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When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy. — Bertrand Piccard

When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries. — Edmund Phelps

You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you. — G.K. Chesterton

I come from a very poor family, with sisters. I never really knew my father, so I miss this strong image of a man in my life. — Riccardo Tisci

My father had bought him a shirt
that said Sure you can date my daughter. In a completely unrelated topic,
have you seen my shotgun? — Tara Sivec

When I was growing up, we always had music playing in our household. I enjoy spending time with my father singing. — Pattie Brooks

The real demon in my life is my father. — David Lagercrantz

My father was a director, and he used to always tell me, "You should be an actress." When I was 17, he gave me a job so that I'd be in the union. — Katey Sagal

Throughout my journey in basketball, I always have someone to talk to in my father. I know how hard he had to work as an athlete. — Joakim Noah

Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: Make me young, make me young, make me young! — Kurt Vonnegut

When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.' — Jan Hutchins

My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films. — Celina Jade

Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting. — John Green

My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well. — Natalie Cole

Sweetheart, my father and I have put more ghosts in the ground than you can count. — Kendare Blake

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. — Charles Lamb

I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer. — Juan Manuel Marquez

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor. — David Alan Grier

My father would play Stevie Wonder in the car, but that never sunk in. — Leon Bridges

We didn't like each other when you were alive," I muttered to my father. "You think living in my head is going to change that? — Devon Monk

[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print. — Arthur Koestler

Something peculiar is happening to my head. I remember that my father was Barnaby, but I had another named Balaton. Unless that's a lake in Albania. — Stanislaw Lem

My parents, both of them had teachers in their family and were pretty well read. So my father voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower. — Jeff Sessions

Hurt me to see the pain across my mothers face, every time my father's fist would put her in her place. — Christina Aguilera

When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week. — Jill Lepore

Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses. — Facundo Pieres

When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy. — Chelsea Clinton

My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress. — Zaha Hadid

Born in Jabalpur, I was brought up in Deolali, where my father ran a small business of making fire extinguishers. — Arjun Rampal

Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot. — Adam Sandler

I wonder if my kidnappers know who my father was in Haiti, or if they know what powers they are dealing with. — Marc Ashton

I get sort of short with people and start grumbling and clearing my throat - in honor of my father - when I'm impatient. It's very charming. — Maria Bamford

I have a great pic of my father and Rev. Graham laughing hysterically at some joke with George Pratt Shultz looking on back in 1972 or so. — Ben Stein

I cohabited for 20 years with my longtime husband and father of my two now-teen daughters in a stable family household. — Sandra Tsing Loh

My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union. — Michael Leunig

I remember being very young and going to AA meetings with my father in Brooklyn. I thought it was fun because they served hot chocolate and cookies. — Rochelle Aytes

My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India. — Manoj Bhargava

My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old. — Carlos Slim

My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian. — Q'orianka Kilcher

The anecdote was funny, but as my father gazed across the river at the university of his youth, his Russian life was in his eyes. — Paullina Simons

I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis. — T. Boone Pickens

My father looked on in disbelief, overwhelmed that his son had been taught to eat glass and relish it. — Tahir Shah

My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons. — Roger Moore

My son smiled. "You taught me well, Father."
"What did I teach you?"
"That a spear-point in a prisoner's liver is a very persuasive thing. — Bernard Cornwell

And for the last ten or so years of my life, whenever my father was in the house, I've learned how to make myself scarce. — Jessica Brody

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on. — Jared Kushner

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls. — James D. Watson

I speak with my father about everything in my life. — Jared Kushner

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father. — Salman Rushdie

There's a tradition of public service in my family. I'm one of three boys that joined the military. My father was in the Peace Corps. — Phil Klay

We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father. — Maggie Stiefvater

I grew up in a second when my mother died," he told Sunil. "My father and brother didn't understand me. — Katherine Boo

I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world. — Anthony Kiedis

My father told me you have two loves in your life: What you do and the people you're with. — Mario Van Peebles

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. — Jim Valvano

I didn't know at first that there were two languages in Canada.Ijustthoughtthatthere was oneway tospeak to my father and another to talk to my mother. — Louis St. Laurent

My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin. — Marcus Samuelsson

My father's really fluent in French, but I can't speak at all. I actually took it twice in school already and failed both times! — Jean-Luc Bilodeau

My father was in the paper recycling business back before they called it recycling. — Daniel Keyes

My father didn't believe in war. He said war was evil, but if it came he would revel in it like sand in a storm. — Nnedi Okorafor

Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in. — Peter Fonda

What thing, in honor, had my father lost,
That need to be revived and breathed in me? — William Shakespeare

Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind. — John Jeremiah Sullivan

My father in his way influenced me and my sister to educate ourselves and to try to do things in life. — Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from. — Chuck D

My father was, I suppose, a crank. He had a fine, precise mind, which ignored what it was not interested in. — L.P. Hartley

I idolize my father. I mean, he has worked so hard in his life. — Chad Michael Murray

My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands. — Hermione Gingold

My father was in charge of managing the farm. — Julia Child

When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love. — A. N. Wilson

I might have remembered what my father once wrote to Henry George, I never do anything by halves, and am half hearted in no cause that I embrace. — Cecil B. DeMille

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s. — John Major

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room. — Sherman Alexie

I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head. — Macaulay Culkin

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too. — Caroline Kennedy

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. — George Steiner

My father had gifted us both with a package of suspicion that sat like a teeth-baring watchdog in our minds. — Tarryn Fisher

My father was both a scientist and a magician, but he declared that it was in literature wherein we discovered our truest natures. — Alice Hoffman

It was the first time in years I didn't wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too. — Ally Carter

If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life. — Apolo Ohno

Every summer my father gave us this incredible vacation, in the Philippines, Thailand, Europe - wherever. — Marie-Chantal Claire

You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone. — Michael Jordan

I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world. — Ryan Reynolds

Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,
and has wit in it, and instruction too,
if we can but find it out. — Laurence Sterne

I feel so blessed to be alive and so blessed to have to have a father that loves me no matter how much wrong I do in this world. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father. — Daniel Day-Lewis

I grew up in Southern Oregon. My father was a sawmill worker and a logger, and his job put food on the table. — Jeff Merkley

Everything they do, from smiling to crying, feels like a blessing. Being a father feels amazing. This has been the most spiritual moment in my life. — Ricky Martin

Like Scout and her father in To Kill a Mockingbird, my father would pull me onto his lap each night in our four-room apartment and read aloud. — Jim Trelease

My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother. — Natasha Trethewey

I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots. — Juliet Stevenson

In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might,
Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight. — George MacDonald

You killed my father," he snorted in a basso profundo rumble. "Prepare to die!" "Inigo Montoya? Is that you? — Kevin Hearne

Sadly, I can't say the same for my Father, who is probably in a different place - Hell. — Alan Partridge

It's like my parents' musical tastes are the mother and father of my music. It's their fault for making me so emotional and in tune with my emotions! — Chet Faker

More shouts, and then my father was there, staring down at me in horror: the minor pagan god, appalled at what his worshiper had done. — Marie Brennan

When I sang my father's songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, 'Can I measure up?' — Natalie Cole

My father had drawn number 3,004 in a death lottery in which German precision trumped Nazi brutality. — Leonard Mlodinow

Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built. — David Johansen

I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time. — Wynton Marsalis