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The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was g...
ADEPERO ODUYE![]()
My father believed in astrology. His astrologer had predicted that his daughter would become a write...
TWINKLE KHANNA I believe very deeply in my soul that God paired me and my father purposely and that he knew that my...
MAYSOON ZAYID It may be in the interest of others to be your masters, but why should it be in your interest to be ...
DAMODAR JADHAV![]()
Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON![]()
I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled...
CHIEF JOSEPH![]()
My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor si...
CORY BOOKER I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about ...
SOPHIE B. HAWKINS![]()
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD I had a very difficult and complex relationship with my father, ... It was only when I was 15 years ...
RAMON MAGSAYSAY![]()
In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions som...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT![]()
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER![]()
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![]()
My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he h...
STEPHEN KING 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![]()
When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coa...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say...
ALEXI GIANNOULIAS![]()
No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.
CARLOS SLIM![]()
My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a ve...
SAM SHEPARD![]()
Since my mother passed away, my father and I forged a bond that is so tighter than one could possibl...
JENNA MORASCA When I was a teenager, my stern and meticulous father, whom I regarded as well-spirited of his disce...
JECON B. NADELA Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often ...
ALEXANDER DOWNER I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.
DANTE HALL I just want to know what happened that day that my father passed away. I want to know the reason why...
JOSE RIVERA He was there for everyone, and he would help till the ends of the earth. I would never change a thin...
FANNY HARVEY![]()
My father was truly a great man. I remember one day putting my feet in my father's shoes. I was ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN He wasn't going to look at the Ivy League. I told him he didn't want me to tell his children that he...
BETH PUCHTEL![]()
He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa...
JUNE CARTER CASH There were things i never said to my dad, i always regret never saying.I never told my father that i...
GARY F EVANS... A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE 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 mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicag...
WESLEY CLARK![]()
My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade schoo...
NANCY PELOSI![]()
This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoy...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he ...
IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY![]()
When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." M...
KIRAN DESAI![]()
Since I carry my father's name, I believe it is my responsibility to use that name as he would h...
JERRY FALWELL, JR.![]()
I had a Jewish grandfather. We managed to hide this fact from the authorities by falsifying document...
HELMUT SCHMIDT![]()
My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed ...
CARRIE FISHER![]()
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep...
ROBERT WINSTON I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish mo...
MADELEINE THIEN![]()
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 have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING Everything in my life boils down to my mother. A tradition, which a lot of people do not know of, is...
SONU NIGAM![]()
This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. H...
MELINA MARCHETTA I had never before considered leaving my religion, my family, my customs, and my beliefs behind. It ...
CAROLYN JESSOP My father passed away, and that was hard. But we were about to have to move out of our apartment and...
JASON LINDSEY My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson...
KARA SWISHER I don't know if [Davis] knows this, but my father passed away last summer. He became a father figure...
ROBERT VADEN My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There ...
LATA MANGESHKAR He will be with the city where he donated organs to help others, and his spirit will be alive foreve...
CHEN WEI![]()
My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's ...
ICE T I made a $50 bet -- a lot of money then -- with my coach that I'd win a medal. I woke up that mornin...
DEBBIE ARMSTRONG I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing h...
DAN HILL My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dre...
RAM KAPOOR After the awards, I didn't win, my father called me up and told me that the man from Johnstown had p...
JAMES STEWART In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest...
PAUL MELLON![]()
I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him ...
PATTI DAVIS![]()
My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in fir...
JACKIE EVANCHO I always knew that I would give back. My mother and my father both believe you have to work hard and...
THOMAS KEAN, JR. Music has had a profound effect on me all my life. I wanted to be able to give that to others, belie...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY![]()
When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an h...
JO NESBO![]()
James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the fa...
AL SHARPTON![]()
My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be fu...
CAROL LEIFER As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living...
AL YANKOVIC![]()
Everyone loved my father. He was so nice that people took advantage of him. We were lower middle cla...
