My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It was brutal; it scared the hell out of me. I was so petrified all the while I was a child, I didn't know what I was doing half the time.
‐‐ Don Ameche
My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.
‐‐ George Clooney
My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a long career in the film business, which was bifurcated with a career in intelligence. He had to deal with gangsters, and sometimes he would take me with him. Also, I went to school with their children.
‐‐ Mark Helprin
My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
‐‐ C. K. Williams
My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.
‐‐ Donna Leon
My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!
‐‐ Dick Bruna
My father realizes that he did okay with me. He did the best he could.
‐‐ Sage Stallone
My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
‐‐ T. J. Miller
My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.
‐‐ Stevie Wonder
My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.
‐‐ Anthony Kiedis
My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln
My father represented India at the Olympics, and I also want to do that.
‐‐ Jeev Milkha Singh
My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.
‐‐ Lincoln Steffens
My father resented that I was paid so much more than he was.
‐‐ David Holt
My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot.
‐‐ Michelle Bachelet
My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.
‐‐ Richard Ernst
My father's a character.
‐‐ Bryan Adams
My father's a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.
‐‐ John Hurt
My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing in the choir, begging my mom if I could have a solo.
‐‐ Keke Palmer
My father's a firefighter. He was my whole life. And my brother-in-law and several family members are firefighters.
‐‐ Brad Paisley
My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.
‐‐ Saul Williams
My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy.
‐‐ Paul Walker
My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
‐‐ Aaron Paul
My father's an early aviator, and my first flight was with him at age two. Now, despite the fact that I got sick on the flight, I still enjoyed it, I believe.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin
My father's biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard. He taught me to love my country, and serve my country.
‐‐ Park Geun-hye
My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.
‐‐ Patti Davis
My father's coaching Misha and I just might help from time to time.
‐‐ Richard Krajicek
My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
‐‐ Zoe Wanamaker
My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.
‐‐ Brooke Shields
My father's death was the most terrible thing that happened to me in my life.
‐‐ Judy Garland
My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me.
‐‐ Ian Mcewan
My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.
‐‐ David Rudisha
'My Father's Eyes' is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes.
‐‐ Eric Clapton
My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.
‐‐ Ice T
My father's family can be traced back to 1400. I've been told by gypsies that there is unmistakeably gypsy blood in me. Lee is a gypsy name, you know.
‐‐ Christopher Lee
My father's family hails from Banaras. My grandfather taught mathematics at Banaras Hindu University. Banaras is also dedicated to Lord Shiva, home to one of the great jyotirlings, the Kashi Vishwanath temple.
‐‐ Amish Tripathi
My father's family was mostly obliterated in the Holocaust, and I grew up very much with the sense that the central moral and political question is how do we prevent these things from happening again.
‐‐ Joshua Oppenheimer
My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.
‐‐ Herbie Mann
My father's father wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and aspired to be a playwright. We had in our house a couple of crazy unproduced plays that he had written. For the one creative writing class I took in my life, I didn't do any writing - I decided that I would plagiarize his terrible play to not fail the class.
‐‐ Stephen Gaghan
My father's favorite movie was 'The Dirty Dozen.'
‐‐ Jared Kushner
My father's films are often very slow for the modern audiences, which are used to a lot of editing. It's the audience that watches the film instead of the director dictating the reaction he wants from you.
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini
My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I was born in Katmandu, lived there until I was eight, and then moved to Australia with my mother and father. So yeah, I'm very mixed up, been to many different schools.
‐‐ Dichen Lachman
My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.
‐‐ Paul Tsongas
My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.
‐‐ Nicholas Stern
My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind.
‐‐ Kate Christensen
My father's Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home.
‐‐ Ben Feldman
My father's like - it's as if he was transparent. He's a man of great mystery, whereas apparently N.C. Wyeth was 6-feet, 2-inches tall, with a booming voice. I think that's reflected in their work.
‐‐ Jamie Wyeth
My father's mother was a secular Jew who died in Auschwitz. I only found out as an adult because my father never talked about it. He was a secularist and never defined himself in ethnic terms - partly, I think, because he was scared; partly out of the habit of not talking of such things; partly because he didn't like being defined by other people.
‐‐ Pawel Pawlikowski
My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.
‐‐ Patti Smith