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My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
CANDACE PARKER As a child, I was rather active for my age. Sensing something special about me, my father told me th...
SUNIL MITTAL![]()
I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
FRIDA KAHLO My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my f...
GREG ILES![]()
There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of sp...
ANA CASTILLO My dad did show me interesting movies at a young age. I remember he showed me 'A Clockwork Orang...
JONATHAN KRISEL![]()
My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life aft...
TRACY MORGAN![]()
My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never...
BRAD PITT![]()
My father believed in astrology. His astrologer had predicted that his daughter would become a write...
TWINKLE KHANNA![]()
My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.
DAVID GEFFEN![]()
I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. W...
BENJAMIN BRATT My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in...
NORMAN LAMM I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would t...
MAHESH BABU Life is like farting in front of someone and then trying to convince him, you didn't fart. It's hard...
ME Just look at what is spelled:
Hal Jordan
BrUce Wayne
Victor Stone
Clark KenT...
ME Realizing you have something in common with another person makes you more human than you were yester...
ME :) If a fangirl tells you she likes you, you better be happy. Her standards are very high.
ME![]()
My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my ...
GARY VAYNERCHUK The one thing I wanted most in life was for my dad to see me coaching in the Final Four. He won't ge...
TREVOR ADAIR![]()
The most important lesson my dad taught me was how to manage fear. Early on, he taught me that in a ...
RUDY GIULIANI My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an...
STEPHEN PAGLIUCA I definitely got my philanthropic genes from my mom and dad. They taught me from a very early age to...
REBECCA GAYHEART![]()
Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in th...
MIKE MYERS![]()
I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
NORMA SHEARER![]()
From as young as I can remember, I always wanted to be a singer... My mum taught me 'Going Down ...
KATHERINE JENKINS Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always...
ART ALEXAKIS![]()
My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age ...
MATTHEW MODINE My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately aft...
DANE COOK The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE![]()
The single life is bearable to me only through my work in science, but for the long term, it would b...
WERNER HEISENBERG My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd l...
CHRIS FROOME I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mi...
MARY GORDON![]()
Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was m...
LYLE LOVETT![]()
I stopped believing in santa clause when at age six my mother took me to a department store to see h...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE The things I wanted to do from a very early age - ie. get married and have children - precluded a lo...
TALULAH RILEY Nobody told me there was any idea for a sequel to 'The Exorcist.' But my agent called me to ...
MAX VON SYDOW I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree t...
FELICITY KENDAL I grew up with my parents in the kitchen discussing the audition my dad had that day or moaning abou...
BEL POWLEY![]()
The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but th...
XAVIER DOLAN It was my father who - after, at age 15, I had attempted unsuccessfully to drive the family car usin...
H. ROBERT HORVITZ![]()
I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believe...
KIM KARDASHIAN![]()
I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one h...
STEVE HARVEY I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great s...
OMAR SY I saw my dad playing and got interested in the game. My father taught me a few moves and my brother ...
MAGESH CHANDRAN PANCHANATHAN I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adole...
TUCKER ELLIOT![]()
I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for every...
GARY JOHNSON![]()
For a long time I wanted to do the kind of work my dad did. He was going to ask his foreman at the m...
RAYMOND CARVER I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from ...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE First of all, I was a good Christian kid. My mom and dad taught me never to fight. So I never fought...
FRANK PERETTI![]()
My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my...
KARAN JOHAR![]()
All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother...
BESS MYERSON![]()
I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD![]()
My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was tryi...
TYLER PERRY![]()
Unfortunately, my dad had a brain tumor, and my father-in-law passed away from leukemia, so I spend ...
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI I don't wear much make-up in my non-working life, though I love to dress up and put on a face fo...
DIANA QUICK I knew Sinatra for 38 years. He was like my father. Frank Sinatra was my 'dad.' He treated m...
TRINI LOPEZ![]()
Fortunately for me, I had a father who didn't let us get away with anything. You were taught res...
BENJAMIN WATSON My dad, coming from a very traditional family, always wanted me to be a doctor. So he would always a...
JANE CHEN![]()
My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.
BECKY G My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of ...
ALEXANDRA KOSTENIUK![]()
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe...
JOHNNY CASH![]()
When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didn't listen to music for four days - that's a...
CARLOS SANTANA Everything in my life boils down to my mother. A tradition, which a lot of people do not know of, is...
SONU NIGAM![]()
My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice pres...
J. J. WATT![]()
I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're ver...
BENJAMIN BRATT![]()
My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It d...
HOLLY MARIE COMBS![]()
It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything wort...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my con...