JERRY REINSDORF When I first got to WWE, the head of talent relations was John Laurinaitis, who is now my father-in-...
DANIEL BRYAN I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity ...
LARRY WILCOX![]()
My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treat...
SIDNEY POITIER![]()
When he mentioned family, I could only think of my father, my real father, the Long Island janitor w...
GARY SHTEYNGART![]()
My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful t...
KEVIN SMITH![]()
We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war,...
STEPHEN HAWKING![]()
Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different....
CAROL LEIFER![]()
I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college pro...
MEG CABOT I'm sure he knows this, but my father passed away this summer and (Davis is) like a father figure to...
ROBERT VADEN![]()
When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if h...
JODI PICOULT 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa...
JAMES C. DOBSON ... I realized that my father had learned something in his recovery that I still hadn't totally gras...
RENEE CARLINO![]()
To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could...
ANGELINA JOLIE A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA![]()
When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at ...
IAN ANDERSON First, I wanted to be Chris Farley. When I was growing up, Chris Farley was still on the stages and ...
JAKE JOHNSON![]()
My father was the 87th Latino to be in the major leagues, but he was the first one ... to be able to...
ROBERTO CLEMENTE![]()
'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There'...
ATHOL FUGARD![]()
My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never...
BRAD PITT![]()
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![]()
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that ...
DAWN FRENCH 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![]()
I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold u...
GEORGE MACDONALD He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such ...
RONAN FARROW![]()
I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not ...
MIKE MYERS Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Communit...
PETER FONDA As I sit here in my favorite chair, I'm reminded of a story that my father shared with me when I was...
BOBBY F. KIMBROUGH JR. When all else fails, I am comforted by the fact that when I am ill or old, I will never be on my own...
JONATHAN FRANKLIN I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree t...
FELICITY KENDAL I am proud to be your father
SOTONYE ANGA There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I deci...
MARK VONNEGUT My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because...
BRUCE FORSYTH At that moment when John Lennon settled his voice on the back of a dove and released it to the world...
JANET TURPIN MYERS
ADEPERO ODUYE
My father believed in astrology. His astrologer had predicted that his daughter would become a write... TWINKLE KHANNA I believe very deeply in my soul that God paired me and my father purposely and that he knew that my...
MAYSOON ZAYID It may be in the interest of others to be your masters, but why should it be in your interest to be ...
DAMODAR JADHAV
Ah, much deluded! lay asideThy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON
I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled... CHIEF JOSEPH
My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor si... CORY BOOKER I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about ...
SOPHIE B. HAWKINS
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD I had a very difficult and complex relationship with my father, ... It was only when I was 15 years ...
RAMON MAGSAYSAY
In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions som... RUFUS WAINWRIGHT
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER
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
My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he h... STEPHEN KING 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
When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coa... FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say...
ALEXI GIANNOULIAS
No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young. CARLOS SLIM
My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a ve... SAM SHEPARD
Since my mother passed away, my father and I forged a bond that is so tighter than one could possibl... JENNA MORASCA When I was a teenager, my stern and meticulous father, whom I regarded as well-spirited of his disce...
JECON B. NADELA Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often ...
ALEXANDER DOWNER I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.
DANTE HALL I just want to know what happened that day that my father passed away. I want to know the reason why...
JOSE RIVERA He was there for everyone, and he would help till the ends of the earth. I would never change a thin...
FANNY HARVEY
My father was truly a great man. I remember one day putting my feet in my father's shoes. I was ... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN He wasn't going to look at the Ivy League. I told him he didn't want me to tell his children that he...
BETH PUCHTEL
He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa... JUNE CARTER CASH There were things i never said to my dad, i always regret never saying.I never told my father that i...
GARY F EVANS... A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE 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 mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicag...
WESLEY CLARK
My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade schoo... NANCY PELOSI
This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoy... LYNDON B. JOHNSON My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he ...
IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY
When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." M... KIRAN DESAI
Since I carry my father's name, I believe it is my responsibility to use that name as he would h... JERRY FALWELL, JR.
