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My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did my mother. I believe that I just have it from my father, from my parents. They had wonderful energy.
‐‐ Donald Trump

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.
‐‐ June Jordan

My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing group that used to open for Sam Cooke. There was always music in our house, but there wasn't much art around.
‐‐ Carrie Mae Weems

My father was very methodical about life. He'd always ask me, 'Now, what's your system? What's your schedule like?' I have no big system, no rigid schedule. When he would ask, 'How do you do this? Give it to me step by step,' I'd try to convince him that there were no step-by-steps.
‐‐ Jeff MacNelly

My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.
‐‐ John Henry Carver

My father was very outwardly religious.
‐‐ John McGahern

My father was very sick around the time I was born. The doctors thought he wouldn't live. He did recover, but I don't remember him as very active. I do remember lots of schtick around the dinner table. Generally, he and my brothers and I were all laughing at the same thing my mother did not find funny, whatever that was.
‐‐ Albert Brooks

My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.
‐‐ Madonna Ciccone

My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on television, you're not as good a writer as if you were weaned on books.
‐‐ James Burrows

My father was what you would call a cowboy, a vaquero; he worked out in the ranches with cattle. And my mother came from farmers down in the valley.
‐‐ Rudolfo Anaya

My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.
‐‐ Anthony Hopkins

My father wasn't a hard guy. He was a well-liked guy. He had a lot of compassion about things in life. There were rules, but there was also flexibility within those rules. He didn't push me when it came to golf: he just taught me the right way to play the game.
‐‐ Tom Watson

My father wasn't a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something that was meant to help people. He didn't charge people like he should have... which is why I was allowed to play bars and strip joints when I was 14.
‐‐ Max Weinberg

My father wasn't absolutely delighted. He wanted me to become a lawyer. I studied law, but I thought the shoe business was more exciting.
‐‐ Diego Della Valle

My father wasn't allowing me control and the financial freedom that I was asking for. I was 17, about to be 18 within a year, so I started asking more questions because I felt that I needed to start learning about those things.
‐‐ Dominique Moceanu

My father wasn't around much. He made mistakes, but he had a very tough road.
‐‐ Thomas Gibson

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'
‐‐ LeBron James

My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.
‐‐ Adam Sandler

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.
‐‐ Marion Jones

My father wasn't the best role model to me.
‐‐ Joe Torre

My father wasn't too crazy about me. I loved him anyway. One of the things I regretted for a long time was that he died before he could see that he would be proud of me. I was actually more what he wished for than he thought.
‐‐ Mike Nichols

My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared with him. He didn't like them as much. He gets upset or whatever. I guess I had a strong opinion from when I was a little boy.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.
‐‐ Gregory Corso

My father went to boarding school in Sydney when he was 14.
‐‐ Kevin Kwan

My father went to Rutgers, and I grew up in New Jersey, so I'm a great Rutgers fan. I have season tickets.
‐‐ Peter Eisenman

My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour's journey each way, and he would read a paperback in four journeys. After supper, we all sat down to read - it was long before TV, remember!
‐‐ Maeve Binchy

My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
‐‐ Ted Danson

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.
‐‐ David Ogden Stiers

My father, who educated his children on worldly principles, gave us much money, considering our age; not in order that we might spend it, but, as he said, to accustom us to possess money without spending it. The result was, that it led me and my brother into many sins.
‐‐ George Muller

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
‐‐ James Rainwater

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.
‐‐ Stephen Greenblatt

My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.
‐‐ Christian Louboutin

My father, who was a hair colourist, died when I was young, so my mother had to work very hard. But at the same time, I do believe that if you have everything, it is easy to make a dinner. When you only have flour and water and olives and potatoes, you have to be much more creative, and that's what my mother is all about.
‐‐ Alber Elbaz

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.
‐‐ George Weinberg

My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through.
‐‐ Tyler Perry

My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The Body In The Library.'
‐‐ Sophie Hannah

My father, whose work I adore... was down working on little things of grass and dead birds. Well, that didn't interest me. As an 8-year-old kid, I wanted knights in armor and so forth.
‐‐ Jamie Wyeth

My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.
‐‐ Eddie Trunk

My father worked all the time.
‐‐ Michael Bloomberg

My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.
‐‐ Lewis Black

My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.
‐‐ David Bowie

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
‐‐ Edward Tufte

My father worked for IBM. My mother raised us kids. There were six of us, and a couple of extra foster kids at any given time.
‐‐ Steve Coogan

My father worked for the Foreign Office, so he was away a lot of the time. We were a very volatile family. There was a lot of love and a lot of conflict. The conflict kicked in mostly during my adolescence.
‐‐ Amanda Donohoe

My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the boxcars. One year we stole a case of butterscotch pudding that was for export to Israel. It took us years to get through.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer - the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems.
‐‐ Diana Ross

My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity.
‐‐ David Rubenstein