I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father. Votes: 3
Kareem Abdul-JabbarI'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall. Votes: 3
Keegan-Michael KeyMy mother is very good in Scrabble. In Boggle, my father is probably better. Votes: 3
Chelsea ClintonI certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father. Votes: 3
Jack NicholsonMy mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer. Votes: 3
Liza MinnelliMost of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe. Votes: 3
Sigrid UndsetI sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame. Votes: 3
Jeff BuckleyI grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there. Votes: 3
Peter AgreSon, anything can happen to anyone," my father told me, "but it usually doesn't. Votes: 3
Philip RothMy mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education. Votes: 3
Gordon BellOn my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin. Votes: 3
Tamsin GreigI was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister, Votes: 3
Israel Kamakawiwo'oleI was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister. Votes: 3
Israel Kamakawiwo'oleAs the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name Votes: 3
Connie ChungWe're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us. Votes: 3
Mattie StepanekAs the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name. Votes: 3
Connie ChungOddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father. Votes: 3
Jamie WyethThe biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy. Votes: 3
Thomas SteinbeckI tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist. Votes: 3
Ray ConniffMy husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character. Votes: 3
Olivia WilliamsMy mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University. Votes: 3
James CroninMy mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner. Votes: 3
Poppy Z. BriteI attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood. Votes: 3
Leverett SaltonstallUpon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted. Votes: 3
Sam SheppardAn important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937. Votes: 3
Philip Warren AndersonI inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world. Votes: 3
Anthony KiedisHe's the Italian version of my father. I don't know if he's Italian or not. Votes: 3
Shaquille O'NealI am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. Votes: 3
Alexander the GreatI think my father is nearly perfect. I think he's quite handsome, except a bit fat. Votes: 3
Gina RinehartMy father loves his country and is ready to lead it. In my fathers gut: integrity. Votes: 3
Vanessa KerryGrowing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business. Votes: 3
Jared KushnerEven if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game. Votes: 3
Ryan ReynoldsThe most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom. Votes: 3
Sean LennonMy dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father. Votes: 3
Dolores HuertaI was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches. Votes: 3
Aaron NevilleIf by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareI couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins. Votes: 3
Park Geun-hyeSkin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma. Votes: 3
Landon DonovanMy parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago. Votes: 3
Paul RuddI feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing. Votes: 3
Dweezil ZappaSkin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma, Votes: 3
Landon DonovanI'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. Votes: 3
Sidney PoitierMy mother is black and my father is Filipino. I got the best of both worlds. Votes: 3
Cassie VenturaWhen I first started racing, my father said, "Win the race as slow as you can. Votes: 3
Richard PettyI was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic. Votes: 3
Diane LaneI expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly. Votes: 3
Lawrence WelkLand where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring! Votes: 3
Samuel Francis SmithI had nothing to fear from my father.Except his disappointment.Which was no small thing. Votes: 3
Barbara DelinskyThere's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it. Votes: 3
George R. R. MartinWhen my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book. Votes: 3
Paula DanzigerMy mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. Votes: 3
Jeff BridgesI suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence. Votes: 3
Seamus HeaneySo I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana. Votes: 3
Guillermo Cabrera InfanteI got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father. Votes: 3
Missy ElliottI am really looking forward to driving another of my father's car at the show in Rotterdam. Votes: 3
Nelson PiquetBoth my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke. Votes: 3
Imelda StauntonMen of my father's generation were perpetual hustlers, always on the make and always on the move. Votes: 3
Shawn AmosTo my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession. Votes: 3
William Standish KnowlesI think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people. Votes: 3
Laila AliSo I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana Votes: 3
Guillermo Cabrera InfanteMy lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example. Votes: 3
Ted DansonTell me,â Isabelle said.âWho it was. That my father had the affair with. Votes: 3
Cassandra ClareI think my father had a lot of anti-establishment in him. He came through the '60s. Votes: 3
Willie RobertsonHe's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable. Votes: 3
Carrie FisherI know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred. Votes: 3
V. S. NaipaulAt my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863. Votes: 3
Carl SpittelerMy only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society. Votes: 3
Gerard DepardieuI stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. Votes: 3
Anais NinWhen I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself. Votes: 3
Domhnall GleesonMy mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess. Votes: 3
Mariah CareyI shave every day with an ancient manual razor. It was my father's, and I love it. Votes: 3
Brunello CucinelliDo you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me? Votes: 3
Dionne WarwickI like pretty conservative guys, good guys. I always look for the qualities I find in my father. Votes: 3
