“My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and he grew up in Israel. I've been there twice, once as a baby and once when I was 15.” TwoAgeWantedMovingParentBornBabyGrewDadGrew UpMy DadJewIsraelIsraeliHomelandBaghdad Author:Elliott Yamin
“I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.” SaidEndsAgeYoungDifficultPersonalityDadBattlePicksMy DadNuclearEngineersYoung AgeNegotiatingScapegoat Author:Faith Prince
“When I was a kid and I was being introduced to science fiction by watching movies with my Dad, Kubrick is one of those guys that we used to watch, you know, I watched Clockwork Orange at an age that was incredibly inappropriate, but he sat there with me and he explained what was going on and you know, I came to appreciate it even if I was terrified at the time.” IfsKnowsKidsAgeUsedGuyFictionWatchesDadAppreciateScience FictionMy DadSatTerrifiedOrangeInappropriateClockwork Author:Duncan Jones
“My dad taught me swears when I was a toddler, and I saw, at a really early age, that if I shocked people, I would get approval, and it made my arms itch with glee. I got addicted to it. It became this source of power in a totally powerless life.” PeopleIfsMadeAgeSawsTaughtSourceArmsDadMy DadApprovalSwearShockedPowerlessGleeToddler Author:Roseanne Barr
“You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.” AgeCertainParentJudgingDadYour Dad Author:Ellie Goulding
“My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.” AgeRememberLike YouDadMetsMovedRateMy DadAverageAgentsMortality Author:Willard Scott
“My dad supports me. He said, "I wished when I was at your age I started doing rock and roll music. Then I wouldn't have to be a fashion designer." And I just laugh and keep it moving and appreciate his support.” SaidAgeMovingSupportLaughingRocksFashionDadAppreciateMy DadDesignerRock And RollFashion DesignerSupport MeKeep It MovingRock And Roll Music Author:Richard Hilfiger
“From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work.” AgeYoungThreeMillionsPiecesWindDadMy DadEnginesRecallsThree TimesYoung AgeChristmas Gift Author:Homaro Cantu
“I love women. I actually prefer girls, as a parent, because they disappoint at a different age. They go through that, "Dad's an idiot," which lasted a little longer than I'd like.” LittlesDifferentAgeGirlParentDadIdiotDisappointDifferent Ages Author:Tim Allen
“I started playing drums at a pretty early age because my parents were musicians. My dad was an amazing multi-instrumentalist and I can play a lot of instruments, but my dad actually played all the instruments I could play and then added another twenty five or thirty five different categories on there ...he was incredible! He got an act actually in Vegas, my parents Bobby and Phyllis Sherwood.” I CanDifferentPlayAgeParentFiveDadMusicianTwentiesInstrumentsIncrediblesMy DadThirtyCategoriesVegasTwenty FivePlaying DrumsInstrumentalists Author:Billy Sherwood
“I am self taught. My dad threw me in with a drum set at the age of four and I figured it out!” SelfAgeFourTaughtDadMy DadSelf Taught Author:Eric Hernandez
“When I was a teenager, I didn't get to do a lot of the things that other kids my age were doing because my dad was very controlling and he wouldn't allow me to go to school activities, like games and dances. So I didn't have positive expectations for my future or really dream about what I could do with my life. I was just trying to survive until I could get out on my own.” TryingDreamKidsAgeSchoolGamesMy OwnDadActivityExpectationsMy DadTeenagerMy FuturePositive Expectations Author:Joyce Meyer
“I don't think I really knew how fit I was when I was a kid. I rode with my dad quite long distances and I've been racing since the age of nine, so we did a lot of sport growing up. My earliest memories of my dad are watching him race, so it was inevitable when we were old enough that my brother and I would get on bikes.” ThinkingLongEnoughKidsAgeSportsMemoriesRaceGrowing UpGrowingBrotherDadFitDistanceMy DadNineInevitableMy BrotherRacingBikeLong Distance Author:Victoria Pendleton
“My father played in high school. My uncles played. From age five or six, I remember watching all the games. And I remember saying to my mom and dad even then that I was going to play in the NFL, and buy them a house and a car.” PlayAgeSchoolRememberFatherGamesHouseFiveCarMomDadSixHigh SchoolMy MomNflUnclesMom And Dad Author:Thomas Jones
“I got a drum set at the age of four. I wasn't playing that well, just kind of banging around. I just wanted to play drums and my dad got me a set. I played for several years, but I wasn't meant to be a drummer, I guess. I can play drums on my own things - obviously on some of my own records I play drums. But I didn't start playing guitar until I was 11.” YearsWellsKindI CanPlayAgeWantedMy OwnRecordsFourDadGuitarMy DadMeant To BeDrummerBangingPlaying Guitar Author:Shuggie Otis
“My dad taught me at a very young age that I should work harder than everyone else: Be the first one in and the last one out.” ShouldFirstsAgeLastsYoungTaughtHard WorkDadHarderMy DadYoung AgeWork Harder Author:Mandana Dayani
