Baseness Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson

After a hellish decade, my son got and stayed sober.

— David Sheff

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

— Gustav Stresemann

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

— Plato

I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and…

— Randy Bachman

“When I was a boy, I passed a homeless man, drunk and begging on a street corner. My father, sensing my disgust, said something…

— Blake Crouch

I've been called 'the father of loud.'

— Dick Dale

Daddy, when he drank, just became sweeter. There wasn't a mean thought in his body. I've always said he was like a drunk Jimmy…

— Carol Burnett

“If they bragged about their fathers when he was present, he would tell them, “We should not call a father a ‘father,’ unless he’s…

— Ibrahim al-Koni

My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and…

— Jim Hamilton

I'm lucky to have had a father [John Lennon] who paid attention.

— Sean Lennon

Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have…

— Sherman Alexie

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was…

— Joe Strummer