JERRY WEST![]()
Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish ...
JOHN C. REILLY Briseis blinked, shaking her head in disbelief. 'You have taken everything from me. My husband. My b...
JANELL RHIANNON![]()
My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first ...
WILMA RUDOLPH![]()
The name 'Wiz' comes from me being the youngest dude in my age group of people that I hung o...
WIZ KHALIFA I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very dif...
VANESSA KERRY![]()
When I was seven months pregnant with my son, my mother and I took a trip to El Salvador, where she&...
CHRISTY TURLINGTON My success set me up for life, and it meant that I could retire from the music industry at 27 to spe...
RICK ASTLEY![]()
[My brother] shaped my young life. First, he taught me how to walk. Then, armed with sticks and dead...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS My dad and I had been close - he called me Tuyet Bang, Vietnamese for 'avalanche,' because o...
MICHELLE PHAN![]()
When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with ...
TONY VISCONTI When I was a sophomore in college, my father called me at the fraternity. He told me he no longer ha...
TERRY J. LUNDGREN![]()
When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. ...
EDEN HAZARD Jesus Christ - He means the world to me. So many different situations I've been through, through...
ADRIAN PETERSON![]()
From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the str...
ORHAN PAMUK Especially when I was young, my dad taught me a lot of Latin.
CALEB MITCHUM My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very you...
AARON DIEHL I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I hadn't ever really told anyone. I'd always got quite...
KIMBERLEY NIXON From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always ...
GAVIN O'CONNOR My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my...
ARIEL WINTER![]()
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
QUENTIN CRISP I still remember how my father used to wake me up at 4 A.M. and make me study. He also used to take ...
MOUNI ROY My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor an...
LARRY FITZGERALD My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ...
PAUL GIAMATTI![]()
My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a ve...
SAM SHEPARD![]()
I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting m...
DAN STEVENS![]()
I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me...
IVANA TRUMP![]()
I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said t...
RALPH NADER The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE [My dad] didn't do much apart from the traditional winning of bread. He didn't take me to get my hai...
MICHAEL CHABON
CANDACE PARKER As a child, I was rather active for my age. Sensing something special about me, my father told me th...
SUNIL MITTAL
I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me. FRIDA KAHLO My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my f...
GREG ILES
There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of sp... ANA CASTILLO My dad did show me interesting movies at a young age. I remember he showed me 'A Clockwork Orang...
JONATHAN KRISEL
My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life aft... TRACY MORGAN
My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never... BRAD PITT
My father believed in astrology. His astrologer had predicted that his daughter would become a write... TWINKLE KHANNA
My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her. DAVID GEFFEN
I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. W... BENJAMIN BRATT My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in...
NORMAN LAMM I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would t...
MAHESH BABU Life is like farting in front of someone and then trying to convince him, you didn't fart. It's hard...
ME Just look at what is spelled:
Hal Jordan
BrUce Wayne
Victor Stone
Clark KenT...
ME Realizing you have something in common with another person makes you more human than you were yester...
ME :) If a fangirl tells you she likes you, you better be happy. Her standards are very high.
ME
My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my ... GARY VAYNERCHUK The one thing I wanted most in life was for my dad to see me coaching in the Final Four. He won't ge...
TREVOR ADAIR
The most important lesson my dad taught me was how to manage fear. Early on, he taught me that in a ... RUDY GIULIANI My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an...
STEPHEN PAGLIUCA I definitely got my philanthropic genes from my mom and dad. They taught me from a very early age to...
REBECCA GAYHEART
Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in th... MIKE MYERS
I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin. NORMA SHEARER
From as young as I can remember, I always wanted to be a singer... My mum taught me 'Going Down ... KATHERINE JENKINS Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always...
ART ALEXAKIS
My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age ... MATTHEW MODINE My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately aft...
DANE COOK The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE
The single life is bearable to me only through my work in science, but for the long term, it would b... WERNER HEISENBERG My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd l...
CHRIS FROOME I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mi...
MARY GORDON
Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was m... LYLE LOVETT
I stopped believing in santa clause when at age six my mother took me to a department store to see h... SHIRLEY TEMPLE The things I wanted to do from a very early age - ie. get married and have children - precluded a lo...
TALULAH RILEY Nobody told me there was any idea for a sequel to 'The Exorcist.' But my agent called me to ...
MAX VON SYDOW I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree t...
FELICITY KENDAL I grew up with my parents in the kitchen discussing the audition my dad had that day or moaning abou...
BEL POWLEY
The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but th... XAVIER DOLAN It was my father who - after, at age 15, I had attempted unsuccessfully to drive the family car usin...
