All Quotes

My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him - the typical thing. Of course I could play guitar better than him when I was about 12. But I couldn't paint better than him. So I went, 'I'm going to be the guitarist of the house, not the painter.'
‐‐ David Russell

My father knew classical music very well. Driving in the car, listening to the radio, he could name every composer, every movement, what piece it was. I was fascinated by the way he recognized who wrote what.
‐‐ Anat Cohen

My father knew my husband long before I ever did. He actually always says that he loved him first... there really was this wonderful respect and admiration between the two of them before I even came into the picture.
‐‐ Stephanie McMahon

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.
‐‐ Christopher Durang

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.
‐‐ Kate DiCamillo

My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
‐‐ Natalie Cole

My father left... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I said, 'You know what, Mom? Good thing he left because you're a strong woman.'
‐‐ J. R. Martinez

My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.
‐‐ Denis Leary

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.
‐‐ Rupert Murdoch

My father left me with his love of Jewish studies and cultural life. To this very day, along with several physicians and scientist colleagues, I take regular periodical lessons taught by a Rabbinical scholar on how the Jewish law views moral and ethical problems related to modern medicine and science.
‐‐ Aaron Ciechanover

My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story.
‐‐ Eugene Jarecki

My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.
‐‐ Robert Harris

My father left us when I was 10, so I had to make enough money for us to be able to live in a house because my brother went in the service during Vietnam and I was sole support of my mother. And she had no skills, really, except to clean other people's houses. So I had to have a bunch of jobs, you know, as well as music.
‐‐ Bob Seger

My father left when I was really young, but he's still living. There are things I wish I'd said that I didn't and I don't think I'll ever get the opportunity to say. He's battled addiction problems his entire life. I wish things were different. I wish there were a way my son could know him, know the good parts of him.
‐‐ Sarah Shahi

My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother designed a cabin, a log cabin, like a - it was like a Swiss chalet. I was twelve years old, and my father and I built it on a rocky point peninsula out into Lake Superior.
‐‐ John Lautner

My father lived by the philosophy, 'Be yourself, because everyone else is taken,' and he made sure I did, too. Whatever I wanted to do, he supported me. I don't mean that I was spoilt - he didn't believe in material gifts - but he watched my back while I worked to achieve things.
‐‐ Tommy Lee

My father lived life to the fullest, even though it was cut short at a young age in 1962. He was known for his intelligence, wit, wisdom, a wonderful sense of humour, a great personality, and a genuine goodwill towards all.
‐‐ Ajay Mehta

My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.
‐‐ Henry Louis Gates

My father Lloyd Bridges was very versatile in his parts, but he had a hit in the '60s 'Sea Hunt,' where he played a skin diver. And he was so into that role that people actually thought he was a skin-diver.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

My father Lloyd Bridges worked on a TV show called 'Sea Hunt.' He impressed upon me as a child the importance of taking care of the ocean and working together to do our part to reduce human pollution.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

My father lost his business. Our house was locked up, and we had to leave.
‐‐ Kumar Pallana

My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it off. So he didn't get what a lot of Irish immigrants got, which was a job on the Waterfront - he didn't get that.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

My father loved antique shops and shows, and quite a bit of my childhood involved outings to dim, dusty places packed with cast-off treasures.
‐‐ Gail Z. Martin

My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.
‐‐ Bob Feller

My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.
‐‐ Abigail Spencer

My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always rooted against them, always.
‐‐ Rabih Alameddine

My father loved 'Godard and Truffaut.' He was more artsy. My mom loved the 'Bourne' trilogy; she likes big blockbusters. She loved that I did 'I Am Legend.' My passion for acting came with my passion for movies.
‐‐ Alice Braga

My father loved me so much that he did not want me to be a laborer or anything. I don't know if it's the right thing to do - push your kids into something and then stay on them until they do it. Let them pick what they want to do.
‐‐ Joe Pesci

My father loved music. He loved Motown and R&B, and my mother loved Journey and Fleetwood Mac, so they were always listening to it and playing it.
‐‐ Andra Day

My father loved people, children and pets.
‐‐ Tony Visconti

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.
‐‐ George Steiner

My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson

My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.
‐‐ Laila Ali

My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

My father made false teeth. Unfortunately, during the Depression, not many people could afford them, and my parents lost their home.
‐‐ Al Feldstein

My father made me take three years of Latin in high school.
‐‐ Robert David Hall

My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don't take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck.
‐‐ Shaquille O'Neal

My father made sure I was treated equally with my brothers.
‐‐ Joyce Banda

My father made sure of discipline, but my mum, she was serious business.
‐‐ Alek Wek

My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
‐‐ Baz Luhrmann

My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.
‐‐ Lincoln Steffens

My father managed shopping malls when I was a kid, and my high school job was to dress up in an elf costume and take photos of kids sitting on Santa Claus's lap.
‐‐ Karen Duffy

My father married out of the family. I also married outside the family.
‐‐ Leila Aboulela

My father, Melvin van Peebles, and my mother were both very active politically when I was a kid. The first time I was allowed to stay up late was to attend a demonstration.
‐‐ Mario Van Peebles

My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
‐‐ Ira Sachs

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.
‐‐ Bruno Mars

My father, my mother, and then my father was always on top of me - 'Keep your nose clean. Do you love what you're doing?' 'Yes.' 'Then be aware, or you're going to lose it.'
‐‐ Paul Anka