All Quotes

My father was a little frightening - a huge man, six foot four - and he looked like God. He was always a visitor, as far as I was concerned, because my parents separated when I was nine. We only became friends when he was old and began to shrink. During the war, he was a BBC war correspondent and did some extraordinary broadcasts.
‐‐ Jennifer Johnston

My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.
‐‐ Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

My father was a low-budget monster movie maker, so he made classics like 'The Crater Lake Monster.' There were always creatures around. And my dad was a huge fan of Ray Harryhausen. One of our neighbors, who went on to win several Academy Awards, was close friends with my dad. His name is Phil Tippett.
‐‐ Robert Stromberg

My father was a man of few words.
‐‐ Ken Venturi

My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.
‐‐ Saint Teresa of Avila

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.
‐‐ Johnny Cash

My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own.
‐‐ Phil Jackson

My father was a manual worker.
‐‐ Diane Abbott

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.
‐‐ Hilda Solis

My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
‐‐ T. D. Jakes

My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.
‐‐ Donna Mills

My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.
‐‐ Edgar Ramirez

My father was a military judge, and my mother was a psychiatric social worker. My brother and sister and I were moved around constantly, in and outside the U.S., living in Germany for much of our teens.
‐‐ Julianne Moore

My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.
‐‐ Karl Malden

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
‐‐ Tori Amos

My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.
‐‐ Dorothy Malone

My father was a misanthrope who slept all day and stayed up all night so that he wouldn't have to see people. He ran a business with a large staff but would go there at night and leave things for them to do during the day when he wasn't there.
‐‐ Edmund White

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.
‐‐ Alejandro Jodorowsky

My father was a motor mechanic, and my mother a homemaker. We moved to Bath when I was four, and so I consider myself a Bathonian.
‐‐ Richard J. Roberts

My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.
‐‐ Jacky Ickx

My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: 'You know there's no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won't.' I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

My father was a newspaper editor, so I was surrounded by journalists my entire life. I think the fact that he was so well known may be why I chose to go into magazines and move to the States at a young age.
‐‐ Anna Wintour

My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first.
‐‐ Arsenio Hall

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.
‐‐ David Johansen

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.
‐‐ Roald Dahl

My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.
‐‐ Sadie Frost

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
‐‐ N. Scott Momaday

My father was a painter, so I was encouraged to take a sketchbook everywhere. Cameras are perishable, but I still have tonnes of sketchbooks from all the trips I've ever been on. It gets you by when you don't know what to give people as a gift; drawings are good souvenirs.
‐‐ Jane Birkin

My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My family knew a lot of great folk musicians of the time, like Woody Guthrie, Paul Robeson, Leadbelly. They were all people we knew.
‐‐ Alan Arkin

My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.
‐‐ Mikhail Baryshnikov

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.
‐‐ George Weinberg

My father was a Pentecostal minister; that's how I was brought up. So I never thought of having a secular career.
‐‐ Darlene Love

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.
‐‐ Joan Baez

My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.
‐‐ Natalie Cole

My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.
‐‐ Ryan Reynolds

My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
‐‐ Zaha Hadid

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.
‐‐ Tori Amos

My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.
‐‐ James Green Somerville

My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.
‐‐ Alex Grey

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
‐‐ Eric Allin Cornell

My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship with them, and the only argument we had was when I went to university and wanted to go into the theater instead of studying to be a lawyer.
‐‐ Max von Sydow

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico. Then I moved back to Kenya shortly after I turned one, and I grew up in Kenya.
‐‐ Lupita Nyong'o

My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough.
‐‐ Andrew Taylor Still

My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.
‐‐ Jermaine Dupri

My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm during the summer time.
‐‐ Jenkin Lloyd Jones