Sidney Poitier
Related JO NESBO When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it. EUZHAN PALCY DON RICKLES Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my... DORIS EATON TRAVIS ORLANDO BLOOM SIDNEY POITIER I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father. RICHARD LLEWELLYN SALMAN RUSHDIE As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. M... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL LEMON ANDERSEN I knew Sinatra for 38 years. He was like my father. Frank Sinatra was my 'dad.' He treated m... TRINI LOPEZ My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed t... DUANE CHAPMAN FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would t... MAHESH BABU RUDY GIULIANI My father became a mythical figure, more force than man. . .he was a force my mother would use as a ... DAGOBERTO GILB LYNN JOHNSTON DONALD TRUMP TWINKLE KHANNA JUNE CARTER CASH Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my care... LARENZ TATE I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was ... TONY SHALHOUB SIMON VAN DER MEER JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN He was there for everyone, and he would help till the ends of the earth. I would never change a thin... FANNY HARVEY MATT GROENING My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, '... MONTE IRVIN ANNE HECHE My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings. FLANN O'BRIEN APOLO OHNO 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 BONO KIRAN DESAI When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ... FRANK GEHRY TWINKLE KHANNA I have my granddad's record collection, which I treasure, and my father's - Rolling Stones t... ALAINA HUFFMAN I was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people. TOM SIZEMORE WARREN BEATTY My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he ... MARK BILLINGHAM JOHNNY CASH RUPERT MURDOCH EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI SUGAR RAY LEONARD MALCOLM X CHIEF JOSEPH As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved th... GEORGE STEINBRENNER I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing h... DAN HILL I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My fathe... LAINIE KAZAN LYNN JOHNSTON DARLENE LOVE CHRISTY TURLINGTON I was 12 years old when I said goodbye to my family and relatives. I never saw my parents again. I l... ANNE FOX GRACE JONES GLORIA ESTEFAN KATE DICAMILLO DONALD TRUMP MICHELLE OBAMA AL SHARPTON [On fellow Oscar winner Sidney Poitier:] 'I saw you once and I looked into your eyes and there was a... JAMIE FOXX My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North C... KARY MULLIS JOHNNY CASH I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother woul... RICK JAMES JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw th... VING RHAMES JOE BIDEN I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer. BILL GRIFFITH GREGG ALLMAN PATTI DAVIS YVETTE CLARKE FRANCIS CAPRA BRAD PAISLEY LUPE FIASCO BOB FELLER But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us ... PATRICIA RICHARDSON 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 BENJAMIN WATSON My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My ... JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE NATASHA TRETHEWEY SACHIN TENDULKAR I would have been willing to do anything for my father. I would have moved in with my father to look... BRUCE PALTROW If you're not getting work, make your own work. I think that's a good mentality. I suppose I... SOPHIE KENNEDY CLARK I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about ... SOPHIE B. HAWKINS ANGELINA JOLIE My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my f... GREG ILES CHARLES KURALT 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 JODI PICOULT My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well... RICHIE HAVENS DREXEL DEAL LAILA ALI If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle clas... DAVE VAN RONK DREW BARRYMORE My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was ... DANNY AIELLO B. B. KING I used to steal my father's cologne, and it was so strong. My mother would always know when I di... TREY SONGZ SIDNEY POITIER SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR JENNIE GARTH Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Communit... PETER FONDA KING GEORGE V
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When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an h... 
My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for th... 
I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing t... 
I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life... 
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I... 
I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how k... 
When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coa... 
I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to liv... 
That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kind... 
My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My fat... 
I'm a different person who's not my father or my mother. I want to be treated differently fr... 
He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa... 
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family. 
My father was truly a great man. I remember one day putting my feet in my father's shoes. I was ... 
I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I h... 
He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my fa... 
My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life.... 
I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. ... 
When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." M... 
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is some... 
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... 
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... 
I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a gre... 
I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke... 
My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his ... 
I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled... 
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I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My fa... 
My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really... 
My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pi... 
My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my f... 
While I believed deeply in my husband's vision for this country... and I was certain he would ma... 
James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the fa... 
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... 
There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always lis... 
My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked ... 
My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, h... 
Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheime... 
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Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the b... 
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I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteac... 
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Before I was born my father disowned me. You know those ones who get the females pregnant, and then ... 
I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don'... 
I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option. 
I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ... 
I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. 
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When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seei... 
My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to ... 
I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described a... 
Either I will find a way, or I will make one. 
It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts. 
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. 
The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness wil... 
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Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love. 
To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies. 
I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind. 
Liars need to have good memories. 
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One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. 
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. 
Into the woods, my Master went,
Clean forspent, forspent,
Into the woods my Master came,
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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger. 
I love the freedom that the narrative form provides. 
Individual honors and scoring championships are great, but my No. 1 goal is to win the Stanley Cup. 
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Liars ought to have good memories 
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The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, ...