I had a Jewish grandfather. We managed to hide this fact from the authorities by falsifying document... HELMUT SCHMIDT
My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed ... CARRIE FISHER
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... ROBERT WINSTON I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish mo...
MADELEINE THIEN
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 have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ... B. B. KING Everything in my life boils down to my mother. A tradition, which a lot of people do not know of, is...
SONU NIGAM
This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. H... MELINA MARCHETTA I had never before considered leaving my religion, my family, my customs, and my beliefs behind. It ...
CAROLYN JESSOP My father passed away, and that was hard. But we were about to have to move out of our apartment and...
JASON LINDSEY My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson...
KARA SWISHER I don't know if [Davis] knows this, but my father passed away last summer. He became a father figure...
ROBERT VADEN My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There ...
LATA MANGESHKAR He will be with the city where he donated organs to help others, and his spirit will be alive foreve...
CHEN WEI
My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's ... ICE T I made a $50 bet -- a lot of money then -- with my coach that I'd win a medal. I woke up that mornin...
DEBBIE ARMSTRONG I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing h...
DAN HILL My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dre...
RAM KAPOOR After the awards, I didn't win, my father called me up and told me that the man from Johnstown had p...
JAMES STEWART In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest...
PAUL MELLON
I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him ... PATTI DAVIS
My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in fir... JACKIE EVANCHO I always knew that I would give back. My mother and my father both believe you have to work hard and...
THOMAS KEAN, JR. Music has had a profound effect on me all my life. I wanted to be able to give that to others, belie...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY
When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an h... JO NESBO
James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the fa... AL SHARPTON
My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be fu... CAROL LEIFER As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living...
AL YANKOVIC
Everyone loved my father. He was so nice that people took advantage of him. We were lower middle cla... JERRY REINSDORF When I first got to WWE, the head of talent relations was John Laurinaitis, who is now my father-in-...
DANIEL BRYAN I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity ...
LARRY WILCOX
My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treat... SIDNEY POITIER
When he mentioned family, I could only think of my father, my real father, the Long Island janitor w... GARY SHTEYNGART
My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful t... KEVIN SMITH
We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war,... STEPHEN HAWKING
Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different.... CAROL LEIFER
I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college pro... MEG CABOT I'm sure he knows this, but my father passed away this summer and (Davis is) like a father figure to...
ROBERT VADEN
When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if h... JODI PICOULT 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa...
JAMES C. DOBSON ... I realized that my father had learned something in his recovery that I still hadn't totally gras...
RENEE CARLINO
To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could... ANGELINA JOLIE A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA
When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at ... IAN ANDERSON First, I wanted to be Chris Farley. When I was growing up, Chris Farley was still on the stages and ...
JAKE JOHNSON
My father was the 87th Latino to be in the major leagues, but he was the first one ... to be able to... ROBERTO CLEMENTE
'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There'... ATHOL FUGARD
My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never... BRAD PITT
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
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that ... DAWN FRENCH 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
I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold u... GEORGE MACDONALD He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such ...
RONAN FARROW
I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not ... MIKE MYERS Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Communit...
PETER FONDA As I sit here in my favorite chair, I'm reminded of a story that my father shared with me when I was...
BOBBY F. KIMBROUGH JR. When all else fails, I am comforted by the fact that when I am ill or old, I will never be on my own...
JONATHAN FRANKLIN I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree t...
FELICITY KENDAL I am proud to be your father
SOTONYE ANGA There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I deci...
MARK VONNEGUT My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because...
BRUCE FORSYTH At that moment when John Lennon settled his voice on the back of a dove and released it to the world...
JANET TURPIN MYERS
Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth. 
I didn't appreciate Brooklyn until I left it. 
My parents, fleeing a repressive regime in the Dominican Republic, were embraced by this country and... 
I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documen... 
You can learn steps, but you cannot learn how to boogie. 
When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we... 
My family background is Mexican, and I was born in Chicago. It's pretty much family tradition ev... 