“My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've always had instruments around the house. He used to have a show like a 1950s rock and roll show with Little Richard music. They would do doo-wop songs and stuff like that.” LittlesShowsUsedMotherSongFatherHouseStuffRocksDadMusicianInstrumentsMy DadSingersLatinRock And RollBrooklyn Author:Bruno Mars
“My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.” UsedFatherStuffCreativityWindowFruitStoresFlash Author:Frank Gehry
“All that stuff about my father and my childhood is interesting up to a certain point, but I kind of capsized with the family drama a long time ago. Now I want to get away from that. Not that I won't return to it, but a certain element has been exhausted, and it feels like why regurgitate all this stuff?” WantFeelsKindLongHas BeensCertainFatherStuffInterestingChildhoodReturnDramaElementsLong TimeGet AwayExhaustedLong Time AgoFamily Drama Author:Sam Shepard
“I always revered people that I thought had an idea and proceeded through with it. I guess I've been that way since the day I called my father and told him I was going to study acting and maybe try to see if I could do well with that, and he told me: "Don't do that. You don't want to do that, that's just dream stuff. Get a legitimate job and move forward."” PeopleIfsWayWantTryingWellsIdeasDreamJobsMovingFatherStuffActingStudyMoving ForwardIf I Could Author:Clint Eastwood
“One of the tragedies of our day is that too many boys are growing up without guidance of a father, or another man, to show them what it looks like to do away with that boyhood stuff. As a result, they often move into adolescence and then adulthood looking like men but still speaking, reasoning, and behaving like boys.” MenLooksStillsShowsMovingFatherStuffResultsBoysGrowing UpGrowingTragedyGuidanceReasoningAdulthoodAdolescenceAnother ManBoyhoodLike A Boy Author:Dennis Rainey
“I'm sure if you see things you wrote when you were 19, you cringe. I saw stuff like angry poetry that I wrote when I was mad at my father, or photos I took where I smeared period blood on myself. It's embarrassing.” IfsFatherStuffSawsBloodPeriodsAngryMadEmbarrassingCringe Author:Kathleen Hanna
“My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.” MotherFatherStuffPianoGrandfatherViolinFathers And Grandfathers Author:Pete Seeger
“Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that.” KidsMotherFatherStuffTeachStreetsCrimeSeriousProtectCriminalsGangHardened Author:Steven Seagal
“I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important.” IfsMenKindImportantIdeasWholeCultureFatherStuffAirEffectsSellsSellingUnclesSalesmanBoyhood Author:Arthur Miller
“Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with Philip Roth's Patrimony and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes.” FatherStuffDyingMemoirFrankAshesShelvesSplendidPhilipAngelaRight StuffPatrimony Author:Mordecai Richler
“Every human being is a universe within themselves. Your mother and father participated with God to create a soul who would never cease to exist. Your parents, as co-creators, supplied the stuff, genetics and more, uniquely combined to form a masterpiece, not flawless but still astounding; and we took from their hands what they brought to us, submitting to their timing and history and added what only we could bring to them -- life. You were conceived, a living wonder who exploded into being.” HumansStillsSoulHandsFormMotherUniverseFatherStuffParentHuman BeingsWonderCreatorCeaseTimingMasterpieceGeneticsMother And FatherFlawless Author:William P. Young