My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley
My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
‐‐ Nadia Bjorlin
My father's music was influential. My place is my place. I must be myself and who I am.
‐‐ Stephen Marley
My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'
‐‐ KaDee Strickland
My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pretty car, a beautiful woman and a slick sharkskin suit. Believe it or not, that's how I decided I wanted to get into music.
‐‐ Charlie Wilson
My father's own view was more than entrepreneurship; it was really a passion to build an institution in India.
‐‐ Nita Ambani
My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.
‐‐ Josef Albers
My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.
‐‐ Eric Cantona
My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.
‐‐ John C. Hawkes
My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.
‐‐ Robert Duvall
My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
‐‐ Hannah Storm
My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.
‐‐ Q'orianka Kilcher
My father's politics and ideas were, to me, unforgivable. He was a Jewish convert who became very anti-Semitic, and I didn't find the anti-Semitism forgivable.
‐‐ Mary Gordon
My father's really fluent in French, but I can't speak at all. I actually took it twice in school already and failed both times!
‐‐ Jean-Luc Bilodeau
My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.
‐‐ Keith Urban
My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.
‐‐ Madeleine Peyroux
My father's sister never married in order to raise me.
‐‐ Marcel Carne
My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley
My father's values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals. But this is not the ghost of my father running for the leadership of the Liberal party. This is me.
‐‐ Justin Trudeau
My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting a very private, solitary battle with mental illness.
‐‐ Shawn Amos
My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.
‐‐ Pat Conroy
My father's whole life was work. He had a retail store in Ossining, New York, and I mean, he was down there at 6:15 every morning. The store didn't open until 9, but he hadda be down there. That's all he knew.
‐‐ Peter Falk
My father's work is rather mysterious, not much said, and my grandfather's is robust, bursting off the walls.
‐‐ Jamie Wyeth
My father said, 'Aren't you going to do anything to help people? We have a whole rack of relatives who are always breaking the law. At least help your relatives.' And so that's what I did.
‐‐ Miriam Defensor-Santiago
My father said I should become a doctor and do science in my spare time, which in retrospect might not have been a bad idea, but I wasn't interested in taking care of people's ills.
‐‐ Sheldon Lee Glashow
My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.
‐‐ Diane Cilento
My father said, 'Son, when you grow up, I don't want you to be a member of a party that caters to the oppressed and the poor. You have to aspire to be a member of a party that is happy, winning and influential.'
‐‐ Hector Ruiz
My father said that I could always become an actress, but I couldn't go back to college later in life. So I had to first finish my education, and then I could do what I wanted. At the time, I was not pleased, but now, I can't thank him enough. My parents were absolutely right.
‐‐ Vidya Balan
My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
‐‐ Marlo Thomas
My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.
‐‐ Tess Gerritsen
My father said, 'You should do 'A Day in the Life of Medicine.' A book about how the human race wants to heal itself in new ways.
‐‐ Rick Smolan
My father Sam, by his lifelong example, displayed for me the virtues of an honest day's work and of great personal courage.
‐‐ Marv Levy
My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mistook him for Cary Grant and asked for his autograph.
‐‐ Alan Alda
My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.
‐‐ Lincoln Steffens
My father served 26 years in the Air Force as a pilot and a pioneer in our missile programs. I learned early about the sacrifices a family makes when a member is repeatedly deployed, and also the fulfillment that comes from serving our country. My brother, my son and I all became Marines.
‐‐ Jim Webb
My father served as an Army doctor in West Germany in the late '50s and early '60s. As a result, he and my mother - both native southerners - were acutely aware of what had happened during the Holocaust.
‐‐ Greg Iles
My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love. He just, he had a rough life. You know, he grew up in a boys home in the Bronx. He didn't really know his own family. So I couldn't hold it against him that he didn't know how to parent. He didn't know how to be the perfect husband. But he loved as much as he could.
‐‐ Hope Solo
My father, Simon Hoggart, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in June 2010. By this point, it had spread to his spleen and metastasised in his lungs and so was pronounced terminal.
‐‐ Amy Hoggart
My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.
‐‐ Louise Leakey
My father speaks for himself, through his music.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley
My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.
‐‐ Patti Davis
My father started his own business, and before that was a freelance lecturer, and my friends are artists and musicians; they don't have real jobs - none of us have real jobs.
‐‐ Rupert Friend
My father started me in football. So what better way is there to honor him than to wear his last name on my back and make him proud?
‐‐ Stefon Diggs
My father started me singing in church.
‐‐ DeForest Kelley
My father started out as a riveter, but he had the soul of an artist. He worshiped Shakespeare and had aspirations to be an actor. He claimed that from the first day he laid eyes on me, I was going to be this great dramatic actress.
‐‐ Christine Ebersole
My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
‐‐ Tamara Ecclestone
My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.
‐‐ Steve Case
My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia - and decided to take me along for company.
‐‐ Scott Anderson
My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.
‐‐ Albrecht Durer