Ivanka Trump Quotes

Everyone's entitled to their opinion about my father. Some people think he's a distraction and takes some of my shine away, but, for me, that's not the case.

My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that.

It's very difficult, I would imagine, to distinguish father and daughter. And maybe some of it comes as I'm doing my thing and my father being a very strong political African figure for so many years. Whatever he does is almost like some kind of cloud on top.

My father and I are very similar and have a wonderful relationship, but we both stand by our opinions.

I wouldn't say I'm a mummy's girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of her as a woman. I was very much a daddy's girl.

I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.

Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.

People ask me, do I ever disagree with my father? It would be a little strange if I didn't.

My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'

I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting.

I love my father. I disagreed with him. But he was my father. He was the boss.

Talking to your parents is a great idea - if you have that relationship with them.

I have no desire to advise the Gandhi family.

If I have a friend - when I have a match, and you have a match with that person - then most people hold back. I'm not.

Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.

In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.

Rudy handed it back. "Speaking of which, I think we're both slightly in for it when we get home. You especially." "Why me?" "You know- your mama." "What about her?" Liesel was exercising the blatant right of every person who's ever belonged to a family. It's all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won't let anyone else do it. That's when you get your back up and show loyalty.

In one family, all goes by two and two. If a member of it has any interest, he or she will confide it to some one other; but the rest know nothing. In another family, all feel what touches one; nothing is kept dark from the father and mother, brothers and sisters--all share. This family habit is by far the better, it strengthens the tie between the members, and makes the home one home.

I think it's true about people now being closer to their parents, since the '60s, really. The parents are no longer from a different planet, the 1950s ideas of American family. We could be friends with our parents. After the '60s, it wasn't like a person smoking pot was what the parents would be appalled at.

My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces. It signified that I trusted them, that I was myself in front of them.

Imagine what Ivanka Trump life has been like? She's been eaten alive by the media. I have empathy for that.

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.

Oh, Myr," he chokes out. "I hate having to ask this of you..." He glances towards the car again, and I crouch down in the shadows, hoping it's too dark for him to see whether the window is open or closed. The woman pats his arm, cradling her hand against his elbow. "You know I'd do anything for you and Hil," she says. I like her voice. It's throaty and rich. "You'd do anything?" my father repeats numbly. "Even now? After -?" "Even now," the woman says firmly.