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“My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.”

Inspirational Years Funny Mother Father University Physics Department Faculty Chemistry Graduates Graduation Harvard Harvard University

Author:Kenneth G. Wilson

“My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she became a stay-at-home mother.”

Home Mother Father Newspapers Attorney Stay At Home Columnists Syracuse

Author:Siobhan Fallon Hogan

“My father was one of ten children.”

Children Father Ten

Author:Brian Sandoval

“My father was one of the greatest professional bowlers of all time. Seriously. Billy Hardwick: PBA Hall of Fame, Player of the Year in '63 and '69, and the first winner of the triple crown of bowling, among other things.”

Years Firsts Father Player Fame All Time Winner Halls Crowns Hall Of Fame Bowling Bowlers

Author:Chris Hardwick

“My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible. [Burnside, p. 27]”

Men Feels Moments Might Father Force Rooms Break Terrible Unpredictable

Author:John Burnside

“My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.”

Made Enough Humor Funny Mother Father Blood Figures Proud Indian Quarters Arithmetic Cherokee Cherokee Indian

Author:Will Rogers

Source: The Will Rogers scrapbook

“My father was only born something like 30 years after the Civil War ended, 35 or 40. He was born closer to that than the era in which he died. He was born in 1891, no television, no phones, barely any electricity. He wrote a book to all of us that was really just a compilation of the letters that he had written over the years to my grandmother when they were courting, in the horse and buggy era. Everybody said, "When did you have time to do this?" Relating their own lives to his. He said, "What do you mean, when did I have time? This is all we did." There was no TV, none of that.”

Mean Book War Father Horse Civil War Grandmother Electricity My Grandmother

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.”

Knows Way Want Mind Persons Play Desire Father Games Unfortunate Good Person Mind Games Overbearing

Author:Macaulay Culkin

“My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.”

Men Children Father Talking Bed Terror Rage My Sister

Author:Antonio Villaraigosa

“My father was pretty independent. He was - he was arrested once in Nashville when he was on one of his sales trips because he had a black - guy to lunch. So that took a fair amount of courage at the time.”

Guy Father Black Amount Fairs Independent Lunch Arrested Nashville Black Guys

Author:Nat Hentoff

“My father was prime minister, and to take care of his home, to be his hostess, automatically meant to have my hands in politics - to meet people, to know their games, their secrets.”

People Knows Home Hands Care Father Games Secret Take Care Ministers Prime Prime Minister Hostesses

Author:Indira Gandhi

“My father was quite an attractive guy. He was very intelligent and very amusing. I didn't like him. He was always very nice to me but I just didn't like him.”

Guy Father Nice Intelligent Attractive Amusing Very Nice Attractive Guys

Author:Truman Capote

“My father was raised by a violent alcoholic. There was alcoholism in my mother's family. I'm half-adopted, and my birth father was a drug addict and alcoholic. So, I think they very consciously made decisions and parented me in a way that was aimed to help save me from that. So, I knew it would be particularly painful and it was, especially for my father.”

Thinking Way Made Helping Would Be Mother Father Decision Half Birth Drug Raised Painful Violent Addict Adopted Alcoholism Alcoholics Drug Addict Save Me

Author:Melissa Febos

“My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.”

Father Mountain Dollars Raised Mexico Cotton New Mexico

Author:Val Kilmer

“My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.”

Men Father Player Football Brother Raised Chiefs Officers Petty Navy Boxers Football Player

Author:Hillary Clinton

“My father was really good at having me stand on my own two feet, both financially and philosophically. His whole parenting philosophy was to give my brother and me the skills to be grown-ups and the curiosity to ask the right questions.”

Giving Two Philosophy Whole Asks Father My Own Feet Brother Skills Curiosity My Brother Right Questions

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.”

Way Wanted Remember Mother Father Poor Doctors Math Funny Things Georgia Poor Family

Author:Herbie Hancock

“My father was right. Unfortunately, he died before I could tell him.”

Father Women Died

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.”

Father Insisting

Author:Elizabeth McCracken

“My father was ruined by hard drink - he sat on an icicle.”