H. ROBERT HORVITZ
I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believe... KIM KARDASHIAN
I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one h... STEVE HARVEY I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great s...
OMAR SY I saw my dad playing and got interested in the game. My father taught me a few moves and my brother ...
MAGESH CHANDRAN PANCHANATHAN I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adole...
TUCKER ELLIOT
I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for every... GARY JOHNSON
For a long time I wanted to do the kind of work my dad did. He was going to ask his foreman at the m... RAYMOND CARVER I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from ...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE First of all, I was a good Christian kid. My mom and dad taught me never to fight. So I never fought...
FRANK PERETTI
My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my... KARAN JOHAR
All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother... BESS MYERSON
I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke... SUGAR RAY LEONARD
My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was tryi... TYLER PERRY
Unfortunately, my dad had a brain tumor, and my father-in-law passed away from leukemia, so I spend ... ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI I don't wear much make-up in my non-working life, though I love to dress up and put on a face fo...
DIANA QUICK I knew Sinatra for 38 years. He was like my father. Frank Sinatra was my 'dad.' He treated m...
TRINI LOPEZ
Fortunately for me, I had a father who didn't let us get away with anything. You were taught res... BENJAMIN WATSON My dad, coming from a very traditional family, always wanted me to be a doctor. So he would always a...
JANE CHEN
My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs. BECKY G My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of ...
ALEXANDRA KOSTENIUK
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... JOHNNY CASH
When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didn't listen to music for four days - that's a... CARLOS SANTANA Everything in my life boils down to my mother. A tradition, which a lot of people do not know of, is...
SONU NIGAM
My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice pres... J. J. WATT
I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're ver... BENJAMIN BRATT
My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It d... HOLLY MARIE COMBS
It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything wort... DANIEL DAY-LEWIS When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my con...
JERRY WEST
Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish ... JOHN C. REILLY Briseis blinked, shaking her head in disbelief. 'You have taken everything from me. My husband. My b...
JANELL RHIANNON
My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first ... WILMA RUDOLPH
The name 'Wiz' comes from me being the youngest dude in my age group of people that I hung o... WIZ KHALIFA I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very dif...
VANESSA KERRY
When I was seven months pregnant with my son, my mother and I took a trip to El Salvador, where she&... CHRISTY TURLINGTON My success set me up for life, and it meant that I could retire from the music industry at 27 to spe...
RICK ASTLEY
[My brother] shaped my young life. First, he taught me how to walk. Then, armed with sticks and dead... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS My dad and I had been close - he called me Tuyet Bang, Vietnamese for 'avalanche,' because o...
MICHELLE PHAN
When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with ... TONY VISCONTI When I was a sophomore in college, my father called me at the fraternity. He told me he no longer ha...
TERRY J. LUNDGREN
When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. ... EDEN HAZARD Jesus Christ - He means the world to me. So many different situations I've been through, through...
ADRIAN PETERSON
From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the str... ORHAN PAMUK Especially when I was young, my dad taught me a lot of Latin.
CALEB MITCHUM My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very you...
AARON DIEHL I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I hadn't ever really told anyone. I'd always got quite...
KIMBERLEY NIXON From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always ...
GAVIN O'CONNOR My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my...
ARIEL WINTER
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. QUENTIN CRISP I still remember how my father used to wake me up at 4 A.M. and make me study. He also used to take ...
MOUNI ROY My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor an...
LARRY FITZGERALD My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ...
PAUL GIAMATTI
My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a ve... SAM SHEPARD
I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting m... DAN STEVENS
I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me... IVANA TRUMP
I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said t... RALPH NADER The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE [My dad] didn't do much apart from the traditional winning of bread. He didn't take me to get my hai...
MICHAEL CHABON
I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times. 
It's what I tell my daughters: Know that your birthright is to shine your light, and don't l... 
She was exhausted from her own self-deprecation and inner turmoil. 
I pledge to keep you safe. 
My personal decorating style is cozy, romantic and a little rustic, with a sense of whimsy. 
I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my... 
I have a 4-year-old and a 14-year-old, and think I missed a recital and a graduation, and they were ... 
Whatever it is that I feel, I express it! I am free with my joy, my laughter, my pleasure, my pain, ... 
My hubby makes a mean salmon steak at the grill, but he leaves all the sides up to me. I love to gri... 
I juggle a lot of different balls and sometimes I don't know how I manage to keep them all up in... 
In the South, I think, food mirrors our lives. When I was growing up, no matter what you were grievi... 