“Albert [Brooks] was rare in that he could make adults laugh. He was a prodigy. At age 15 and 16, he could make my dad laugh uncontrollably. And whenever we had parties, some of the funniest people of my generation - whether it was Billy Crystal or Robin Williams or John Belushi - would be doing shtick.” PeopleWould BeAgePartyLaughingGenerationsDadAdultsMy DadCrystalsMy GenerationBrooksRobinsProdigies Author:Rob Reiner
“I retired at age 40 because my daughters looked at me one day and said: 'Dad, being bald and wearing shorts doesn't look good together'.” LooksSaidAgeTogetherDadOne DayDaughterMy DaughterRetiredShorts Author:Alfredo Di Stefano
“God brought me to Himself at about the age of 4. My parents were devout believers and my Dad was in Bible College at the time. I remember hearing the gospel in Sunday School and I talked to my Mom about it one night before bed. It was clear to me that I was a sinner and I was not going to heaven if I died without accepting Jesus Christ and what He did on the cross for me. I was brought to Christ out of fear of going to hell. I didn't want to go there if I died and there was only one other choice in my mind as a 4 year old. I wanted to go to heaven. It was and is that simple.” IfsWantYearsMindAgeWantedSchoolRememberNightChoicesJesusHeavenParentChristSimpleAcceptingHellClearCollegeMomDadBedJesus ChristCrossesDiedMy DadMy MomHearingBelieverSinnerSundayOne NightSunday SchoolGoing To Heaven Author:Ben Zobrist
“I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels.” WorldYearsFirstsHeartCountryAgeYoungNextGrowsParentGrowing UpDadFirst TimeSevenMy DadLondonFortunateParisTraveledConferencesYoung AgeNext YearSurgeonsBrussels Author:Candice Accola
“I've always been quite mature because of the way my parents brought me up. They were very good at talking to me like a person rather than a baby, and I was around so many actors and directors from such a young age because my dad is an actor. I was more comfortable with adults rather than actually being an adult child.” WayChildrenPersonsAgeYoungActorsParentTalkingBabyDadDirectorsComfortableAdultsMy DadVery GoodMatureYoung AgeAdult Children Author:Saoirse Ronan
“Bowie mattered to me. He reinvented himself so many times - it must have been a daring statement to do that, risking failure. And hanging out with him and seeing him like that - he's my dad's age, born in the same month - when you find someone who's been through a really dark period, which most of his music I care about is from, Low, Lodger, "Heroes" era.... But he came out of it and made something that mattered.” Has BeensMadeCareAgeBornDarkSeeingMonthsHeroDadPeriodsLowsMy DadStatementsErasHanging OutDaringI CareBowie Author:Trent Reznor
“When I was still at school, I'd help Dad at the concrete yard he had prior to the garden centre. I was doing things there, like driving the tractors and forklifts, that most kids my age couldn't.” StillsHelpingKidsAgeSchoolDadGardenDrivingConcreteYardsCentreTractors Author:Rick Astley
“I hang out with my dad mostly, my dad was in the military. He's at that age now where his war stories and other stories have blended together, so now you don't know what he's talking about. One time, we were surrounded, then we ran out of ammo, then we were fighting hand-to-hand, then we started dancing, and that's how I met your mother.” KnowsWarStoriesHandsAgeTogetherMotherFightingTalkingMilitaryDadMetsDancingMy DadRanHanging OutOne TimeWar StoriesAmmo Author:Dave Attell
“I've always been funny. I look back in the day, when I would take the mic from my dad in church and just start goin', at age six, the first time I did it. I think 14 was when I knew I wanted to do it and promote my own comedy shows at the church. Then, everyone would come.” ThinkingFirstsLooksShowsAgeWantedChurchMy OwnComedyDadSixFirst TimeMy DadBack In The DayMicsComedy Shows Author:Brandon T. Jackson
“I have a real no-nonsense dad who taught me how to be resilient at a very young age.” RealAgeYoungTaughtDadNonsenseYoung AgeResilientNo Nonsense Author:Nicole Ari Parker
“My dad taught me to play the guitar. We grew up with country music. We had every Willie Nelson record (laughs). I was saved at a young age and had a great desire to follow God. I was really focused on that through my whole life, even as a kid and through high school.” CountryPlayWholeKidsAgeSchoolYoungDesireLaughingRecordsTaughtGrewDadGrew UpHigh SchoolGuitarMy DadFocusedSavedWhole LifeYoung AgeNelson Author:Chris Tomlin
“My career was about to change radically, in turning 50 I had hit the age where my Dad made a big career and his life started to unravel.” MadeBigsAgeCareersDadMy DadTurning 50 Author:Kenny Loggins
“After the age of seven, I began living between my dad in Alaska and my mother in Baltimore. Every three or four months, I would fly the 5,000 miles between the two. And having grown up in Alaska, Baltimore was astonishing.” TwoAgeMotherThreeFourMonthsDadSevenMy DadMilesAstonishingAlaskaBaltimore Author:Leigh Newman
