I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
My father had very little formal education.
I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.
I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends.
One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.
I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.
My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.
My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited.
I was an outcast growing up with a bunch of Christian people. My father didn't go to church, and that was not good news if you lived right in the middle of it.
I have no doubt that I'd be a marvelous father. Maybe not when they're tiny, but when they're a little bit older, I think I'd be rather good.
Everyone's unique; no one's ever alike. But my son has the same good cheer as my father. He's capable of making a room happy with a few words.
My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work.
My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.
I have a very down-to-earth father. My wife is an actress and famous herself is more down-to-earth than anyone I know.
My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever.
I was brought up in a Christian home in Australia with a father who was very bold about his faith.
