Quotes of: Father Keyword

My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.'

Dave Chappelle

I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.

Dominic Chianese

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

Dan DeCarlo

Well, I have the same vision I think that the Founding Fathers of this country had.

David Duke

I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.

Dick Dale

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

I think my father had a certain degree of insecurity and need to achieve.

Dan Hill

Peace is a new father Searching for a job With courage and vigor With a smile and rigor But with a great need for money.

Debasish Mridha

My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.

Junot Diaz

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

James Gandolfini

What you inherit from your father must first be earned before it's yours.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.

Charles Ives

I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!

Laura Linney

It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.

Martin Amis

The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.

Christopher Plummer

I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time.

Eva Longoria

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.

Joe Strummer

We must speed up the time table for fathers, brothers and sons to provide their mothers, daughters and sisters with the same opportunities that they give themselves.

Madeleine M. Kunin

It is a burden because I get asked about my father all the time. I just need to accept that he was a champion before me.

Nico Rosberg

My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette of clothing were crucial to the pervasive class consciousness of the place and time.

Russell Smith

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