I think in any father-son relationship, there's going to be times you say, 'Well, the apple didn't fall far from the tree.'
My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
I have that memory of dancing on my father's feet to all the music my parents used to listen to.
My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it.
My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.
My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.
My god-father, Bob Wall, was in a couple of Bruce Lee movies, and he trained Bruce Lee when he came to America.
Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
My father taught me how to draw horses - for this I shall be eternally grateful.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. { }
My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'
I'm the way the truth and the life. Only through me you will go to the father.
I've gone from, you know, being too close to politicians, to being too close to entertainers, and people's father that I'm not.
If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
