All Quotes

My father didn't know George W. Bush from Adam.
‐‐ Ron Reagan

My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
‐‐ Malcolm X

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.
‐‐ Malcolm X

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
‐‐ Clarence Budington Kelland

My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man.
‐‐ Richard Diebenkorn

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
‐‐ Haile Gebrselassie

My father died beside trees on iron rails... He had 77 dollars on him at the time, and we used the money for Thai takeout because, as my friend Julie says about times like this, 'You still have to eat.'
‐‐ Miriam Toews

My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to law school. I remember sitting in the waiting room when the doctor walked in. I said to myself, The worst possible thing just happened. What will you do?
‐‐ Steve Wynn

My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.
‐‐ Desmond Llewelyn

My father died in 1957, just before I was born. My mother went to her Jewish aunt, who slammed the door in her face.
‐‐ James McBride

My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from college. My mother died just before 'Sideways' came out. She knew I was an actor, but she never saw me become successful.
‐‐ Paul Giamatti

My father died in '97. But at least he lived until 93, so he saw my success.
‐‐ John Catsimatidis

My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the funeral parlour in France and being given a laminated menu of coffins, and thinking, surely there is an ice cream at the back of here!
‐‐ Rachel Joyce

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.
‐‐ Richard Ford

My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.
‐‐ Conrad Veidt

My father died of brain cancer in 1991. I do not know anyone whose life has not been touched by the loss of a loved one to cancer. I wrote my book 'Gracefully Gone' about my father's fight and my struggle growing up with an ill parent. I wrote it to help others know they are not alone in this all-too-often insurmountable war against cancer.
‐‐ Alicia Coppola

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.
‐‐ Richard E. Grant

My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987.
‐‐ Nancy Pelosi

My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.
‐‐ George Kennedy

My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.
‐‐ P. L. Travers

My father died when I was 9 years old. The miserable condition of my family at that time is beyond description. My family, solitary and without influence, became at once the target of much insult and abuse.
‐‐ Chiang Kai-shek

My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.
‐‐ Philip Levine

My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York.
‐‐ Larry King

My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.
‐‐ Robert Winston

My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.
‐‐ Kara Swisher

My father died when I was quite small, so my uncle used to buy me books and read them to me.
‐‐ Jenny Nimmo

My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.
‐‐ David Ayer

My father died when I was seven. I guess I am interested in fatherlessness as a metaphor for vulnerability and unprotectedness. Being on your own in the world in a way you're not quite ready for, ever.
‐‐ Mary Gordon

My father died when I was seven, leaving a widow and five sons, ranging in age from five to seventeen. My mother was the most highly-disciplined and hardest working person I have ever known, and this, combined with her love and gentleness, enabled her to make a success of each of her children.
‐‐ Arthur Lewis

My father died when I was still in college, and it was sudden, and he was my beloved parent, and you just can't imagine what you life is going to be like.
‐‐ Judy Blume

My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett

My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.
‐‐ George Weah

My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and movie parties. She put me through private school, Horace Mann, in Riverdale. She sent me to camp so that I would learn to compete. She was a lioness, and I was her cub.
‐‐ Alan Furst

My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister.
‐‐ Henrik Pontoppidan

My father documented on film for the last time what Tibet looked like before the world got there.
‐‐ Peter Sis

My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because his whole life was cars. Sadly, he didn't live to see the day when I could have done that for him, which still hurts.
‐‐ Bruce Forsyth

My father emigrated from Lithuania to the United States at the age of 12. He received his higher education in New York City and graduated in 1914 from the New York University School of Dentistry. My mother came at the age of 14 from a part of Russia which, after the war, became Poland; she was only 19 when she was married to my father.
‐‐ Gertrude B. Elion

My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I acquired early in life great respect for books, scholars and education.
‐‐ George Emil Palade

My father encouraged me to work in the library, just because it was the world that he knew. But I also wanted to do it. I also wanted to work in the library and be part of the library somehow, because it represented a world that really wasn't represented in my home, and I wanted it to be.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.
‐‐ Greg Mortenson

My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I got bored in the car, to write a poem about it. And I did find that poetry was a way for me, I think as it for a lot of people, to articulate those things that seem hardest to say.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey

My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the position of king from that of prime minister.
‐‐ Basmah bint Saud

My father felt that children should make their own way.
‐‐ Ron Reagan

My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.
‐‐ Immanuel Velikovsky

My father firmly embraced the Ralph Kramden philosophy: he was king of his Levittown castle. He worked hard, and his family deferred to his wishes. Except me. I did not defer and was disciplined accordingly.
‐‐ Bill O'Reilly

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.
‐‐ Simon Newcomb

My father, for his part, was not a man to begrudge anyone a divergent opinion; he'd have been fine if I had written some articles disagreeing with his policies, or even given interviews, as long as I was respectful and civil.
‐‐ Patti Davis

My father fought in World War II at the Battle of the Bulge.
‐‐ Chuck Norris

My father found cocktail parties challenging.
‐‐ Justin Trudeau