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My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of t...
TERI GARR![]()
My father was - actually was an Episcopal priest as a young man. Became a psychotherapist, a psychol...
JOSHUA BELL![]()
My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd pa...
EDMUND WHITE![]()
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe...
JOHNNY CASH![]()
Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and ...
LARRY ELDER![]()
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe...
JOHNNY CASH "Who hates his neighbor has not the rights of a child." And not only has he no rights as a child, he...
SØREN KIERKEGAARD![]()
My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an acto...
SHERRI SHEPHERD I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brothe...
KIKI DEE I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, ...
ANEURIN BARNARD![]()
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ...
RUPERT MURDOCH I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.
RICHARD LLEWELLYN![]()
My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing i...
KEKE PALMER My father became a mythical figure, more force than man. . .he was a force my mother would use as a ...
DAGOBERTO GILB I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was ...
TONY SHALHOUB![]()
I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His ow...
SACHIN TENDULKAR![]()
Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'
ROBERT KENNEDY When I was a teenager, my stern and meticulous father, whom I regarded as well-spirited of his disce...
JECON B. NADELA I loved 'Gladiator' when I was young. Russell Crowe was a big inspiration; the fact that he ...
DOUGLAS BOOTH I idolize my father. I mean, he has worked so hard in his life.
CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY![]()
We lived above my father's launderette. Both my parents ran the launderette, but my father was a...
SANJEEV BHASKAR![]()
My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule...
THURGOOD MARSHALL![]()
Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the b...
LUPE FIASCO So my character on 'Tyrant' is a chap called Barry Al Fayeed, and he is the second son of a ...
ADAM RAYNER![]()
My character Esteban is a guy who really didn't think he was gonna be there at this point in his...
ESAI MORALES![]()
My mom grew up in Idaho, went to Brigham Young University: they're very Molly Mormon. And my fat...
ELIZA DUSHKU I was at my father's office, and I'd be in the back of his office, building Lego skyscrapers...
ERIC TRUMP My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant ...
LAURA BELL BUNDY My father ran a CB radio business. I grew up in a cluttered space that was filled with radios and an...
RASHID JOHNSON![]()
'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There'...
ATHOL FUGARD I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in...
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew ...
LAURA MOSER I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL![]()
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 got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos ...
ACTION BRONSON I grew up in the city. Both my mother and father were factory workers, and I loved the life in the &...
PER PETTERSON My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age o...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH![]()
My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.
PAUL LYNDE![]()
My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea...
WALTER MOSLEY![]()
I will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful lead...
JIGME KHESAR NAMGYEL WANGCHUCK I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Arg...
J. D. PARDO My father's like - it's as if he was transparent. He's a man of great mystery, whereas a...
JAMIE WYETH My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a lau...
GARRY MARSHALL![]()
There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always lis...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN![]()
My father was truly a great man. I remember one day putting my feet in my father's shoes. I was ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in S...
TAIYE SELASI![]()
I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played...
CAM NEWTON![]()
I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to liv...
RUDY GIULIANI![]()
I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating...
GEORGE CLOONEY 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![]()
My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.
BRUCE CAMPBELL My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
MANOJ BHARGAVA![]()
My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured...
MARK HELPRIN![]()
My father smoked cigars his whole life, and my husband once in a while does. And when he does, it re...
ANGELA AHRENDTS![]()
My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the b...
SIDNEY POITIER![]()
I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a gre...
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI![]()
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a ...
JOHN LE CARRE![]()
If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed.
MARK WAHLBERG My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he ...
P. J. HARVEY 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 was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mo...
SPIKE MILLIGAN![]()
I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My fa...
CHRISTY TURLINGTON My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business ...
CARMEN BUSQUETS I grew up in East Germany, and we were short on technology. So my father was really proud to be the ...
APPARAT His main contribution is he touched the lives of so many young men and a few women as a father figur...
CHRIS FERGUSON![]()
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and...