Hard Father Drink Sat Ruined Icicles

Author:Bob Monkhouse

Source: Crying With Laughter: My Life Story

“My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.”

Long Book Age Lying Night Father Novel Five Mystery Television Bed Comic Awake Comic Book Spy All Night Mystery Novels

Author:Sherman Alexie

“My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.”

Light Mother Father Discipline

Author:Lincoln Steffens

Source: The World of Lincoln Steffens

“My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.”

Thinking Father Dad My Dad Confused Disposition Jimmy Jimmy Stewart Happy Disposition

Author:Jane Pauley

“My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.”

Father Accomplished Businessman

Author:Gordon Getty

“My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.”

Father

Author:Lawrence Eagleburger

“My father was strict and always taught me, no matter who it is, everybody is an uncle. To me, everybody was someone I respect like family. I grew up with that.”

Matter Father Taught Grew Grew Up Strict Uncles Like Family

Author:Mariano Rivera

“My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.”

Father Church Ability Strict

Author:Tori Amos

“My father was swallowed alive by his own anus. It was a terrible way to go.”

Way Father Alive Terrible Anus

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“My father was taken away during the Second World War as a work refusal. He had gone into hiding after the university in Leuven was closed, but was nevertheless caught and imprisoned by the Germans in the Bruges prison. He was eventually put to work as a forced laborer in a factory in Hamburg.”

Ww2 Vlaams Belang Nationalisme Filip Dewinter Vlaams Nationalisme Belgisch Verzet Geheim Leger Wereld Oorlog Ii

Author:Filip Dewinter

“My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious—to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels of fear, sorrow, and death stood by my side since the day I was born.”

Father Sides Born Religious Sorrow Angel Madness Seeds Nervous

Author:Edvard Munch

Source: Delphi Complete Paintings of Edvard Munch (Illustrated)

“My father was the best person i've ever known.”

Inspirational Persons Motivational Father Known September 11th Best Person

Author:Warren Buffett

“My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.”

Father Please

Author:Ang Lee

“My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.”

Thinking Father Scientist Magazines Editors Southern Desks Planters

Author:Tom Wolfe

“My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.”

Men Firsts Father White Schemes White Man

Author:Chief Joseph

“My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.”

Long Mother Father Kings Daughter India Islands Long Island

Author:Ricky Jay

“My father was the funniest guy I ever met. I'm not sure if I stole his stuff or if I inherited it.”

Ifs Funny Guy Father Stuff Mets Not Sure

Author:Chevy Chase

“My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.”

Said Guy Father Dad Block

Author:Damon Wayans

“My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.”

Mother Father Half Taught Pride Tradition

Author:Gloria Steinem

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it,'”

Kind Guy Father Subjects Jokes

Author:Carol Leifer

“My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.”

People Children Father Attention Kings Jokes Impressed

Author:Carol Leifer

“My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.”

Men Father Dad Rational Boyfriend Dispassionate

Author:Simon Newcomb

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.”

Men Used Father Gains Personal Gain

Author:Jayne Mansfield

“My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.”

States Mother Father Parent United United States Son Birth Areas Died Not Sure Immigrants Ireland Boston Sibling Orphanage Mother Died

Author:George J. Mitchell

“My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics.”

Wanted Jobs Father My Own Journalism Ministers Prime Grandfather Prime Minister Pakistan Inclination My Grandfather Diplomats

Author:Benazir Bhutto

“My father was the quintessential husband and dad.”

Father Dad Husband Quintessential

Author:Sidney Poitier

“My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me he was still a rock star.”

Stills Wanted Father Stars Roles Records Rocks Dad Models My Dad Role Models Rock Star Entertainers

Author:Tracy Morgan

“My father was the role model I looked up. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me he was still a rock star.”

Stills Wanted Father Stars Roles Records Rocks Dad Models My Dad Role Models Rock Star Entertainers

Author:Tracy Morgan

“My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.”

Different America Father Ability Common Principles Taught Son Grew Diversity Grew Up Backgrounds Immigrants Spokes Different Backgrounds

Author:Ernest Istook

“My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.”

Men Country Beautiful Found Father New York Men And Women Ireland Looking Good Being Irish Beautiful Country

Author:James Cagney

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