I'd had a French education for three years, my father being in the army. From 9 to 12, I went to French school. I've been sort of part of the culture, part of the geography, since I was quite young - the imprint was there.
Charlotte Rampling
EducationFatherCultureSchoolArmy
I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?
Patti Davis
BirthdayFatherThinkPossibilities
I was 9 years old when my father - a strong, vibrant man in his early 40s - died of a heart attack. He was such a central figure in our lives that losing him was a terrible shock to all of us, my mother in particular.
Marillyn Hewson
FatherMotherHeartManLosingOld
I respect my father as a father, but I also respect him as an honorable chairman.
Akio Toyoda
FatherRespectHimHonorableAlso
We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class men with better dreams for their children. We just wore them out.
James McBride
FamilyFatherDreamsChildrenMen
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
Eric Allin Cornell
FatherMotherSchoolHigh SchoolMIT
Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College... and she was delivering a speech there.
Al Michaels
FatherCollegeSpeechSecurityShe
I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I never really pursued - with some Miami teams and a few larger colleges, and then I ended up bailing and began cooking.
Todd English
FatherTimeCookingOpportunitiesUp
My father is Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California, and yes, he was the Terminator! He is also a former Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia, two titles he earned as a champion bodybuilder.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
FatherChampionUniverseCalifornia
While I didn't have a father around, I did have - and what I want my children to both experience - the ability to explore, experiment and enjoy life as a kid.
Kendra Wilkinson
LifeFatherEnjoy LifeChildrenWant
It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
Xavier Dolan
FatherHabitMeBecomeFather Figure
There is nothing I've wanted more, or waited for longer, than to be a father.
Greg Berlanti
FatherNothingMoreThanWanted
I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.
Charles Kuralt
LifeFatherMotherEyesSocietySaw
My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas. I'd just sort of gravitated toward the arts, and I had always loved music and really loved theater even though I didn't want to act.
Patty Jenkins
FatherMusicWorldLovedYoungWant
I have never tried to bear a judgment against my own father because I consider that, in our European culture, one does not judge his parents. Now, I have expressed my disagreements with my father on certain points, disagreements related to the way one should express things, something that has also to do with a difference of generations.
Marine Le Pen
FatherCultureParentsJudgeWay
If we have George W. Bush as president, we're going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
Al Franken
FatherBackGoKindPresidentGoing
My father is Jaime Rodriguez from San Antonio, Texas, and I've got one whole half of my family that's Mexican through and through.
James Roday
FamilyFatherTexasMexicanThrough
I feel very lucky. The older I get, the more I see how random everything is, the luckier I feel to have been born into this context; the more responsible I feel to be the best that I can be as a person and as a professional. That was a quality... of the men on my father's side of the family.
Ethan Peck
FamilyFatherBestQualityMenFeel
My father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own.
Alain de Botton
EducationFatherMy OwnOwnClear
Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
Thomas Brooks
FatherHouseDarkOurEntry
My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife.
George Akerlof
FatherMotherHousewifeYaleChemist
I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brother, David, and an older sister, Betty. My father Fred worked in the mills as a textile weaving supervisor, and my mother, Mary, was a housewife.
Kiki Dee
FatherMotherChildrenBrotherBorn
My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.
Wallace Shawn
FatherBabyThinkJazzRecordsLike
Speaking as a father, there is no rulebook, and you don't know how to do it. You just do the best you can.
Greg Rucka
FatherBestYouKnowSpeakingJust
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