Course Quote by Richard LaGravenese

My father was not really a presence for me. He was away; he was in the German army.

— W. G. Sebald

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.…

— Danny Aiello

I lived with my maternal grandparents, so I rarely saw my mother during the day; at one time she had three different jobs and…

— Joao Cancelo

My dad was a workaholic. I saw him work seven days a week.

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

My dad left the family when I was about 10 and I've seen him sporadically over the years.

— Ant McPartlin

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.

— Anthony Horowitz

I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he…

— Steven Spielberg

I'd never seen my father stand up. As far as I can remember, my father was always in a wheelchair. I always remembered that.…

— Lou Williams

A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a…

— Idries Shah

I saw my father every day of my childhood.

— Tony Rock

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

My father could be very distancing. My clearest memory is of him squatting, watering plants for hours and hours at a time, completely silent.…

— John Malkovich