All Quotes

My father used to be away for months at a time, and he'd never leave any money for food, so my brother and I had to go out and nick it.
‐‐ Norman Wisdom

My father used to call me 'bird bones' and, well, the name fits.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

My father used to call me the laughing hyena.
‐‐ Phyllis Diller

My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.'
‐‐ Annalena McAfee

My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in your community.'
‐‐ Joe Biden

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
‐‐ Harmon Killebrew

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.
‐‐ Jason Statham

My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'
‐‐ Cary Grant

My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
‐‐ Marianne Moore

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'
‐‐ Michael Jordan

My father used to say, 'Well, Ann, maybe the best thing you'll ever do, you haven't even thought of yet.'
‐‐ Ann Curry

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
‐‐ Yancy Butler

My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.
‐‐ Jack McDevitt

My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down the lyrics of all of my favourite songs, and sing along. I was always singing in my bedroom with a hairbrush.
‐‐ Bonnie Tyler

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
‐‐ Youssou N'Dour

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.
‐‐ Adam Sandler

My father usually does not talk to me about my films, and it was a pleasant moment when he appreciated me the first time.
‐‐ Mahesh Babu

My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.
‐‐ Thomas Steinbeck

My father values talent. He is colorblind and gender neutral. When Donald Trump is in charge, all that counts is ability, excellence, and effort.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

My father... very generous, very philanthropic, very charitable man. My siblings and I and my mother continue with always appreciating and always giving back. It's something I hope that I've become a role model for my children.
‐‐ Steve Tisch

My father volunteered in early 1941, before Pearl Harbor, and became an officer in the U.S. Navy. As I was growing up, he taught me the responsibility of command: A leader is ultimately responsible for every aspect of the welfare of people under his or her care. That was a deeply felt obligation in his generation.
‐‐ Chesley Sullenberger

My father wanted a boy. I was supposed to be called Albert. That was probably the beginning of why things got so complicated, because I wasn't a boy.
‐‐ Anouska Hempel

My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.
‐‐ Claude Chabrol

My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
‐‐ Karan Johar

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
‐‐ John Major

My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.
‐‐ Joe Wright

My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

My father was a Baptist preacher, and he used to read the King James Bible to me every single morning. He made me memorize it and repeat verses at night before I went to sleep.
‐‐ Jay Parini

My father was a beautiful man.
‐‐ Shania Twain

My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them. And Bruce Lee was amazing.
‐‐ Jason Scott Lee

My father was a big influence - it was very important to him that we traveled, and he gave me my strong work ethic.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson

My father was a brew master. He was the one who I was very close to, he influenced me in many many ways including my pursuing a career as a brew master.
‐‐ Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

My father was a bullfighter.
‐‐ Paz Vega

My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, and philosophy, so I became interested in the protest aspect of Latin American art.
‐‐ Jorge M. Perez

My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.
‐‐ John Cullum

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.
‐‐ Quincy Jones

My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.
‐‐ Jared Harris

My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

My father was a chef but hadn't owned his own business. I didn't like that. In my heart of hearts, I knew I wanted to be in business.
‐‐ Andrew Cherng

My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife.
‐‐ George Akerlof

My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues.
‐‐ John Hume

My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
‐‐ Naveen Jain

My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.
‐‐ Hanif Kureishi

My father was a classic intellectual. From him I learned devotion, and I also learned about the life of the mind.
‐‐ Brian Dennehy

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.
‐‐ John Sebastian

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.
‐‐ Carly Simon

My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.
‐‐ Antonia Thomas

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
‐‐ George McGovern