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My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My fat... DONALD TRUMP
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... JOHNNY CASH I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother woul...
RICK JAMES
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... JOHNNY CASH My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever si...
RICHARD GRIFFITHS
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 knew Sinatra for 38 years. He was like my father. Frank Sinatra was my 'dad.' He treated m...
TRINI LOPEZ I always knew that I would give back. My mother and my father both believe you have to work hard and...
THOMAS KEAN, JR. With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure t...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE
I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certaint... YEHUDA BERG I had a very bad year in my life. My mother died in February. I was 16 in April and graduated from h...
JAMES ROUSE
Jem told me what Ragnor Fell said about my father,” Will said. “That for my father, there was on... CASSANDRA CLARE When my father passed away, he had his organs donated. In that painful moment, I was deeply comforte...
JOHN PEREZ 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
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP
My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intellig... TERRY WOGAN
The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but th... XAVIER DOLAN
I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God. My father was ... PATTI SMITH 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 Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always...
ART ALEXAKIS
My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight... STEPHEN CHBOSKY My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
ZINEDINE ZIDANE I knew your father. I hated him."
"That surprises me your Majesty." Loki smiled broadly at her....
AMANDA HOCKING My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called...
ED BRADLEY The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt ve...
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG
The one thing I always knew about my mother was that she always loved me, ... And I give her tremend... EARTHA KITT
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that ... DAWN FRENCH Seven years ago, my father and I realized that our relationship was extremely unique, especially in ...
ALLAN HOUSTON
He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa... JUNE CARTER CASH
It's true my father abused me and didn't love and protect me the way he should have, and at ... JOYCE MEYER He'll never be here for me to grow old with. He was my life. He was my love. He was my heart and sou...
ARMY SGT.
My father would pick me up and hold me high in the air. He dominated my life as long as he lived, an... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor an...
LARRY FITZGERALD
My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill. CAM NEWTON
I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. ... BONO I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the...
RANDY BACHMAN
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 grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His ow... SACHIN TENDULKAR Walter Grossman was a very handsome and interesting man, and in those years a vital and strong influ...
LEONARD ROSE
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 I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all... MARLO THOMAS
...My father muttered something to me, and I responded with a mumbled "What". He shouted, "You heard... STEVE MARTIN As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurio...
GEORGE MULLER
My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life.... APOLO OHNO My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog wa...
WENDY LIEBMAN My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.
DANNY AIELLO I had a very difficult and complex relationship with my father, ... It was only when I was 15 years ...
RAMON MAGSAYSAY He always left a nice drink for me. He was just like a father to me, although he never spoke my name...
LEO LATLIP We all believe that he's with God. He was a spiritual person. He saw the beauty of life, and I have ...
JEFF GWALTNEY My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My F...
DAVID KRUMHOLTZ I love it here. I believe my father would be happy for me and my daughter.
ANDY WANG
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD
My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to ... KING GEORGE V
My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he becam... IYANLA VANZANT He was there for everyone, and he would help till the ends of the earth. I would never change a thin...
FANNY HARVEY
I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my fath... STEVEN SPIELBERG Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everyth...
STACEY LEE
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... ROBERT WINSTON When I was a child, next to my own mother, no woman that ever lived took as much interest in me, gav...
HEBER J. GRANT Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, a...
BIBLE
Success was always critical to me. What it meant was winning enough praise and external admiration t... MICHAEL KORDA My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa i... GAIL KELLY My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very inter...
SHIRIN NESHAT My mother was a high-strung perfectionist. She would check my homework for the slightest imperfectio...
ROBERT LEFKOWITZ
My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied wit... TA-NEHISI COATES
I was taken out of school by my dad when I was 11 and lived in Mexico City, then later in Paris. I w... MICHAEL HEIZER I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing h...
DAN HILL
I never cared but for one thing, and that is, simply to know that I am right before my Father in Hea... BRIGHAM YOUNG My father always liked to have her around. He was so proud of how she looked. She was so pretty, sma...
JUDY TESSIER
My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, h... GREGG ALLMAN
My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a b... BILL NYE My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h...
JOHN LLOYD YOUNG I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would t...
MAHESH BABU I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very dif...
VANESSA KERRY My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicag...
WESLEY CLARK
My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my... KARAN JOHAR
My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my f... KATE DICAMILLO My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.
HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. JIM VALVANO
So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of... NICK CANNON
Even before I could vote, I was involved in the political arena. My father was an admirer of Adlai S... GEORGE TAKEI I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.
DANTE HALL When I was a young kid, my father was a big fan of Hollywood movies. He would make me watch movies w...
LEE BYUNG-HUN My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job...
ALFRED MOLINA
My dad picked me up and rocked me in the chair. I felt small and weak and I wanted to hold him back ... BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Before I was born my father disowned me. You know those ones who get the females pregnant, and then ... DREXEL DEAL
I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a ba... JACKSON BROWNE Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to by brethren,...
BIBLE
My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dream... SUSANA MARTINEZ
I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, b... VINCE CABLE Our Dad was a dominant force in the industry. Our agents knew me and knew I had worked closely with ...
DEBBIE JALLAD
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 could be very strict, but very fair. His father was the same. We all respected my grandfat... AZZEDINE ALAIA My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of m...
STEPHEN GREENBLATT It felt very good to work for an organization that sends a message that I believe in. And most impor...
BETTY GARDNER He has always been Coach Ingram to me. He was my high school coach. I've known him 30-plus years. He...
DARRYL BURROWS I am blessed and have been very fortunate to have played for some great coaches, ... My former high ...
KYLE BRADY
I love you, Savannah, and I always will," I breathed. "You're the best thing that's ever happened to... NICHOLAS SPARKS
