All Quotes

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.
‐‐ Bruce Campbell

My father was in the army, and there wasn't too much money. Yet, we learnt to enjoy the small pleasures of life, to look at the positives.
‐‐ Suresh Raina

My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.
‐‐ Suzan-Lori Parks

My father was in the army, and you know not to talk about things on the telephone that you wouldn't want to hear transmitted.
‐‐ Tom Parker Bowles

My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.
‐‐ Honor Blackman

My father was in the coal and heating business, and he wanted me to take over his business, and I resented every moment of it. So I would never force my kids to do what I do.
‐‐ Jean-Georges Vongerichten

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.
‐‐ John Knowles

My father was in the First World War.
‐‐ Doris Lessing

My father was in the paper recycling business back before they called it recycling.
‐‐ Daniel Keyes

My father was indeed a musician, but he was a weekend warrior. He was a welder, actually, and worked all his life at the Ironworks in Beloit Wisconsin, and he played in a swing band on weekends.
‐‐ Robin Zander

My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

My father was interested in justice, always working for people who needed to be supported.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.
‐‐ John Sebastian

My father was judgmental and kind of mean, and I'm like that. And he was very perfectionistic, and I'm like that. And he was very hard on himself, and I'm like that.
‐‐ Susanna Kaysen

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.
‐‐ Jean-Marie Le Pen

My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace cafe to a beautiful view. And as an actor, I loathe improvisation because there's no structure and no one knows what's going on.
‐‐ Olivia Williams

My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films.
‐‐ Celina Jade

My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, he became a father figure to me. I would have done anything for my brother - I loved him so much.
‐‐ Gregg Allman

My father was my first inspiration. He had an incredible stereo and a turntable, and I was told not to touch it. But I'd go back and touch it anyway. I gained a respect for the turntables when I was a kid. When I was a teenager, I came up with a 'cueing system' to work the turntables because they didn't have it at that time.
‐‐ Grandmaster Flash

My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.
‐‐ Nathaniel Kahn

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.
‐‐ David Soul

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
‐‐ Beau Bridges

My father was my trainer, my teacher. He was closer to my sister in the sense that she adored him and he adored her. He was more like my pal. Because of the 13-year gap, I think by the time I came along, it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't spoilt or cherished, I was just put to work.
‐‐ Felicity Kendal

My father was never anti-anything in our house.
‐‐ Errol Flynn

My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
‐‐ Ram Kapoor

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.
‐‐ Hope Solo

My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was in Cleveland, on business. Sometimes, every six months or so, he would come by for dinner.
‐‐ Danny Aiello

My father was not a bully. I almost never heard him raise his voice to anybody.
‐‐ Ron Reagan

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
‐‐ Harry S Truman

My father was not a political animal.
‐‐ Mickey Kaus

My father was not going to let me sit back and just consume my blessings. He wanted me to contribute, and to do that, you have to be mission-oriented.
‐‐ Cory Booker

My father was not prone to worship, but he worshiped Arthur Sulzberger.
‐‐ Andrew Rosenthal

My father was not really into popular music; I had to learn about that for myself.
‐‐ Todd Rundgren

My father was often angry when I was most like him.
‐‐ Lillian Hellman

My father was often away with the army, or in London, but mum did a lot of the cooking. She never liked cakes - not baking. Meat. Fish. That's what she did.
‐‐ Tom Parker Bowles

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.
‐‐ Kenneth G. Wilson

My father was on the Judiciary Committee all 18 years. He had a good personal relationship with Jim Eastland. They probably didn't agree on practically anything, or very little, from a public policy standpoint. But they were willing to work through that to see what they could get done just because they knew each other and liked each other.
‐‐ Evan Bayh

My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she became a stay-at-home mother.
‐‐ Siobhan Fallon Hogan

My father was one of ten children.
‐‐ Brian Sandoval

My father was one of the first six guys ashore on Iwo Jima. He's 86 years old now, and every single night of his life, he has nightmares, and he wakes yelling.
‐‐ Jeff Lindsay

My father was one of the fortunate wartime servicemen: he made a full recovery from his injuries, was promoted to captain, survived the war, had a satisfying career as a colonial officer and, eventually, died in February 2002, a month before his 85th birthday.
‐‐ Michael Ashcroft

My father was one of the greatest professional bowlers of all time. Seriously. Billy Hardwick: PBA Hall of Fame, Player of the Year in '63 and '69, and the first winner of the triple crown of bowling, among other things.
‐‐ Chris Hardwick

My father was one tough man.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney

My father was only thirty-one when he died of a heart attack, much too young for a father to die and leave his young wife with five rambunctious little kids to take care of. I was the youngest. Only a couple of months old when he died.
‐‐ Lewis B. Smedes

My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
‐‐ Flea

My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.
‐‐ Macaulay Culkin

My father was placid and easygoing. He owned a small shoe store where I helped out on Saturdays. I think he'd have been pleased if I'd made a career of working in the shoe store. But my mother was ambitious. She encouraged us to read books, and she pushed us toward a musical education.
‐‐ Alan W. Livingston

My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.
‐‐ Antonio Villaraigosa