Father Quote by Hisham Matar

He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.

— Lance Morrow

My father's father fled a pogrom in Russia in the early 20th century and was welcomed to the United States. So was my stepmother,…

— Antony Blinken

Who I am disappeared a long time ago.

— Anonymous

Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three…

— Bhagat Singh

My parents left Libya in 1979, escaping political repression, and settled in Cairo. I was nine.

— Hisham Matar

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he…

— Lupita Nyong'o

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.

— Anthony Quinn

My dad lost his father when he was nine and ran away from home to come to Mumbai to feed his mother and his…

— Suniel Shetty

My father was gone when I was three years old.

— Marc Wallice

I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest…

— W. G. Sebald

He's disappeared to Azerbaijan, or somewhere ridiculous in the world.

— Harry Redknapp

My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn't seen his brothers or sisters or parents since…

— Jim Yong Kim