All Quotes

My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day.'
‐‐ Alexandra Guarnaschelli

My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'
‐‐ Malala Yousafzai

My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.
‐‐ Emilia Clarke

My father always said that Brazil is the place to 'make America,' and by 'make America' he meant the place to grow - to prosper.
‐‐ Michel Temer

My father always said, 'You can do anything a man can do.'
‐‐ Gwendoline Christie

My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
‐‐ Malala Yousafzai

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that's what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.
‐‐ Cristiano Ronaldo

My father always told me, 'Before you become a queen, you have to learn how to take care of your own things.' So I knew how to do all of it, but I had never really done it on a daily basis. So I was cleaning houses, and I started working restaurants.
‐‐ Camila Alves

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.
‐‐ Mia Farrow

My father always told me that story was first and foremost. We would watch not just his films but a lot of classic American films. My father was a great David Lean fan, and David Lean's one of my favorite directors. We would discuss films endlessly.
‐‐ Christopher Rouse

My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you've done your best, you've done well enough.
‐‐ Jane Seymour

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
‐‐ Lee Iacocca

My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill.
‐‐ Cam Newton

My father always wanted to be 'Col-bear.' He lived in the same town as his father, and his father didn't like the idea of the name with the French pronunciation. So my father said to us, 'Do what you want. You're not going to offend anybody.' And he was dead long before I made my decision.
‐‐ Stephen Colbert

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.
‐‐ Alice Roosevelt Longworth

My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.
‐‐ Nick Park

My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew.
‐‐ Kevin McCloud

My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I.
‐‐ Steven Sinofsky

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.
‐‐ Darrell Issa

My father and brothers were coal miners.
‐‐ Merle Travis

My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. When the first energy crisis came in the early 1970s, the business suffered.
‐‐ David Einhorn

My father and his brothers and sisters were childhood Irish jig champions in the Bronx. At our family celebrations, they all get out and do the jig. And of course, the younger generation, me and my cousins and my brothers, we have our own Americanized renditions of the Irish jig, which is a bit more like 'Lord of the Dance.'
‐‐ Zach McGowan

My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.
‐‐ Steve Case

My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her.
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston

My father and I are very similar and have a wonderful relationship, but we both stand by our opinions.
‐‐ Chris Hemsworth

My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man.
‐‐ Michael Haneke

My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
‐‐ Amy Sedaris

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.
‐‐ Henry Louis Gates

My father and I rarely saw eye to eye when I was growing up. We saw the world differently. It was only when we were both adults that we were able to share spectacles. However, football, and particularly the World Cup, was when we, enemy combatants, could traverse trenches and be together.
‐‐ Rabih Alameddine

My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?'
‐‐ Tom Hiddleston

My father and I used to watch movies all the time. That was our bonding time, so that's when I kind of fell in love with acting.
‐‐ Jessica Barth

My father and mother are both very smart people and I always felt I was a little short of the mark. So I would compensate with a character like Logan Cale. He's wearing glasses, he's in a wheelchair, he's a computer genius. He's very far away from who I am, but I really wanted to play roles where I'd be taken seriously.
‐‐ Michael Weatherly

My father and mother are Muslims. But from the moment I started talking, I decided I was a Christian. They let me.
‐‐ Tom Catena

My father and mother emigrated to Canada in 1958, but there's nobody more English than an Englishman who no longer lives in England, and our home was a shrine to all things English.
‐‐ Mike Myers

My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
‐‐ Seamus Heaney

My father and mother had tremendous integrity, and obviously that affected me.
‐‐ David Green

My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.
‐‐ Jerry Stiller

My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all kinds.
‐‐ David Gross

My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
‐‐ Patrick White

My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
‐‐ Jack Kerouac

My father and my mother separated when I was two.
‐‐ Carla Gugino

My father and my mother were both teachers. They inculcated to us the importance of studies.
‐‐ Hugo Chavez

My father and my uncle used to be amateur monologuists because their generation grew up with Henry Irving and the like, and they had that style of delivery, of declamation: 'The Belllllls!' What we call 'ham' now, larger than life.
‐‐ Ron Moody

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.
‐‐ Edward G. Robinson

My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not.
‐‐ Dorothy Fields

My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.
‐‐ Bernardo Bertolucci

My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
‐‐ Taylor Negron

My father became the technical advisor for 'The Desert Fox,' with James Mason as Rommel. They wanted an Aussie who had been in North Africa with the English, and found my father on the Pasadena police force.
‐‐ Jamey Sheridan