Summer GlauI never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy. Votes: 3
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy. Votes: 3
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries. Votes: 3
Harper LeeI like pretty conservative guys, good guys. I always look for the qualities I find in my father." Votes: 3
Summer GlauI never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy." Votes: 3
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work. Votes: 3
Jamie WyethIn 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency. Votes: 3
Alexandra KerryGorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive. Votes: 3
Anthony BrowneI had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companies. Votes: 3
Martha StewartJust like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society. Votes: 3
Barbra StreisandCourage is a commodity I sell in times of peace. But then my father was a chicken farmer. Votes: 3
Jarod KintzI see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England. Votes: 3
William John WillsBy the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone. Votes: 3
Dick CavettIn truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father. Votes: 3
Hope SoloI would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age. Votes: 3
Paul DesmondBut my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome. Votes: 3
Isabella RosselliniI mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory. Votes: 3
Kristin Scott ThomasAfter the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits. Votes: 3
Catherine Helen SpenceI would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please. Votes: 3
Robert MapplethorpeI had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father. Votes: 3
Daniel Day-LewisOne Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that. Votes: 3
Mo RoccaMy father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian. Votes: 3
Zinedine ZidaneThe loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain. Votes: 3
Frank LowyMy mother and my father always had me in ballet and dance, and I sang in a girl's group. Votes: 3
Jessica WhiteWhen my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot. Votes: 3
Alejandro JodorowskyI decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life. Votes: 3
Sidney PoitierI learned a lot from my father. I'm very lucky to have a father who was a professional athlete. Votes: 3
Joakim NoahI used to tell people my father was a plumber, because that would mean we had a normal life. Votes: 3
Nell NewmanTo my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them. Votes: 3
Marita GoldenBecause my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased Votes: 3
John James AudubonI've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age. Votes: 3
William SteigI will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful leader. Votes: 3
Jigme Khesar Namgyel WangchuckI went to football training when I was five because I think my father thought he had two boys. Votes: 3
Jodie WhittakerI grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal. Votes: 3
Lysette AnthonyBecause my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased. Votes: 3
John James AudubonIf you had met my father you would never, not for an instant, have thought he was an assassin. Votes: 3
Magda SzubanskiI have a lot of anger about my childhood - being hard of hearing and my relationship with my father. Votes: 3
Lou FerrignoIt's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer. Votes: 3
Patricia HeatonI couldn't be as charming as my mother or as smart as my father. So I decided to be bad. Votes: 3
Markie PostThe principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was. Votes: 3
John IrvingI have that memory of dancing on my father's feet to all the music my parents used to listen to. Votes: 3
Deborah KassIt never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability. Votes: 3
Lord MountbattenMy mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978. Votes: 3
Roberto BenigniI grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries. Votes: 3
Charley PridePeople tell me I look like my father. I've never seen my dad, so does that mean I look invisible? Votes: 3
Jarod KintzOh, Mr Coward, sir - I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father! Votes: 3
Kenneth MoreWhen my father died, I was living in England. It was very traumatic that he died when I was away. Votes: 3
Sharon CreechI was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living. Votes: 3
Bobby WomackI know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits. Votes: 3
Park Geun-hyeI knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing. Votes: 3
James Earl JonesIt was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be. Votes: 3
Calvin TrillinDo I look like a sex-symbol or a pin-up boy? It's just that my father presented me like a dream. Votes: 3
Hrithik RoshanI have my father to thank for my build and height, and my mother to thank for my lips and eyes. Votes: 3
Jasmine GuinnessAll the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. Votes: 3
George EliotOne of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other. Votes: 3
Camryn ManheimI'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me. Votes: 3
Ngozi Okonjo-IwealaI get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin. Votes: 3
Norma ShearerI told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away. Votes: 3
Paul WolfowitzI look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud. Votes: 3
Helen KellerI grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them. Votes: 3
Dolly PartonI lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much. Votes: 3
Anthony QuinnI grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records. Votes: 3
Billy SherwoodWhat made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener. Votes: 3
Dan DeCarloIm told Im like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me. Votes: 3
Ngozi Okonjo-IwealaI respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man! Votes: 3
Rebecca McKinseyMy father-in-law was a nuclear-submarine captain. My father was in the military. Votes: 1
David GregoryI felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head. Votes: 1
Macaulay CulkinMy father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next Votes: 0
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/search_results.html#AFkh8uD9L4AiZ6mt.99My work is done; I have nothing left to do but to go to my Father.
