My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.
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Related I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing h... DAN HILL When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." M... KIRAN DESAI What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown... RAHUL GANDHI My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, h... GREGG ALLMAN My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called... ED BRADLEY My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago. DONALD JOHANSON My uncle was a second father to me. I spent most of my childhood with him. REY MYSTERIO My father could be very strict, but very fair. His father was the same. We all respected my grandfat... AZZEDINE ALAIA When my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1991, I asked him if he had any regrets, and he... MICHELLE PAVER My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died ... DAMIAN MARLEY My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea... WALTER MOSLEY My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer - but it was because of what my... HENRY FORD I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... JOHNNY CASH My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My fat... DONALD TRUMP I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. PARIS JACKSON 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 was often angry when I was most like him. LILLIAN HELLMAN My fondest memory of Tupac is my father producing 'Toss It Up' for him when I was 7 years ol... DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... JOHNNY CASH My father (Riles Johnson) was active in politics, and brought me into it when I was 8 years old, JACK JOHNSON "Who hates his neighbor has not the rights of a child." And not only has he no rights as a child, he... SØREN KIERKEGAARD I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. SIDNEY POITIER My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to ... KING GEORGE V When I was a young kid, my father was a big fan of Hollywood movies. He would make me watch movies w... LEE BYUNG-HUN I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father. RICHARD LLEWELLYN When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with ... TONY VISCONTI My father would pick me up and hold me high in the air. He dominated my life as long as he lived, an... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I had a Jewish grandfather. We managed to hide this fact from the authorities by falsifying document... HELMUT SCHMIDT My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life.... APOLO OHNO My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parent... BEVERLY SILLS My father was truly a great man. I remember one day putting my feet in my father's shoes. I was ... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of t... TERI GARR My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day. DAVID AYER I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an ... FRIDA GIANNINI I can't even give my father a proper gift. Every single Father's Day means so much to me. I&... KYRIE IRVING My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural... NATHANIEL KAHN As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial ... JACKIE CHAN I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled... CHIEF JOSEPH It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that ... DAWN FRENCH I'm sure he knows this, but my father passed away this summer and (Davis is) like a father figure to... ROBERT VADEN Everybody knew my father. He wasn't a troublemaker. My father was working. He didn't bother anybody.... JOSE SERVELLON My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dre... RAM KAPOOR Jem told me what Ragnor Fell said about my father,” Will said. “That for my father, there was on... CASSANDRA CLARE When I was a little child, my parents taught me by example to pray. I began with a picture in my min... HENRY B. EYRING I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, b... VINCE CABLE I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero... DAVE BRUBECK [But his father begged him not to publish the book.] L.B. Mayer called me a traitor, ... 'I blame yo... BUDD SCHULBERG He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such ... RONAN FARROW My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied wit... TA-NEHISI COATES I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to liv... RUDY GIULIANI He was simply a man ahead of his time. He was the second of two men I knew who never had any prejudi... BUCK O'NEIL When I was a teenager, my stern and meticulous father, whom I regarded as well-spirited of his disce... JECON B. NADELA I had a very bad year in my life. My mother died in February. I was 16 in April and graduated from h... JAMES ROUSE When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend m... CAMILLE PAGLIA Before I was born my father disowned me. You know those ones who get the females pregnant, and then ... DREXEL DEAL My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he becam... IYANLA VANZANT The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but th... XAVIER DOLAN I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ... WALTER DEAN MYERS I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would t... MAHESH BABU As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurio... GEORGE MULLER My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing. GEORGE KENNEDY I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did mo... ROBERT H. GRUBBS At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking bac... DWYANE WADE I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father a... RENE AUBERJONOIS I knew Sinatra for 38 years. He was like my father. Frank Sinatra was my 'dad.' He treated m... TRINI LOPEZ My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle... DAVID CASSIDY I don't talk about it. But when I was a little girl, my father was abusive when he drank and seemed ... ELIZABETH TAYLOR My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and cal... CHELSEA HANDLER I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my fath... STEVEN SPIELBERG As a child, I was rather active for my age. Sensing something special about me, my father told me th... SUNIL MITTAL Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia. ADELAIDE CLEMENS Did he show himself?” Nash asked, and I glanced to my right to see him staring at my father, as fa... RACHEL VINCENT My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mis... ALAN ALDA My father was a doctor, and I admired him and got along well with him. He took me with him on house ... LEWIS THOMAS I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali... NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN My father smoked cigars his whole life, and my husband once in a while does. And when he does, it re... ANGELA AHRENDTS With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure t... JACQUES VILLENEUVE He became a father-figure to me. He was a big part of my life. DAVE FLEMING I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very dif... VANESSA KERRY Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf... ALICE SEBOLD I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His ow... SACHIN TENDULKAR I started boxing when I was 5 years old because my father was a boxer. He taught me how to fight. MANNAA MANNAA My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old. NATALIE GULBIS He was like twitching and frothing and it was my father, ... I went like all pale. I felt all the bl... JOHN LEGUIZAMO Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my... DORIS EATON TRAVIS My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ... PAUL GIAMATTI I would have been willing to do anything for my father. I would have moved in with my father to look... BRUCE PALTROW My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little. HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS My father used to work here, back when it was The Toronto Telegram. These remind me of him. DAVID CRONENBERG My father has been extremely supportive of my music. I would classify him as my hero. If it was not ... J. LOREN WINCE When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That's something my father told... NATE ROBINSON It is my biggest dream in life to visit his tomb. I was happy to hear he died so he can go and visit... HENRY ADAMCZYK My father would leave home for seven or eight months of the year trying to pursue his hockey career.... BERNICE CARNEGIE ...My father muttered something to me, and I responded with a mumbled "What". He shouted, "You heard... STEVE MARTIN Walter Grossman was a very handsome and interesting man, and in those years a vital and strong influ... LEONARD ROSE I had a very difficult and complex relationship with my father, ... It was only when I was 15 years ... RAMON MAGSAYSAY I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ... B. B. KING My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not. INDIRA GANDHI He has always been Coach Ingram to me. He was my high school coach. I've known him 30-plus years. He... DARRYL BURROWS
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HUNTINGTON And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the g... SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we... SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of imm... SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has i... SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the... SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitmen... SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis ... SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot. TARAJI P. HENSON I feel like we all have our skeletons. TARAJI P. HENSON I just like when I work with people that are professional and good. TARAJI P. HENSON With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you,... TARAJI P. HENSON I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or b... TARAJI P. HENSON I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz stor... TARAJI P. HENSON When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to... TARAJI P. HENSON Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes w... TARAJI P. HENSON I'm nothing without God. TARAJI P. HENSON Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink. TARAJI P. HENSON I don't ever want to feel complacent. TARAJI P. HENSON I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by you... TARAJI P. HENSON I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy. TARAJI P. HENSON When I meet a person and that chemistry is there, I cannot hide the electricity. I need to learn mor... TARAJI P. HENSON I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no ... TARAJI P. HENSON I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You do... TARAJI P. HENSON I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy. TARAJI P. HENSON I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go. TARAJI P. HENSON It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies i... TARAJI P. HENSON