All Quotes

My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
‐‐ Val Kilmer

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.
‐‐ Herbie Hancock

My father was second-generation Chinese-American, born in 1923 in California. My mother emigrated to the States from China when she was in her early twenties, in part to escape the political turmoil in China.
‐‐ Tess Gerritsen

My father was short for a man, with a child's plaything for a name - Spinner. He had flawless dark brown skin and a head full of big, wet-looking curls, black as oil. And he had the smile of a scoundrel - the kind of smile that disarmed men and undressed women.
‐‐ Charles M. Blow

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.
‐‐ Sherman Alexie

My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.
‐‐ Lincoln Steffens

My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.
‐‐ Jane Pauley

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.
‐‐ Gordon Getty

My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us.
‐‐ Ta-Nehisi Coates

My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.
‐‐ Marc Davis

My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.
‐‐ Lawrence Eagleburger

My father was strict and always taught me, no matter who it is, everybody is an uncle. To me, everybody was someone I respect like family. I grew up with that.
‐‐ Mariano Rivera

My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
‐‐ Tori Amos

My father was the artistic one. At a very young age, my father realised I had a strong voice and made me learn Hindustani vocal. I was five. I have Dad to thank for introducing me to the finer things in life.
‐‐ Lillete Dubey

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.
‐‐ Ang Lee

My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.
‐‐ Tom Wolfe

My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing he ever knew.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.
‐‐ Chief Joseph

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.
‐‐ Ricky Jay

My father was the funniest guy I ever met. I'm not sure if I stole his stuff or if I inherited it.
‐‐ Chevy Chase

My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.
‐‐ Henry Louis Gates

My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.
‐‐ Damon Wayans

My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it.'
‐‐ Carol Leifer

My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.
‐‐ Carol Leifer

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
‐‐ Simon Newcomb

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.
‐‐ George J. Mitchell

My father was the president of the Hearst Corporation, and my parents were close friends of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and they all had pugs.
‐‐ Brigid Berlin

My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics.
‐‐ Benazir Bhutto

My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
‐‐ E. L. Doctorow

My father was the quintessential husband and dad.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me, he was still a rock star.
‐‐ Tracy Morgan

My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.
‐‐ Ernest Istook

My father was the superintendent of the churches in the state of Montana. He was content in his beliefs. He befit the term 'true Christian.' He would turn the other cheek. He was truly a man of peace.
‐‐ Phil Jackson

My father was the youngest of seven, and nobody lived to be 60. And so we were always sitting shiva in my house, and my father would say, 'Life goes on.'
‐‐ Judy Blume

My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making what he should have. He had to split it with five brothers. So I made up my mind: I was going to go on my own and make my own money.
‐‐ Alan C. Greenberg

My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was.
‐‐ John Burnside

My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.
‐‐ Dominick Dunne

My father was this huge, influential intellectual in the '60s and '70s. He was one of the main players in the cultural discussion in Sweden, the editor of papers.
‐‐ David Lagercrantz

My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.
‐‐ James Cagney

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.
‐‐ Aaron Klug

My father was truly a great man. I remember one day putting my feet in my father's shoes. I was amazed at the size. Would I ever be big enough to fill his shoes? Could I ever grow into the man my father was? I wondered.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.
‐‐ John Hume

My father was unwell when I was 11, had a stroke at 14 and died when I was 18. My mother going to work at seven in the morning and coming back to look after him and me and my brother left its mark on me.
‐‐ John Caudwell

My father was very big on marriage.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

My father was very bright. My mother had enormous drive. Put that together, and that's my gene pool.
‐‐ Stephen A. Schwarzman

My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, 'Why don't you be a lawyer, a doctor, or something more important?' They never said that.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.
‐‐ Naomi Shihab Nye