Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes

Everything I am today, I owe to my father.

I am not really trying to act like my dad.

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

When I watch 'Glee', it reminds me of my upbringing.

I'm forever in debt to Nickelodeon. It made me who I am today.

There's a lot of influences that I have from Detroit that are subliminal. I mean, I spent the first 10 years of my life there. My mom and dad were born and raised there, so a lot of that rubbed off on me. When I get angry, sometimes a Detroit accent comes out.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

I owe my mother who I am, and my father my drive.

My father was my hero when I was still a boy.

I enjoy walking by myself on the same paths where, as a little boy, I delighted in following my father around.

Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.

You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.

I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life. And perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree. I was looking for - when I was looking for a voice to mix with my voice, I put on my father's work clothes, as I say in the book, and I went to work.

My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

Truthfully, I'm still Corey Hart, Dad, first.

Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.

Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.

You always want to break away from your parents, and you always think, 'I'm never going to be like that guy.' What I've discovered is you kind of wind up becoming your parents, which is also a cliche in itself. My father, despite the fact that he's been dead for over 25 years, he's been a huge influence on me.

If you've seen a photo of me from when I was a kid, I don't think anyone would have expected that going in front of the camera was something that I was going to do. I can't believe how little effort my parents put into making me seem like an appealing little girl.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.