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My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my ... BENAZIR BHUTTO My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.
DOROTHY MALONE
My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to... LIBBA BRAY My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister.
HENRIK PONTOPPIDAN
My mother had aspirations to become a concert singer. Her Methodist Minister father didn't appro... JOHN COLTRANE My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
ANNA LEE I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who loo...
DANNY AIELLO My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
ANNA LEE My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what am...
JAMES GREEN SOMERVILLE
When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church i... FIDEL CASTRO I was 25 when I first started playing for Gloucestershire, because my father had insisted I got a pr...
DAVID SHEPHERD
I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companie... MARTHA STEWART My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making wha...
ALAN C. GREENBERG (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON
My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.' GEORGE MCGOVERN My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six y...
DARA KHOSROWSHAHI
I grew up with Bible stories, which are like fairy tales, because my father was a minister. We heard... AMY TAN Only way the so called expert could make up for his lack of knowledge was growing a French cut beard...
DR HITESH C SHETH My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ...
JULIAN FELLOWES What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.
DON WILLIAMS, JR. What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.
DON WILLIAMS JR.
Thanks to my mother, people tell me I look younger than I am, especially without make-up. And I supp... DITA VON TEESE
When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time. DIANE LANE For lack of knowledge of the Holy One, we perish in sin of hell.
LAILAH GIFTY, AKITA I had a very difficult and complex relationship with my father, ... It was only when I was 15 years ...
RAMON MAGSAYSAY
I had a Jewish grandfather. We managed to hide this fact from the authorities by falsifying document... HELMUT SCHMIDT
My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain... WOLE SOYINKA Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had ...
SAFFRON ALDRIDGE I was a goodie-good kid; my parents both worked for the First Methodist Church in Lubbock. My father...
BOB LIVINGSTON
I am Wrath. I had neither father nor mother: I leaped out of a lion's mouth when I was scarce half a... CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of ... JOHN CORNFORTH
I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend. CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON When I was growing up, my father would not allow me to get a perm, so I straightened my hair for spe...
ANGELA ROBINSON
My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he we... TORI AMOS I am not a wishing well with legs.
(Paraphrasing Babylon 5's Londo Mollari, repeately, when as...
ADRIáN LAMO If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have ...
BIBLE 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
I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of ... AMY TAN
I think some men are born with big egos, to make up for the lack of certain neessary equipment. Like... RACHEL VINCENT
My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't. AARON PAUL I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the f...
CATHERINE HELEN SPENCE
My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respecte... JANE PAULEY
What I lack in brilliance, I more than make up for in glitter JOSH STERN
My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they h... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
BILL GRIFFITH My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuc...
AUDREY MEADOWS
When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my moth... MR. T
My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my f... KATE DICAMILLO
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... RUPERT MURDOCH My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
DOLORES HUERTA
My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father ca... JHUMPA LAHIRI Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make. The nice...
LETA GANDOLFINI Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make, ... The ...
JAMES GANDOLFINI
Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that... JOHN WAYNE
A minister was talking to similar group of young children. "Who can tell
me what we must do before w... UNKNOWN If it was up to the youth, I would be the Prime Minister of Israel.
BOAZ WACHTEL 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 I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brot...
ANTHONY BROWNE
I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afrai... MAVIS GALLANT Craig finished so close in the 200 free. He had all the splits up until the last 25. It was an outst...
DAVE MASTRANTUONO I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had ...
IRA LEVIN We are here to help each other to try to find a solution for our country, because our Prime Minister...
CHAMLONG SRIMUANG
I was the seventh child in a family of eight siblings. We lost our father very young, and my mother ... SHIV NADAR
Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon. EDDIE IZZARD
Growing up in Ireland, when my family received important news, good or bad, we would boil water and ... ROMA DOWNEY My mother sat a vigil for the Rosenbergs; my oxymoronic father was a Jewish racist. I had uncles who...
ARTHUR SHAPIRO
I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so ... COLIN HAY
I grew up here in New York City and New Jersey, performing on Broadway shows, surrounded by some of ... NICK JONAS
I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father fi... FRANK GIFFORD I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my d...
PIERRE LOTI
It's better to make the wrong choice," my father had continued, "than to make no choice at all. BERNARD CORNWELL
I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much... BRIAN ANDREAS Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology s...
WYCLEF JEAN
I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honoura... WILFRID LAURIER My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with...
WYCLEF JEAN I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE
When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up w... MARKUS ZUSAK
When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of ... BONNIE BEDELIA
I must have been seriously frustrated by my lack of sword-fighting skills to make all this up. My dr... SUSAN EE Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my care...
LARENZ TATE I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.
SUSAN SARANDON
I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people.... MIRA SORVINO When my father passed away, he had his organs donated. In that painful moment, I was deeply comforte...
JOHN PEREZ
My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parent... BEVERLY SILLS
I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been ... VINCE CABLE
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, ... ROBERTO BENIGNI My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a lau...
GARRY MARSHALL
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister a...
ANEURIN BARNARD
Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father h... CLIVE ANDERSON
I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the neare... IRENE ROSENFELD Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brot...
RANI MUKERJI My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age o...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime.
VONDA SHEPARD As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father ...
EUGENE JARECKI I was born in 1976. I grew up in a traditional Mexican family. As a child, I had a pretty normal lif...
EMILIANO SALINAS
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a ... JOHN LE CARRE
'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There'... ATHOL FUGARD I was defence minister for a few years,
KIM BEAZLEY
