All Quotes

My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire.
‐‐ Deana Carter

My father... gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.
‐‐ Iman

My father gave me an old Olympia portable when I was in fourth grade. Our ancestors came from Ireland. Our family stories of immigration helped me understand more about my characters in 'The Lemon Orchard.'
‐‐ Luanne Rice

My father gave me Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' when I was in junior high; my junior high, angst-filled soul responded to that.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
‐‐ Jim Valvano

My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers.
‐‐ Leonardo DiCaprio

My father got a phone call to bring me in to meet with Spielberg for 'E.T.,' partially because they knew I was a physical kid, and I was known in the business somewhat as a stunt kid, and I could do all the bicycle riding.
‐‐ C. Thomas Howell

My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child's attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off.
‐‐ Jez Butterworth

My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
‐‐ Natalie Gulbis

My father grew up in a life of extreme privilege.
‐‐ Kevin Kwan

My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'
‐‐ Jo Nesbo

My father had a big brick cell phone, before anyone had a cell phone, because he was really just into that kind of thing - communication devices. I grew up between my father's laboratory and my mother's library.
‐‐ Rashid Johnson

My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.
‐‐ Tony Visconti

My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.
‐‐ Billy Graham

My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
‐‐ Manoj Bhargava

My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited.
‐‐ Brian Dennehy

My father had a heart attack and he has heart disease. He had a full recovery, and I'm very lucky, but it certainly made him look at the way he's living and how he's treating his body.
‐‐ Cheryl Hines

My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.
‐‐ OMI

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play.
‐‐ Frank Sinatra

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
‐‐ Spike Milligan

My father had a series of blue-collar jobs and never made more than $20,000 a year. When I was seven, he got injured on a job. That was a very important point - because of the injury, he couldn't walk, and the company he was working for did not pay him. There was no compensation. So there was no money and no food.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks.
‐‐ Michel Gondry

My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
‐‐ Madeleine Peyroux

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson

My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!
‐‐ Cassandra Wilson

My father had all these great names for our cows. Bossy and Daisy and Petunia and Turnip. One of my jobs was to round up the cows before milking. I'd go out back with the dog and bring them in.
‐‐ Bobbie Ann Mason

My father had always called me Sam since the day I was born. He rarely ever called me Tiger. I would ask him, 'Why don't you ever call me Tiger?' He says, 'Well, you look more like a Sam.
‐‐ Tiger Woods

My father had always dreamed of getting a Ph.D., but certain life circumstances prevented him from following through. It was a tremendous, deep regret. The day I got my Ph.D., I saw in my father's face what it meant that I had done this.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it. Part of why she left him was this delusion of greatness and identifying it very directly with being an artist.
‐‐ Nick Flynn

My father had an invisible job outside of the house; I didn't know what he did. But my kids were privy to the ups and downs of a writer's life.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

My father had been in the German Diplomatic Service, and although he had been in the United States since World War II and out of diplomacy, it was something that was very much talked about in the family. So when I went to college, it was always my intention to try to get into the Foreign Service.
‐‐ Hermann Eilts

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
‐‐ Rose Kennedy

My father had gone to Vietnam.
‐‐ Elizabeth Edwards

My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we had skiing holidays and summer holidays on the beach.
‐‐ Britt Ekland

My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.
‐‐ Gary Kemp

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.
‐‐ Michel Legrand

My father had left school at 18, without enough money to go to college - and, with four sons after the war, said he could still not afford to do so.
‐‐ Nigel Hamilton

My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

My father had lived in the States in the 1960s for a while and came to love American Songbook material. Even today, he sometimes recognizes singers that I never even heard of, which is beautiful and inspiring.
‐‐ Anat Cohen

My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.
‐‐ Novak Djokovic

My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school.
‐‐ Douglass North

My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and seeing some large bones sticking out of the ground. He was enough of a geologist, being a sand and gravel man, to have a pretty good notion that they were dinosaur bones.
‐‐ Jack Horner

My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, before the war, developing guitar pickups. So there was a kind of family thing about the guitar, although it was considered something of an anomaly then.
‐‐ Pete Townshend

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.
‐‐ Franz Boas

My father had risen in the British Army under the revolutionary aegis of General Montgomery, who was mad about training for battle, not muddling into disaster.
‐‐ Nigel Hamilton

My father had several strokes and heart attacks. I was with him when he died, and it was a horrible death. He had been a very articulate man, and to lose that, never to be able to speak properly and to be unable to move - he had always been a very vigorous man, so to be in a wheelchair and mumbling - was terrible.
‐‐ Ruth Rendell

My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
‐‐ Chief Joseph