My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life.
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Related My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life.... APOLO OHNO teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li... MY TEACHER 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 have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the be... INARA GEORGE My life is a struggle. VOLTAIRE My parents are both English. My dad is a plastic surgeon - his name's Norman Waterhouse, but we ... SUKI WATERHOUSE My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life. ELVIS STOJKO Mom and Dad are truly my heroes. And I have to say, so is my little brother Robert. He's 11, and... BINDI IRWIN Maluma comes from my mom, my dad and my sister's names. The first letters of my mom's name a... MALUMA My father... very generous, very philanthropic, very charitable man. My siblings and I and my mother... STEVE TISCH My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor; my mom, she has such great faith. ALLYSON FELIX For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA To have the knowledge that would make my father proud is a gift that has not been handed to me on a ... GARY F EVANS... My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superi... LONI ANDERSON I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would t... MAHESH BABU My mom was a singer in Chicago and still is a cabaret singer, and she was very theatrical. And my da... HAYES MACARTHUR My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin. PAGE MCCONNELL I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father. GREG NORMAN We're just a big media family. My mom is always sending us articles throughout the day. My husba... ALLISON WILLIAMS My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant ... LAURA BELL BUNDY My guess is that my mom and dad are very actively involved in the affairs of the next life, and they... MITT ROMNEY My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day. VICTOR CRUZ I'm lucky to have my dad in my life. He's very brilliant, I think he's really a smart ma... CODY HORN Walter Grossman was a very handsome and interesting man, and in those years a vital and strong influ... LEONARD ROSE 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 who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of m... STEPHEN GREENBLATT My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Ji... JANE PAULEY My younger brother, David, plays hockey for Plum and my mom takes him from game-to-game when me and ... JONATHAN SMITH Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always... ART ALEXAKIS abundant feeling of your presence in front of Allah is enjoy full solitude state where you are in bo... M.I.SHAIKH MY SELF It's raining spiders, seriously. Maybe that's a bad sign. MY MORNING JACKET At Dawn/Tennessee Fire Demos MY MORNING JACKET You go up there and it's just this amazing place on top of a mountain, MY MORNING JACKET My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately aft... DANE COOK I'm from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. M... CASSIE VENTURA I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled... CHIEF JOSEPH My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mothe... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man... ZOSIA MAMET I have my name Cory on my left arm, and I have my mom's name on my right with a cross. She passe... CORY HARDRICT think about it: Romeo and Juliet bucked the system, and look where it got them. Superman has the hot... JODI PICOULT My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great exam... CAT CORA My dad was a good man, he had standards, principles, and a code of honor.I always wanted to say the ... GARY F EVANS... Green has always been my mom's favorite color. My father, aunt and I have gotten her jade, emera... ERIKA CHRISTENSEN My father's a firefighter. He was my whole life. And my brother-in-law and several family member... BRAD PAISLEY My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very un... RACHEL PLATTEN My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an i... HARRY CONNICK, JR. I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she conv... VIJAY My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My... CHUCK D I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father GREG NORMAN My dad is a very strong figure in my life and certainly in death he's become even more meaningful. S... RICK SPRINGFIELD My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the b... SIDNEY POITIER I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser. NIKKI SIXX I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious th... LENA DUNHAM My parents met in the theatre, and I thought that was so romantic. My dad was a scenic designer and ... SKYE MCCOLE BARTUSIAK My dad was a copywriter on Madison Avenue at the same time as the TV show 'Mad Men' is set. ... PETER HELLER My life is a series of things that just happen. HAROLD RUSSELL My life is a mosaic, and there's no room in between pieces at all. MARCIA CLARK Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and e... EMILY OSTER But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24. RACHAEL LEIGH COOK I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that ... KASKADE Music is my life. ROBERT ILER My father left... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I said, 'You kno... J. R. MARTINEZ My parents had a difficult divorce. My dad had to take a backseat for a few years, and my grandfathe... CHRISTIAN CAMARGO My first real acting gig was probably playing Mamillius in my mother's 'Winter's Tale.... LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my d... CHAD CHANNING I love being around my mom and my dad. MADDIE HASSON My dad is Mexican, and he grew up as a normal chauvinistic Mexican, and he expected my mom to do eve... XOCHI BIRCH My mom grew up in Idaho, went to Brigham Young University: they're very Molly Mormon. And my fat... ELIZA DUSHKU My mom and dad are second-generation Greek-Americans who instilled in our middle-class family the va... JAMES COSTOS My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and th... TIM HEIDECKER My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes. MICHAEL JORDAN I'll tell ya this: I come from an educated family. My father was an attorney representing blue c... JOE PISCOPO My father has acted in over 700 films. My mother acted in one film, 'Kismat with Mithun Chakrabo... SHRADDHA KAPOOR My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ... FRED ARMISEN My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father. DOLORES HUERTA I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan. TED CRUZ The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents... LADY GAGA My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My da... ASHTON KUTCHER My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother's brother, a former monk fro... WLADYSLAW REYMONT My dad's my best mate, and he always will be. CHER LLOYD My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes o... PATRICIA POLACCO My off-the-field heroes, the people who gave me the values to live by and who inspired me with their... ALLAN RAY Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks i... STEVE BUSCEMI My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid ... MARCO RUBIO My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't... WALTER DEAN MYERS My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she... SAM ROCKWELL My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey. ADAM LAMBERT I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a reti... SAMANTHA SHANNON I'm the most Failure Model of My parents activities SATHESH KUMAR M My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad... DAN GABLE I knew Sinatra for 38 years. He was like my father. Frank Sinatra was my 'dad.' He treated m... TRINI LOPEZ Being with my families helped me a lot. You know, my sister, my mom and my dad had been really great... HILARY STANTON ZUNIN As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life. DAVID CASSIDY My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet. DAN GABLE The fact that one of these ladies was my mom made me particularly sad because my mom is beautiful. A... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big i... DARREN ARONOFSKY My parents are a big help, and they're always making sure I have a normal life and my life isn... CAYDEN BOYD My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but ... ATO ESSANDOH Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I... ALEKSA PALLADINO My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't r... LORDE
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