Selina Hastings, Countess of HuntingdonMy father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.
Mikhail KhodorkovskyMy father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.
Elizabeth McCrackenI never exploited my father's role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps.
Zbigniew BrzezinskiMy father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.
Honeysuckle WeeksMy father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife" She married a house?
Sherrilyn KenyonMy father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.
William Butler YeatsI never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.
Christina SteadTo distract myself from thoughts of my father, i decided to check out the dead body.
Kelley ArmstrongFather, may my song today be a sweet sound in Your ears-even if in Yours alone. Amen.
Aiden Wilson TozerMy father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
Haile GebrselassieI could pull all kinds of games on my mother. I couldn't pull any games on my father.
John Henrik ClarkeIf I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library,
Jorge Luis BorgesI once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'
Marianne FaithfullI love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.
Barbara Brown TaylorMy father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money.
Haile GebrselassieMy father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.
Kieran HebdenMy father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
Sherman AlexieWhat thing, in honor, had my father lost, That need to be revived and breathed in me?
William ShakespeareMy old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.
Abraham LincolnNothing embarrassing, but hopefully I can call myself a gentleman because of my father.
Alex PettyferOnce the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.
Barbara KingsolverIf my father is walking around going, 'Mmm, pussy,' he's thinking about eating the cat.
Greg BehrendtI would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.
L. Ron HubbardFrom my father's side I got the strength, the mental toughness, the heart, the courage.
Mariano RiveraI come from a stupid family. My father worked in a bank. They caught him stealing pens.
Rodney DangerfieldSadly, I can't say the same for my Father, who is probably in a different place - Hell.
Steve CooganI always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.
Tamara MellonOld times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.
Amor TowlesMy father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.
Anne Morrow LindberghMy father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.
George KennedyMy father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.
Richard LeakeyI try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type.
Suzanne CollinsMy father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.
Corrie Ten BoomIn joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.
George MacDonaldMy father told me you have two loves in your life: What you do and the people youre with.
Mario Van PeeblesI got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.
Missy ElliotMy father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ!
Spike MilliganMy father always said that if you want oranges, you have to go to where the oranges grow.
Terrence HowardZounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad.
William ShakespeareI wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.
Bruce SpringsteenMy real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.
Cary ElwesMy father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say.
Charlotte GainsbourgI was very fortunate to have had a mother and father who loved me in spite of my failings.
George W. BushAl Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it.
Jehane NoujaimMy father knows me better than anyone. He can tell me over the phone what I'm doing wrong.
Jorge PosadaYou know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
Katey SagalMy father had no sons, so I became queen. The only thing I had to do was perform the role.
Margrethe II of DenmarkMy mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really.
Rufus WainwrightMy father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep
Thom YorkeThe only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.
Zinedine ZidaneMy father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.
Darrell Issa... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.
Eunice Kennedy ShriverI am really looking forward to driving another of my father?s car at the show in Rotterdam.
Nelson PiquetMy father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.
Nicolas CageMy father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.
Anne LamottMy mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
Beverly ClearySometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.
Brandon SandersonMy father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
Flann O'BrienI was very dawn to people I loved, to my family, to my father, to my sister, to my brothers.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellI agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet.
James Earl JonesI was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.
Jane FondaMy father said I was perfectly suited for Washington because I've always worked around nuts.
Leon PanettaI'd pick - my father would bring home about six newspapers. We had 10 in Boston at the time.
Nat HentoffI should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.
Neko CaseMy father said he did have the mathematics of mind physics, or the physics of consciousness.
Paul LaffoleyMy father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.
Rodney DangerfieldMy mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.
Sergio LeoneI hated farm work. I always got stuck with the jobs my father and brother didn't want to do.
Travis HafnerI remember my father saying that you're about to awaken when you dream that you're dreaming.
Willard HuyckI've always played for the acceptance of my godfather (Willie Mays) and father (Bobby Bonds).
Barry BondsFriend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?
Charles LambMy father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.
Ernest HemingwayMy father was everything to me. Unlike my mother - I didn't have a special affinity with her.