CAROLINE KENNEDY Because of this, my son is left without a father. If he felt his life was in danger, he has no busin...
LUZ MARTINEZ As a kid, I grew up middle class, but my father was a great innovator with an entrepreneurial spirit...
BETSY DEVOS![]()
My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty offic...
HILLARY CLINTON![]()
My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treat...
SIDNEY POITIER![]()
I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD![]()
The CIA created, armed and financed the Contras. My father backed them with everything he had. It wa...
PATTI DAVIS Sammy Sosa grew up without a father in the back of a converted public hospital in San Pedro de Macor...
BILL DEDMAN![]()
I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't...
J. D. SOUTHER![]()
Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and ...
LARRY ELDER When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London...
NICOLE BEHARIE So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple f...
GEORGE J. MITCHELL![]()
My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor si...
CORY BOOKER![]()
My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kans...
PATTY JENKINS I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up ...
WYCLEF JEAN![]()
He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa...
JUNE CARTER CASH My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was ...
DANNY AIELLO![]()
I never considered the clothing business in college. But my father was a manufacturer of men's w...
GEORGE ZIMMER![]()
I grew up in Colombo but was lucky enough to spend a lot of time in the countryside as well. Althoug...
ROMESH GUNESEKERA 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 a miner and he worked down a mine.
KEVIN KEEGAN I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
BILLY SHERWOOD My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
DICHEN LACHMAN 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 wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero...
DAVE BRUBECK![]()
Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid ...
GUSTAV STRESEMANN![]()
As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I ha...
PETE TOWNSHEND![]()
My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up i...
CORNEL WEST I remember seeing my father only twice as a child for brief visits. As I grew up, I invented a fathe...
KATHRYN HARRISON I was a goodie-good kid; my parents both worked for the First Methodist Church in Lubbock. My father...
BOB LIVINGSTON![]()
I had a Jewish grandfather. We managed to hide this fact from the authorities by falsifying document...
HELMUT SCHMIDT![]()
My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ...
PATTI SMITH Disruption is in my genes. My father owned one of the first discount toy stores, Duane's Toyland...
CRAIG HATKOFF![]()
The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing ba...
HENRY ROLLINS I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage ac...
LAURA LINNEY
TERI GARR
My father was - actually was an Episcopal priest as a young man. Became a psychotherapist, a psychol... JOSHUA BELL
My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd pa... EDMUND WHITE
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... JOHNNY CASH
Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and ... LARRY ELDER
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... JOHNNY CASH "Who hates his neighbor has not the rights of a child." And not only has he no rights as a child, he...
SØREN KIERKEGAARD
My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an acto... SHERRI SHEPHERD I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brothe...
KIKI DEE I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, ...
ANEURIN BARNARD
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... RUPERT MURDOCH I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.
RICHARD LLEWELLYN
My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing i... KEKE PALMER My father became a mythical figure, more force than man. . .he was a force my mother would use as a ...
DAGOBERTO GILB I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was ...
TONY SHALHOUB
I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His ow... SACHIN TENDULKAR
Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.' ROBERT KENNEDY When I was a teenager, my stern and meticulous father, whom I regarded as well-spirited of his disce...
JECON B. NADELA I loved 'Gladiator' when I was young. Russell Crowe was a big inspiration; the fact that he ...
DOUGLAS BOOTH I idolize my father. I mean, he has worked so hard in his life.
CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY
We lived above my father's launderette. Both my parents ran the launderette, but my father was a... SANJEEV BHASKAR
My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule... THURGOOD MARSHALL
Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the b... LUPE FIASCO So my character on 'Tyrant' is a chap called Barry Al Fayeed, and he is the second son of a ...
ADAM RAYNER
My character Esteban is a guy who really didn't think he was gonna be there at this point in his... ESAI MORALES
My mom grew up in Idaho, went to Brigham Young University: they're very Molly Mormon. And my fat... ELIZA DUSHKU I was at my father's office, and I'd be in the back of his office, building Lego skyscrapers...
