All Quotes

My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish.
‐‐ Kelli O'Hara

My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.
‐‐ Ron Reagan

My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
‐‐ Yusuf Hamied

My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.
‐‐ Iyanla Vanzant

My father never liked me or my sister, and he never liked our mother either, after an initial infatuation, and in fact, he never liked anyone at all after an hour or two, no, no one except a stooge.
‐‐ Aram Saroyan

My father never once told me he loved me. I told him I loved him only one time - that was when he was sick. It was hard, the way he showed his love. I didn't understand what he was trying to teach me. Now I know, but it came too late for him to see it. After he was gone, I realized he was trying to strengthen my mind to make me better.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney

My father never put me on his lap and said he loved me.
‐‐ Dick Dale

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
‐‐ Fred Allen

My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.
‐‐ Danny Aiello

My father never talked about the sacrifices that the family made for me.
‐‐ Novak Djokovic

My father never wanted me to be a writer. He didn't - he came to terms with it maybe two years before he died. He wanted me to be a weather girl because when I was growing up, there were very few Latinas on television, and in the early '70s when you first started seeing Latinas on TV, they would be the weather girls.
‐‐ Sandra Cisneros

My father never was and isn't a mean man. You know, he never was ruthless. And he succeeded in life without sticking it to anybody. And that's a great example for a man, a strong man, a man's man, to give to his children. You can succeed, you can be successful, without walking over somebody.
‐‐ Maria Shriver

My father not only has the strength and ability necessary to be our next president, but also the kindness and compassion that will enable him to be the leader that this country needs.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me.
‐‐ Hill Harper

My father offered his life so our democracy could live. My mother devoted her life to nurturing that democracy. I will dedicate my life to making our democracy reach its fullest potential: that of ensuring equality for all. My family has sacrificed much, and I am willing to do this again if necessary.
‐‐ Benigno Aquino III

My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run. Who are you competing against? It's you. You need to be doing this for you and only you.
‐‐ Richard Simmons

My father, OK, when we first got old enough to hunt, this was his rule: If you shoot it, you come home and eat it. Otherwise you do not shoot it, OK? You don't just kill something for the sake of killing it, OK? If you kill it, you gotta grill it, so to speak.
‐‐ Si Robertson

My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker.
‐‐ Garry Hynes

My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don't need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents.
‐‐ Michael Spence

My father once said, 'If you're in the desert and you're dying of thirst, are you going to drink a glass of blood or are you going to drink a glass of water?' I think what he was trying to say, interesting coming from my blood father, is sometimes there are people in your family that can be toxic.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage

My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.'
‐‐ Gore Vidal

My father once told me that I have a mind like a lint trap - I pull stuff out of everything, and a lot of it just clings.
‐‐ Ellen Klages

My father once told me when I was a young girl that I was destined to do great things. His belief in my abilities and ambition is rooted deeply in the spirit of Malawians; resilient and determined for a better Malawi and a better Africa.
‐‐ Joyce Banda

My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

My father owned a small company, called Gundel Electronics, where he did community band radio and some repair stuff.
‐‐ Rashid Johnson

My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.
‐‐ Jesmyn Ward

My father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own.
‐‐ Alain de Botton

My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life.
‐‐ Christopher Walken

My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.
‐‐ Cory Booker

My father passed away after three years of debilitating disease, which transformed a very strong and bright man into a real wreck. And that is hard. You have to get out of that stronger, if you can, which I was lucky to be able to. I was the eldest of the family, and I had to support my mother and help my brothers.
‐‐ Christine Lagarde

My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
‐‐ Nate Parker

My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer.
‐‐ Hill Harper

My father, Philip Fisher, was the toughest guy I ever knew. An example: He had terrible teeth, yet he got his fillings done without ever using a painkiller. Now, that's tough!
‐‐ Kenneth Fisher

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.
‐‐ Samantha Bond

My father played baseball. That's what I know to do. That's my gift. God has given me the greatest gift. And that's what I love to do.
‐‐ Alex Rodriguez

My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
‐‐ Jack Antonoff

My father played with Air Supply, Yes, B.B. King and even Sheryl Crow when she first started out, so I've sort of been around the industry for a long time.
‐‐ Lindsey Haun

My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.
‐‐ Frank Gehry

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.
‐‐ Bob Dylan

My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.
‐‐ John Lasseter

My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
‐‐ Valentino Rossi

My father raised me to build computers, hardware. Literally, as an 8 year old, I had a soldering iron and circuit boards, and this was in neighbourhoods that wouldn't have a whole lot of money or anything. And I figured out ways to just hustle.
‐‐ Jidenna

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.
‐‐ Antony Garrett Lisi

My father raised us like... we were not allowed to see people in any sort of colors, but also we were not allowed to call people fat. If ever we were to say, 'Oh that fat person, or this person,' he would make us put a bar of soap in our mouth and count to 10. We weren't allowed to look at people like that.
‐‐ Khloe Kardashian

My father raised us to step toward trouble rather than to step away from it.
‐‐ Justin Trudeau

My father ran a CB radio business. I grew up in a cluttered space that was filled with radios and antennas. It felt alien.
‐‐ Rashid Johnson

My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of a stroke. He literally worked himself to death.
‐‐ R. T. Rybak

My father ran a famous L.A. nightclub complete with roller-rink - Flippers - in the early Eighties which was the West Coast's answer to Studio 54.
‐‐ Liberty Ross