Giovanna CauYou know, my father died of cancer when I was a teenager. He had it before it became popular.
Goodman AceMy father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man.
Indira GandhiMy father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions.It's really cool.
Lewis BlackMy father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.
Michael CeraI've never made an excuse of not knowing my father, because I've had great people in my life.
Naomi CampbellI'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
Reinhold NiebuhrMy father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
TecumsehIn the âlooks of disappointment' department, my cat has picked up where my father left off.
Tom PapaI want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.
Ziggy MarleyFather's Day makes me wish I could talk to my Dad just one more time, instead of all the time.
Anthony JeselnikMy father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it,'
Carol LeiferMy daughter genuinely asked me to hand her the basketball bat. I might be failing as a father.
Greg BehrendtMy father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.
Hugh LeonardWhen I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate.
Jackie VernonMy mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.
Pete SeegerGive me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.
SophoclesMy father-he pretty much taught me everything I know. He still pushes me to be the best I can.
Tim LincecumAll the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
V. S. NaipaulThe most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.
Ziggy MarleyIt was the first time in years I didnât wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.
Ally Carter[My mother] once cooked a ham and later found it in my father's shirt drawer. I am not kidding.
Dick Van DykeMy father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident.
Jimmy CarrThe value of holding a grudge. And to always refer to my father sarcastically as Mr. Wonderful.
Jon StewartMy father turned my life around insisting I be more than I was and by believing I could be more.
Oprah WinfreyOnce I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'
Dhani HarrisonMusic is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love...
Jeff BuckleyIt never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other than at one's best ability.
Lord MountbattenI would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please
Robert MapplethorpeFor my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.
Tahir ShahPeople are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.
Thom YorkePeople ask me all the time, "What kind of father are you?" I won't know until my kids are grown.
Tom HanksI still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonMy father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.
Ethel WatersMy dear father! When I remember him, it is always with his arms open wide to love and comfort me.
Isobel Osbourne FieldI'd like to thank my mother, my father, the Academy. I'm sorry. I was thinking of something else.
Jim CarreyMy father instilled in me to take care of my family. Show up even when you don't want to show up.
Steve HarveyMy father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
Yancy ButlerGod is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget. Why should I worry?
Oswald ChambersMy father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.
Alejandro JodorowskyThough my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.
Anzia YezierskaI enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.
Dominic ChianeseMy father is an amazing fighter and what he's already accomplished is nothing short of remarkable.
Eric TrumpI don't need my name in lights I'm famous in my Father's eyes Make no mistake He knows my name.
Francesca BattistelliIn the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezMy mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.
Hank Williams IIIJesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, 'I and my Father are One.'
James AllenEarly on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious.
Jane Stanton HitchcockI went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.
Nick MasonI knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.
Robert JarvikI became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.
Salman RushdieMy father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.
Sandra BernhardMy father represented authority, which meantto methat he could not also represent understanding.
William MaxwellShould I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
Zebulon PikeFor years I thought my father was a hunchback. Turns out he didn't know suspenders were adjustable.
Bill KellyThe only people I owe an apology to are my dead parents. Except my father because he's still alive.
Chelsea HandlerMy father is a guy who will fight and he will fight for America and he's always fought for himself.
Eric TrumpAll of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.
Ken VenturiMy father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.
Kim WildeMama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
Lillian HellmanThe director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role.
Liza MinnelliDo you have it on your person?" my father asked. "Jesus" I replied. "My person has it in her purse.
Maggie StiefvaterI used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.
Mark TwainI gave my jersey to Mourinho because he's the best coach in the world and I love him like a father.
Mesut OzilThe child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
William WordsworthMy mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.
Alice HoffmanMy father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.
Gregory CorsoThou O Lord, art my Father and Thou my Mother. Thou art the Giver of peace to my soul and very life.
Guru ArjanMy mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.
Hugh LeonardMy father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.
Neil OliverMy father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start.
Paige VanZantMom, thank you. Mr. Palmer, my father I never had, thank you for teaching me what it is to be a man.
Ray RiceI inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.
Samuel JohnsonYou dare to stand with my enemy? (Stryker) Against you, Father, I'd stand with Mickey Mouse. (Urian)
Sherrilyn KenyonMy father was a great fan of the horses. His only regret was that I never ran in the Grand National.
Steve OvettMy father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.
Tana FrenchI wanna never have birth and fail as a father. I would never want the illness that killed in my Nana
Vinnie Paz