents. I did love them. It's complicated.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Women as mothers grapple with corresponding contradictions. The adoration they feel for their grown daughters, mixed with the sense of responsibility for their well-being, can be overwhelming, matched only by the hurt they feel when their attempts to help or just stay connected are rebuffed or even excoriated as criticism or devilish interference.

You can go in and out of love and still love somebody, you know? You may not like them so much on the day, but I can tell you that I don't think I've ever been so vulnerable or been so angry in my life - like, those two emotions feel so hurt or so enraged - as when you're dealing with your kids.

You can love and hate your family with equal measure, but the power of the bond you have to have with them, you can't really ever walk away.

When I became a father, all that stuff rose up again from the back of my mind. I suddenly realised how uninvolved my father had been in my life.

Fatherhood is something that is personal to me because I didn't grow up around my father.

Of course I was in love with my father as a child. He was Daddy, and our house came alive in a special way whenever he walked through the door. He'd romp and play with us; my sisters and I would literally squeal with excitement when Daddy came home.

I have no worthwhile memories of my father, therefore no idea of what a father's role should be.

My father was quite an attractive guy. He was very intelligent and very amusing. I didn't like him. He was always very nice to me but I just didn't like him.

You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.

I don't have a father, but my kids tell me every day that they love me... even when I am not in my best mood.

Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

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

When I was growing up, I never really knew my father. I didn't get to know my father until I was about 14 years old.