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“My father was a saint. I'm not.”

Father Saint

Author:Indira Gandhi

“My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.”

Mother Father Teacher

Author:Simon van der Meer

“My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.”

Father Novelists Screenwriters

Author:Sadie Jones

“My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.”

People Ifs Years Mother Father Born My Own Sea Ships Captains Uncles

Author:Joseph C. Lincoln

“My father was a self-employed, commission-only salesman. He sold double-glazing and fitted kitchens, amongst other things. As he never declared himself unemployed, there was never recourse to benefits, so if money was tight, money was tight. It taught me that we were a closed unit, and that we had to be resourceful.”

Ifs Self Father Taught Benefits Kitchen Units Employed Salesman Unemployed Resourceful Recourse

Author:Neil Oliver

“My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.”

States Mother Father Police Connecticut Sergeants Hairstylist

Author:Michael Bergin

“My father was a simple man; my mother was a simple woman; you see the result standing in front of you, a simpleton.”

Men Humor Funny Mother Father Simple Results Fronts Standing Simpletons Simple Man

Author:Chic Murray

“My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.”

“My father was a small claims court jester.”

Humor Funny Father Claims Court Jester Court Jester

Author:Steven Wright

“My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.”

Years Three Father Happened Towns Ill California Three Years Small Town Bankers

Author:Warren Christopher

“My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.”

Father Player Basketball My Friends Stuck Soccer Soccer Player

Author:Steve Nash

“My father was a Social Gospel, far-left liberal, and to some degree a mystic. But we did not have Bible readings; we had prayers.”

Reading Father Left Social Prayer Degrees Mystic Bible Reading

Author:Frank Moore Cross

“My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.”

Father Scientist Soil Surveys Geological Time

Author:Jim Fowler

“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.”

Years Firsts Mother Father Marriage Soldier

Author:Mary Wesley

“My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.”

Political Father Saint Statesmen Statesmanship Funny Fathers Day

Author:Indira Gandhi

“My father was a steel worker and Martin's [Schulz] grandfather was a miner in Saarland. In these occupations, there is a particular awareness of solidarity. That creates links that aren't present in other relationships.”

Father Awareness Particular Workers Occupation Links Grandfather Solidarity Steel Miners

Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.”

Father Stones Pianist Masons Vocalist

Author:John E. Walker

“My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.”

School Used Father Teacher Swim After School

Author:Gordon Ramsay

“My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.”

Government Father Teacher Areas Behaviour

Author:C. L. R. James

“My father was a teacher, my mama was a community worker, I taught in so many schools. So when you get that experience of how to communicate with younger people, put that hand on them and give them that old-school feeling, the maturity and adult, a lot of our kids just need the feeling of that love, and that's the frame of reference that I teach from and that's the frame of reference that all of our musicians in the Jazz at Lincoln Center.”

People Needs Giving Feelings Hands Kids School Father Community Teach Teacher Taught Musician Adults Jazz Workers Communicate Maturity Mama Old School Frame Of Reference Lincoln Center

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“My father was a television director and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.”

Wanted Father Behinds Roles Fronts Television Industry Directors Cameras

Author:Philip Glenister

“My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.”

Men Wells Father Dad Fingers My Dad Very Good Bones Phrases Good Man Farmers Tomatoes

Author:Sidney Poitier

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

Three Father Poor

Author:Junot Diaz

“My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk.”

School Father Names Mines High School Disaster Boards Drivers Honour Desks Cousin Truck My Cousin Melbourne Truck Driver

Author:Lindsay Fox

“My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.”

Littles Book Reading Father Tyrants

Author:Honeysuckle Weeks

“My father was a university professor and his thing was tenure. Any time I hear a university professor say tenure, I hear the word dinosaur. You're not supposed to be getting tenure. You're supposed to be figuring out how you can teach more students at a better price and more effectively. That's your job.”

Jobs Father Teach Students University Supposed To Be Professors Dinosaurs Tenure University Professors

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“My father was a very contradictory man. I mean, most environmentalists in America in the 1950s - of which there were hardly any - were not... paratroopers. But my father was in the 82nd Airborne, it was just like that.”

Men Father Contradictory

Author:John Malkovich

“My father was a very difficult man.”

Men Father Difficult

Author:Sade Adu

“My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.”

