My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anything valuable which I may have acquired in my youth. He was my only intelligent companion, and was both a watchful parent and an affectionate friend.
‐‐ John Marshall
My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.
‐‐ Bram Cohen
My father taught me how to draw horses - for this I shall be eternally grateful.
‐‐ Alexa Chung
My father taught me how to fight when I was 5.
‐‐ Chuck Zito
My father taught me how to substitute realities.
‐‐ Mira Sorvino
My father taught me, in boxing, that when you - particularly when you get hit in the face for the first time - you're going to panic. That instead of panicking, just accept it. Stay calm. And any time anybody hits you, they always leave themselves open to be hit.
‐‐ Rudy Giuliani
My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.
‐‐ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best.
‐‐ Scott Eastwood
My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
‐‐ Sam Abell
My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things.
‐‐ Diego Della Valle
My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'
‐‐ Ken Venturi
My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
‐‐ Pete Rose
My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.
‐‐ Mohamed ElBaradei
My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong.
‐‐ Richard Griffiths
My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.
‐‐ Matthew Modine
My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.
‐‐ Ethel Merman
My father taught me you have to believe in yourself and run on your own track.
‐‐ Jennifer Grey
My father taught my siblings and me the importance of positive values and a strong ethical compass. He showed us how to be resilient, how to deal with challenges, and how to strive for excellence in all that we do. He taught us that there's nothing that we cannot accomplish if we marry vision and passion with an enduring work ethic.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump
My father taught only math.
‐‐ John Updike
My father taught us that to thrive, excellence in technology, quality, and customer service along with cost competitiveness is a prerequisite. His contribution to business, the economy, and society at large can never be underscored enough.
‐‐ Kumar Mangalam Birla
My father Ted fought in North Africa, Italy, and Germany during World War II. My grandfather survived the horrors of the trenches in World War I. I truly believe that one of the E.U.'s greatest achievements is that it has kept its members out of conflict in Europe.
‐‐ Richard Branson
My father - the late Madhavrao Scindia - was clear about the distinction between being 'loving' and 'strict.'
‐‐ Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.
‐‐ Lincoln Steffens
My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.
‐‐ Georg Brandes
My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If we do not have a system of justice that people believe in, the system of democracy will fail.
‐‐ Henning Mankell
My father thought Gandhi was a great man. I suppose subconsciously, consciously even, I was aware that I wanted to please him and Ma, so I thought doing something like 'Gandhi' would be phenomenal.
‐‐ Richard Attenborough
My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman.
‐‐ Thomas Steinbeck
My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.
‐‐ Saul Leiter
My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
‐‐ Haile Gebrselassie
My father told me about American democracy. And he said you have to be actively engaged in the political process to make our democracy work. So I've been doing that my entire life. Civil rights movement. The peace movement during the Vietnam conflict. The movement to get an apology and redress for Japanese-Americans.
‐‐ George Takei
My father told me abuse is generational.
‐‐ Glenn Beck
My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.'
‐‐ Dave Chappelle
My father told me, never have partners.
‐‐ Howard Hughes
My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice.
‐‐ Iris Apfel
My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.
‐‐ Sam Raimi
My father told me when I went to college that I needed to take an accounting class. I enrolled and went the first day. I didn't understand a thing that was being said and dropped the class. I really regret that decision. I should have stuck it out and learned the basics of accounting, but I took the easy way out.
‐‐ Georgina Bloomberg
My father told me you have two loves in your life: What you do and the people you're with.
‐‐ Mario Van Peebles
My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better you get at it. It's like bull-riding. You can't do it once, you know. You've got to practice it and practice it.
‐‐ Thomas Steinbeck
My father Tom was a workaholic who never missed a single one of my sporting events for nearly two decades, and imparted in me a sense of risk and adventure. Being the one in the middle, I had more room to drift, and after college, I left the U.S. for Chile.
‐‐ Jonathan Franklin
My father, Tommy, who was a trained draughtsman, played for Preston North End in the Finney era. He liked football but did not love it as I do.
‐‐ Mark Lawrenson
My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.
‐‐ Gregory Corso
My father took me to my first game in 1971, and I fell in love with the Redskins and the NFL right then. I was hooked. And we didn't even win that game.
‐‐ Daniel Snyder
My father took one of the toughest jobs in the government because he cared about his nation more than himself. His courage and conviction have always driven me to want to make a difference.
‐‐ Pardis Sabeti
My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.
‐‐ Damon Lindelof
My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan
My father used to act in high school. He was in a production of 'Othello;' I don't know who he played, but it wasn't Othello. He would talk about it, though, and read Shakespeare to me.
‐‐ Lupita Nyong'o
My father used to administer herbal medicine for free. But I can't give drugs for free. So the next best thing is to give it at as low a price as possible.
‐‐ Kallam Anji Reddy
My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every year.
‐‐ Amar'e Stoudemire
My father used to always say to me that, you know, if a guy goes out to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, they'll give him 10 years, but a guy can do white-collar crime and steal the money of thousands and he'll get probation and a slap on the wrist.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura