All Quotes

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.
‐‐ Tunde Adebimpe

My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took vacation jobs there as a nursing assistant. So I did get to see mental illness, but I don't remember conversations about mental conditions. My father was a cheerful man with a robust attitude to such things.
‐‐ Morag Joss

My father was a public figure all my life, and so the presidency was an extension of that. I guess you get used to it, though you can stand back occasionally and think, 'Boy, this is really weird!'
‐‐ Ron Reagan

My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at 16.
‐‐ David Steinberg

My father was a racetrack bookie.
‐‐ Peter O'Toole

My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become a comedian and a comedy writer, so to say that he's somewhat of a mythic figure in my life would be an understatement.
‐‐ Carol Leifer

My father was a really good athlete, so his pop-ups really were sky high. Eventually I learned how to judge them properly and catch them well. It was great training for when I started to play on teams, which I did all through school.
‐‐ Artie Lange

My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitiously, either while we were driving around or at dinner, and in 1963 he and I made up a story about a brother and a sister, Lisa and Matt, having an adventure out in the woods with animals.
‐‐ Matt Groening

My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned.
‐‐ Hanya Yanagihara

My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

My father was a restaurant man, laundry man in his lifetime. And I've often wondered how and why did I become an actor? Where did I get the so-called talent to express myself? And I look back, and I see that my mother was very animated. I can remember that she used to, what she called 'bei zhu.'
‐‐ James Hong

My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.
‐‐ Ernesto Bertarelli

My father was a salesman, and I always said I wouldn't be one.
‐‐ Daniel Woodrell

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.
‐‐ Simon van der Meer

My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world.
‐‐ Maria Semple

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
‐‐ Sadie Jones

My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.
‐‐ Joseph C. Lincoln

My father was a security guard. I was a security guard.
‐‐ Susana Martinez

My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.
‐‐ Michael Bergin

My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to shearing shed. My mother always wanted us to be educated, so I went to a school.
‐‐ Jason Clarke

My father was a singer. So it just kind of happened that one Sunday while my dad was singing, I just walked out and stood next to him, and I started singing the song that he was leading, and I sang it in perfect pitch.
‐‐ Marvin Sapp

My father was a small-businessman, and if he didn't get up and go to work, there would be no business.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.
‐‐ Steve Nash

My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
‐‐ Zaha Hadid

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.
‐‐ Jim Fowler

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
‐‐ Mary Wesley

My father was a soldier. He was a frogman in the special forces in Denmark before I was born, and always the reality of that inspired me. My mom is very left-wing, classic socialist, and she always talked about the solders as almost crazy, violent, sick people, and I want to confront that because its very judgmental, and I'm not sure it's true.
‐‐ Tobias Lindholm

My father was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mother rode a horse and sang in the Governor-General's band, so that made her important as well.
‐‐ Spike Milligan

My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
‐‐ Edmund White

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
‐‐ Indira Gandhi

My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.
‐‐ John E. Walker

My father was a successful entrepreneur.
‐‐ Charlie Trotter

My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person.
‐‐ Donald Trump

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.
‐‐ Gordon Ramsay

My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.
‐‐ David Bailey

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.
‐‐ Nick Cave

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
‐‐ C. L. R. James

My father was a television director, and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry, but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.
‐‐ Philip Glenister

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it.
‐‐ Zubin Mehta

My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk.
‐‐ Lindsay Fox

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.
‐‐ Honeysuckle Weeks

My father was a very contradictory man.
‐‐ John Malkovich

My father was a very difficult man.
‐‐ Sade Adu

My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.
‐‐ Bobby McFerrin

My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn't like people who had no sense of humour.
‐‐ Mike Myers

My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
‐‐ Bill Nye

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.
‐‐ Jonathan Ive

My father was a very good golfer and he got me started early. My grandfather played, too. It was just something that the Kroft family did. I kind of grew up on the golf course.
‐‐ Steve Kroft