Hard Father Growing Up Growing Singers Crafts

Author:Bobby McFerrin

“My father was a very fun dad; he was always coaching our soccer sports teams, he made sure that we had activities to do. He was kind of goofy and fun. But at the same time, he had a lot of lessons to teach us so that we didn't grow up and just not be good people. I try and reflect a lot on how I was raised by my father in the character that I'm playing now in being a dad. You've got to be strong for these kids. You also have to be fun and teach them all the lessons, not just one, or two, or three.”

People Trying Kind Character Kids Father Strong Fun Sports Teach Growing Up Team Dad Be Good Soccer Coaching Good People Goofy

Author:Milo Ventimiglia

“My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn't like people who had no sense of humour.”

People Men Father Laughing Humour Hearing Strongest Recollection Funny Men

Author:Mike Myers

“My father was a very good amateur pianist, and he had a collection of books on technique. One of the things he had was a small volume of exercises by Rudolf Ganz, in which Ganz mentions the pedagogical work of the Swiss composer, Émile-Robert Blanchet, who wrote a ton of polyphonic exercises for one-hand. These exercises were a great help for finger independence, which I acquired early on. This might have given me somewhat of an edge, a facility to be able to knock any obstacle that was in my way.”

Way Book Helping Hands Might Able Father Given Exercise Independence Fingers Very Good Edges Obstacles Technique Miles My Way Collections Composer Volume Facility Pianist Swiss

Author:Marc-Andre Hamelin

“My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.”

Father Boys Very Good Ties Bows Knots Boy Scout Good Boy Bow Tie

Author:Bill Nye

“My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.”

Made Father Term Incredibles Very Good Furniture Craftsman

Author:Jonathan Ive

“My father was a very humble and down to earth man, and was known for being very honest and trustworthy.”

Men Earth Father Known Honest Humble Trustworthy Down To Earth

Author:Wissam Al Mana

“My father was a very religious person. And he prayed five times a day. And he did that throughout his relationship with Ataturk - at a time when it was very brave to do because Ataturk was cutting off the heads of the imams. And people thought that that was foolhardy of my father.”

People Persons Father Religious Five Cutting Brave Religious Person Cutting Off Foolhardy Ataturk

Author:Ahmet Ertegun

“My father was a very successful businessman, but he was ruined in the stock market crash. A big stockbroker jumped out the window and fell on his pushcart.”

Bigs Father Successful Window Crash Businessman Ruined Successful Business Stockbrokers Market Crash Successful Businessman Stock Market Crash

Author:Jackie Mason

“My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.”

People Persons Mother Father Atheism Childhood Monsters Unhappy Nervous Worried Sarcastic Happy Person Unhappy Person Very Sarcastic Good Childhood

Author:Paula Danziger

“My father was a vulture. My mother was a magpie. My oldest brother is a crow. My sister, a sparrow. I have never really been a bird." Lila resisted the urge to say he might have been a peacock. It didn't seem the time.”

Family

Author:V.E. Schwab

Source: A Gathering of Shadows

“My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.”

Thinking Firsts Would Be Jobs Moving Actors Found Father Left Half Stupid Amount Waiter

Author:Alfred Molina

“My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.”

Hard Father House Saws Ethics Work Ethic Inventor

Author:Carl Reiner

“My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses.”

“My father was a writer and an acting teacher.”

Father Acting Teacher Acting Teachers

Author:Noah Hathaway

“My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.”

Writing Reading Father Grew Grew Up Writing And Reading

Author:Anne Lamott

“My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some sort of gift and when it came time to try to find a publisher I had a little bit of an "in" because I had his agent I could turn to, to at least read my initial offerings when I was about 20. But the only problem was that they were just awful, they were just terrible stories and my agent, who ended up being my agent, was very, very sweet about it, but it took about four years until I actually had something worth trying to sell.”

“My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.”

Way Children Hard Mother Father Grows Known Growing Up Son Daughter Hard Way

Author:Caitlin Flanagan

“My father was able to play a number of musical instruments and I fell in love with classical music in my teens and I allowed it to influence me. I like to think I took and still do from classical music and various techniques, I have made classical albums and recorded seven different pieces of Bach on different albums and its all music too me.”

Thinking Made Stills Different Play Able Father Numbers Pieces Influence Instruments Seven Musical Albums Various Technique Teens Classical Music Musical Instruments

Author:Steve Hackett

“My father was absent and he was a hero to me.”

Father Hero Absent

Author:Greta Scacchi

“My father was absolutely no good.”

Father

Author:Charles Rangel

Source: And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since: From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress

“My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.”

Shows Father Interest Show Business Disapproval Adamant

Author:Paul Lynde

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