ERIC TRUMP My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant ...
LAURA BELL BUNDY My father ran a CB radio business. I grew up in a cluttered space that was filled with radios and an...
RASHID JOHNSON
'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There'... ATHOL FUGARD I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in...
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew ...
LAURA MOSER I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL
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 got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos ... ACTION BRONSON I grew up in the city. Both my mother and father were factory workers, and I loved the life in the &...
PER PETTERSON My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age o...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH
My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business. PAUL LYNDE
My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea... WALTER MOSLEY
I will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful lead... JIGME KHESAR NAMGYEL WANGCHUCK I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Arg...
J. D. PARDO My father's like - it's as if he was transparent. He's a man of great mystery, whereas a...
JAMIE WYETH My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a lau...
GARRY MARSHALL
There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always lis... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN
My father was truly a great man. I remember one day putting my feet in my father's shoes. I was ... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in S...
TAIYE SELASI
I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played... CAM NEWTON
I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to liv... RUDY GIULIANI
I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating... GEORGE CLOONEY 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
My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter. BRUCE CAMPBELL My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
MANOJ BHARGAVA
My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured... MARK HELPRIN
My father smoked cigars his whole life, and my husband once in a while does. And when he does, it re... ANGELA AHRENDTS
My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the b... SIDNEY POITIER
I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a gre... EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a ... JOHN LE CARRE
If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed. MARK WAHLBERG My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he ...
P. J. HARVEY 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 was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mo... SPIKE MILLIGAN
I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My fa... CHRISTY TURLINGTON My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business ...
CARMEN BUSQUETS I grew up in East Germany, and we were short on technology. So my father was really proud to be the ...
APPARAT His main contribution is he touched the lives of so many young men and a few women as a father figur...
CHRIS FERGUSON
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and... CAROLINE KENNEDY Because of this, my son is left without a father. If he felt his life was in danger, he has no busin...
LUZ MARTINEZ As a kid, I grew up middle class, but my father was a great innovator with an entrepreneurial spirit...
BETSY DEVOS
My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty offic... HILLARY CLINTON
My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treat... SIDNEY POITIER
I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke... SUGAR RAY LEONARD
The CIA created, armed and financed the Contras. My father backed them with everything he had. It wa... PATTI DAVIS Sammy Sosa grew up without a father in the back of a converted public hospital in San Pedro de Macor...
BILL DEDMAN
I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't... J. D. SOUTHER
Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and ... LARRY ELDER When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London...
NICOLE BEHARIE So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple f...
GEORGE J. MITCHELL
My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor si... CORY BOOKER
My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kans... PATTY JENKINS I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up ...
WYCLEF JEAN
He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa... JUNE CARTER CASH My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was ...
DANNY AIELLO
I never considered the clothing business in college. But my father was a manufacturer of men's w... GEORGE ZIMMER
I grew up in Colombo but was lucky enough to spend a lot of time in the countryside as well. Althoug... ROMESH GUNESEKERA 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 a miner and he worked down a mine.
KEVIN KEEGAN I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
BILLY SHERWOOD My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
DICHEN LACHMAN 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 wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero...
DAVE BRUBECK
Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid ... GUSTAV STRESEMANN
As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I ha... PETE TOWNSHEND
My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up i... CORNEL WEST I remember seeing my father only twice as a child for brief visits. As I grew up, I invented a fathe...
KATHRYN HARRISON I was a goodie-good kid; my parents both worked for the First Methodist Church in Lubbock. My father...
BOB LIVINGSTON
I had a Jewish grandfather. We managed to hide this fact from the authorities by falsifying document... HELMUT SCHMIDT
My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ... PATTI SMITH Disruption is in my genes. My father owned one of the first discount toy stores, Duane's Toyland...
CRAIG HATKOFF
The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing ba... HENRY ROLLINS I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage ac...
LAURA LINNEY
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