“I have very good advice to give to kids this age, which is, you shouldn't listen to your mum or dad and you just have to work it out for yourself. And the reason I've taken the age range down this year, and I never would have done it 10 years ago, is what I've seen with the success of Willow Smith. You don't have to be so cutesy anymore.” GivingYearsReasonDoneKidsAgeTakenAdviceDadYears AgoVery GoodRangeWorking ItMumGood AdviceYour Mum Author:Simon Cowell
“I think I was around 15 when my Dad was 40 and thought, "Man he's old. There's no way I'll be skating at that age."” ThinkingMenWayAgeDadMy DadSkating Author:Christian Hosoi
“I was fortunate to start the sport at a young age. I was 6 years old when my dad started teaching me. We started playing tournaments together when I was 11, in the lower ranking of beach volleyball in California. We weren't playing against kids; we played against grown men, so immediately, I had to raise my game to compete.” MenYearsKidsAgeTogetherYoungGamesSportsTeachingDadRaisesMy DadBeachFortunateCaliforniaYoung AgeTournamentsVolleyballRankingGrown ManBeach Volleyball Author:Karch Kiraly
“I'm a small town boy from a place not too different from Farmville. I grew up with a corn field in my backyard. My grandfather had emigrated to this country when he was about my son's age. My mom and dad built everything that matters in a small town in southern Indiana. They built a family and a good name and a business, and they raised a family.” DifferentCountryMatterAgeNamesBoysFieldsSonGrewMomDadGrew UpBuiltTownsRaisedMy MomMy SonSouthernGrandfatherSmall TownCornMy GrandfatherBackyardsIndianaMom And Dad Author:Mike Pence
“I was so lucky. I had a dad and a mom that loved me and my sisters so much. My Uncle Mike and Uncle Frank were married. They must be together for fortysomething years now. Long story short, there was never any stigma attached to that. At the youngest age, I remember my dad saying, "Sometimes men love men and women love women. It's nature.” MenYearsLongSometimesStoriesAgeTogetherRememberMomDadLuckyMarriedMen And WomenMy DadMy SisterFrankUnclesMikeStigmaSo LuckyLong Story Author:Michael Buble
“I got into comics about the same time as music. By 12 years old, I had discovered my dad's killer comic book collection filled with Silver Age books from his youth...early Spider-Man, Thor, Fantastic Four, The Hulk, Detective Comics, Action Comics, you name it. Seeing those old books got me interested in new comics, so my friends and I would hit the local comic shop every Saturday to pick up the cool titles of my generation.” MenYearsBookAgeActionNamesFourSeeingGenerationsYouthDadPicksMy FriendsFilledMy DadLocalsComicFantasticTitlesCollectionsShopsSilverKillersComic BookSaturdaySpidersDetectivesMy GenerationSpider ManOld BooksFantastic Four Author:Alan Robert
“In fact, I lost my dad at a young age and had to put myself through school. I didn't have a lot of the advantages Donald Trump had but I had the most important ones you can get, which are loving parents who cared about me and helped me develop a sense of self. But it certainly wasn't Donald Trump's doing.” ImportantSelfFactsAgeSchoolYoungLostParentTrumpDadAdvantageMy DadYoung AgeSense Of SelfLoving ParentsLost My Dad Author:Megyn Kelly
“My mom lost her dad at a very young age, and has this sort of belief system of, you know, "If there's something that you want to do, if there's something that means a lot to you, do it now."” IfsKnowsWantMeanAgeYoungBeliefLostMomDadMy MomYoung AgeBelief Systems Author:Emma Stone
“At an early age my dad - probably because he's a journalist - said: "Just have something to say. Don't just blather. Always have one line in your mind." So, that was always my thing whenever I met someone when I was younger, if ever I got to meet a real celebrity.” MindRealAgeDadMy DadJournalistOne Line Author:Patrick Wilson
“When you know your mom and dad are doing things that are not idyllic, as far as your desire to defer to a parental ideal, you start to see your parents as peers, perhaps, and that's not the healthiest thing at that early an age.” AgeDesireParentMomDadYour MomParentalMom And Dad Author:Jason Bateman
“It's always an interesting question of what was it like as Norman Mailer's son because I could easily turn it back and say what's it like not to. I didn't always realize my dad was Norman Mailer. I always knew he was Dad, and then I forget the exact age when it dawned on me that, you know, he is actually someone who affects the public consciousness of the time. It was amazing. I mean he was a rock star and brilliant and kind and funny and generous and scary when he needed to be and, you know, hard as a father.” KindMeanAgeFatherRealizingForgetInterestingConsciousnessSonDadMy DadScaryBrilliantGenerousRock Star Author:John Buffalo Mailer
“My career plan at this point is 'Ice Age 5' through '10,' and even '12,' and 'Spider Man' - you know, basically I'd be Emma Stone's dad for the rest of my career. I really don't have any problem doing that.” KnowsMenProblemAgeCareersPlansDadStonesIceSpidersEmmaSpider ManIce Age Author:Denis Leary
“When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.” KidsAgeLostStuffStepsTaughtDadDriversFarmersCowsCowboyTruckPart TimeTruck DriverStep Dad Author:Tim McGraw