All Quotes

My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.
‐‐ Rod Stewart

My father being a soldier, every time I saw soldiers marching - 'Well,' I thought, 'my father's that,' and these soldiers were always looking magnificent. And I thought they were powerful; they were all-powerful. I knew that they were an elite in India.
‐‐ Spike Milligan

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.
‐‐ Jim Fowler

My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it. I felt a calling.
‐‐ David Crosby

My father believed a real man didn't read, and my parents hoped I'd get some sense and find a job in insurance.
‐‐ Ken Bruen

My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.
‐‐ Roger Moore

My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.
‐‐ Thomas Steinbeck

My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.
‐‐ Marianne Faithfull

My father belonged to a Jewish social club.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.
‐‐ Haruki Murakami

My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began.
‐‐ Christopher Fowler

My father, Birch Bayh, represented Indiana in the Senate from 1963 to 1981. A progressive, he nonetheless enjoyed many friendships with moderate Republicans and Southern Democrats.
‐‐ Evan Bayh

My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and asked for a loan.
‐‐ Susan Straight

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.
‐‐ Toots Thielemans

My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.
‐‐ Paula Fox

My father built a small manufacturing business. I worked alongside him and saw firsthand the challenges that business owners face.
‐‐ Brett Guthrie

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'
‐‐ Chris Pine

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 then. And he died some time ago, but never saw any of his relatives. My mother was a refugee in war-torn Korea.
‐‐ Jim Yong Kim

My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent. I never went to Bolivia until I was 60 years old, but apparently when he was 17, he had already planned his entire academic curriculum so that he could graduate high school and enter college in the United States. That's how much he wanted to come to this country.
‐‐ Raquel Welch

My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.
‐‐ Brad Pitt

My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler's avenue. So I had to go further afield and I brought all kinds of unscrupulous oiks back home - earless, toothless vagabonds - to teach me the arts of the old bagarre.
‐‐ Tom Hardy

My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese. I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi.
‐‐ Fred Armisen

My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor. Both he and my mom were totally supportive.
‐‐ Vince Vaughn

My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living.
‐‐ Kevin Kwan

My father came to Chennai at the age of 16 from a village in Coimbatore. He was an artist and was clear he wanted to do something, so he came to Chennai and joined an art course for eight years before he came into films.
‐‐ Suriya

My father came to England from India in 1957, and my mum came in 1960.
‐‐ Sanjeev Bhaskar

My father cared a lot about me, but he never gave me the satisfaction of really knowing it. Hitting .390 wasn't enough for him. Nothing seemed to be. He was not trying to be mean. He was just seeing to it that I never got self-satisfied, that I worked hard to get the most out of what I had.
‐‐ George Brett

My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.
‐‐ Rodney Dangerfield

My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. My dad's family had a general store, which I never saw. My grandparents on his side had already died before I started noticing things.
‐‐ Kary Mullis

My father certainly believed that one could make a living outside of an office, as he did. And that if I didn't want to work for other people, there wasn't any reason why I had to. He conveyed that very strongly to my sister and I - that smart people can make their own livings.
‐‐ Amy Bloom

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.
‐‐ Amber Tamblyn

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.
‐‐ David Alan Grier

My father could be very strict, but very fair. His father was the same. We all respected my grandfather; he was the head of the clan. Every morning, we all had to say good morning and kiss his hand. But not me. I jumped on his lap and bit him.
‐‐ Azzedine Alaia

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.
‐‐ Joe Eszterhas

My father could never remember anybody's name.
‐‐ Rodney Frelinghuysen

My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.
‐‐ Denis Leary

My father danced a lot. He was called 'the French Fred Astaire.'
‐‐ Vincent Cassel

My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.
‐‐ Hermione Gingold

My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.
‐‐ Tim Robbins

My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
‐‐ Yakov Smirnoff

My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus!
‐‐ Michael Douglas

My father did a lot of disaster relief work, and he was always in places where there was a lot of pain.
‐‐ Elizabeth Holmes

My father did advertising photography.
‐‐ Andreas Gursky

My father did everything for me. He was awesome.
‐‐ Jenson Button

My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
‐‐ Imtiaz Ali

My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

My father did shape me. He didn't drive because he had one leg, and for years I never drove. I had no mobility.
‐‐ Pete Hamill