All Quotes

My father had slowed down playing a little... I was 'round 10 or 12 years old. Every time he put his guitar down, I pick it up.
‐‐ David Edwards

My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.
‐‐ Rachel Joyce

My father had the bug. Ever since I can remember walking, he was waking me up at 5 in the morning to go to flea markets. As a kid, I couldn't really stand it, but as I grew up, I became that guy, and when I have kids, I am going to be doing the same thing.
‐‐ Dustin Yellin

My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo.
‐‐ Helene D. Gayle

My father had the most amazing operatic voice, so I have a soft spot for that.
‐‐ Olivia Newton-John

My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.
‐‐ Alexander Downer

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.
‐‐ Martin Scorsese

My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens.
‐‐ Tino Sehgal

My father had very little formal education.
‐‐ Daniel Berrigan

My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.
‐‐ Dylan Walsh

My father happened to be a doctor, and though I loved and idealized him privately, professionally I never had any use for him or anyone connected with that science.
‐‐ Rudolph Valentino

My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
‐‐ Natalie Portman

My father has a great love of science, and he indoctrinated me into it early. I think I was 12 or so when we designed a moon base.
‐‐ Andy Weir

My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.
‐‐ Laura Bell Bundy

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.
‐‐ Tori Amos

My father has always been interested in discarding the past. He's never much liked China or the whole idea behind China or Chinese ways of thinking. He's always been much more attracted to American ways of thinking. He feels Americans are more open - they tell you what they think - and he's very much that way himself.
‐‐ David Henry Hwang

My father has always been my hero.
‐‐ Gregory Hines

My father has always been such a doer.
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.
‐‐ Greg Iles

My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.
‐‐ Eva Green

My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
‐‐ Damian Marley

My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.
‐‐ Chris Pine

My father has been by my side since I was little. He takes care of things, my finances and my family.
‐‐ Neymar

My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.
‐‐ Malvinder Mohan Singh

My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.
‐‐ Yvette Clarke

My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.
‐‐ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

My father has developed a tradition of surprising us at some point by appearing in fancy dress. He buys a new costume each year and typically gets carried away. A couple of Christmases ago he appeared in an inflatable sumo outfit. It's endearing, really, and only quite embarrassing.
‐‐ Pippa Middleton

My father has fair skin, and my mother is dark, and I'm kind of cafe au lait.
‐‐ Lela Rochon

My father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs.
‐‐ Andres Iniesta

My father has never once asked me a question, any question. There's a freedom that came from that. It allowed me to create my own way of thinking.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.
‐‐ Ben Affleck

My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.
‐‐ Kim Wilde

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
‐‐ Peter De Vries

My father, he really encouraged me to really get into acting. He loved it so much, and he taught all the basics.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.
‐‐ Gwyneth Paltrow

My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.
‐‐ Dwight Gooden

My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'
‐‐ Alan King

My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.
‐‐ Hugh Leonard

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
‐‐ Eminem

My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
‐‐ Aaron Diehl

My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted.
‐‐ Mariah Carey

My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves.
‐‐ Henry Louis Gates

My father, in 1952, just in his 20s, my father became the chief spokesman for the Nation of Islam. From 1952 to 1959, there were four temples. My father was responsible and credited for having maximized this membership. From four temples to 50 temples, there was so much work involved.
‐‐ Ilyasah Shabazz

My father in his way influenced me and my sister to educate ourselves and to try to do things in life.
‐‐ Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

My father-in-law and I always had great interest in Indian sport. At the Athens Olympics, watching the wrestling event, we started discussing the state of Indian sport - inadequate representation, lack of satisfactory results etc. We thought we should do something about it.
‐‐ Amit Bhatia

My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class.
‐‐ Bobbie Ann Mason

My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.
‐‐ Jeff Foxworthy

My father-in-law has ear hair like a wolverine. It fans out from the auricles, wafting from the ridge lines like cilia, like gray feathered plumage.
‐‐ Rosecrans Baldwin