My father could be very strict, but very fair. His father was the same. We all respected my grandfather; he was the head of the clan. Every morning, we all had to say good morning and kiss his hand. But not me. I jumped on his lap and bit him.
Azzedine Alaia
GoodFatherMorningKissMeHand
A lot of my father's family in Canada volunteered in the First World War because they saw it as a war that was defending the mother country.
Margaret MacMillan
FamilyFatherMotherWarWorldSaw
O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do anything.
Marshall Brickman
FatherParentsMeBelieveYouPiece
Fidel Castro for me is like a father.
Elian Gonzalez
FatherMeLikeCastroFidel Castro
Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.
Henry Louis Gates
FatherMotherI AmMeEverythingAm
I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
David McCullough
EducationStarsFatherMotherLucky
When I was 10, my father had to go to the local library to sign a release form stating that I was allowed to borrow books from the adult section.
Terry Hayes
FatherLibraryGoReleaseAdult
It's just a wonderful feeling to be a father and to have a kid.
Richard Grieco
FatherFeelingKidWonderfulJust
I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father spoke it to us.
Helen Vendler
FatherTimePoetryLanguageBetter
When I started, with films like 'The Bay Boy' and 'Stand by Me', I look back on those interviews and I'm amazed; there's no mention of my father; it's not even 'son of Donald Sutherland.' I caught a bit of a break in that it never felt like a weight to me.
Kiefer Sutherland
FatherSonMeStandLookBack
My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.
Usher
MarriageFatherMusicTimeI AmOut
My father told me about American democracy. And he said you have to be actively engaged in the political process to make our democracy work. So I've been doing that my entire life. Civil rights movement. The peace movement during the Vietnam conflict. The movement to get an apology and redress for Japanese-Americans.
George Takei
LifeWorkFatherPeaceMeDemocracy
As a kid, I grew up middle class, but my father was a great innovator with an entrepreneurial spirit, and it wasn't long before my family became part of the infamous 1%.
Betsy DeVos
FamilyFatherGreatLongClassKid
Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
Navid Negahban
FatherCharacterMindMeBadPlay
Me and my brother lived in kind of a shed behind our house, and it was cold. We really lived kind of a dirty existence. It was tough to move away from my father and grandfather in California. I wore socks that were so dirty they were hard and black, and I would go into the lost and found box at school and look for clothes.
Mark Schultz
FatherSchoolBrotherMeColdTough
My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.
Edward G. Robinson
FatherBlackFriendsTryingLungs
My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.
Herbie Mann
FatherMotherRussiaRomaniaCame
I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.
David Oyelowo
FatherMyselfHusbandBlackPerson
Da was a real fisherman. But it wasn't the catch that mattered, it was the skill of the cast, the preparation of the flies. I often think my inability to prepare, my desire to get going, are a direct result of watching my father making all those painstaking preparations before he cast his line.
Terry Wogan
FatherPreparationThinkResultLine
I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.
Noam Chomsky
FatherBookKnowGrammarGetSome
I hated being typecast in those roles. It was personally limiting, only playing stereotyped heavies. But I got those roles because I was angry, because that's what I projected. I was angry at my mother and father because they didn't get along, angry at the church. On top of that, I had an extreme lack of self-confidence.
Harry Dean Stanton
FatherMotherAngryChurchTopGet
My father gave me some advice when I was very young - whatever someone tells you in the future, don't forget Pele is the best.
Jurgen Klopp
FatherFutureBestMeAdviceYou
My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
Val Kilmer
FamilyFatherTimeDayMountains
My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.
George Weinberg
FamilyFatherMotherJobGraduation
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