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“My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.”

Firsts Bigs Eye Father Sound Records Player Listening Grew Band Grew Up Ears Jazz Caught Brown Illinois Tenors Coltrane Brownies

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.”

Hard Father Grows Growing Up Grew Grew Up Understood

Author:Katey Sagal

“I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.”

Children Two School Together Mother Fighting Father Levels Class Middle Brother Grew Grew Up My Family Seven Grades Middle Class Middle Class Family Two Sisters

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.”

Want Ideas Father Grew Grew Up Raised Entrepreneurship Roofing

Author:Anthony Mackie

“For me it was a normality having a father who was a world champion. I grew up with that, so it was never extra pressure. And I've never felt the need to emerge from his shadow.”

World Needs Father Felt Grew Grew Up Shadow Pressure Champion Extras Normality World Champions

Author:Nico

“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

“I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan. In fact, my mother's been married twice, and both men were Uruguayan. So I grew up in a very European/Latin American-influenced home.”

Men Firsts Facts Home Mother Father Generations Grew Married Grew Up Latin Italian Latin America Latin American

Author:Sebastian Arcelus

“I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.”

Trying Littles Mother Father Grew Grew Up Died Busy Open Minded Father Died My Father Died

Author:Sonia Braga

“As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father "giving" the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to "obey" the groom. And that only covers the wedding.”

Giving Lasts Father Names White Issues Grew Husband Grew Up Dresses Feminist Plenty Vow Brides Identifying

Author:Jessica Valenti

“My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.”

Mother Father House Grew Grew Up Jazz Opera

Author:Chaka Khan

“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 died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.”

“My upbringing was very un-Hollywood. I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch. I was never really smitten by the business in those days, never a fan type - just a basic kid watching TV. It wasn't like I was an insider. I was never really brought into the show business side of my father's life. I guess that's been a blessing and a downfall. But it's made my own work the initiation.”

Made Shows Kids Father Sides Born My Own Fans New York Tvs Grew Type Blessing Grew Up Hollywood Show Business Upbringing Downfall Initiation Insiders Watching Tv Smitten

Author:Stephanie Zimbalist

“In my childhood I was obsessed with cameras but could not afford one. After much persuasion my father Harivansh Rai Bachchan bought me a box camera which I treasured for years. Initially I clicked trees and nature and as I grew up started noticing prettier things-motorbike, sleek cars and cool girls. But the hamartia of life is when you desire something you cannot afford it and when you are able to afford it you are too old to use it. Now I don't need all gadgets but it's satisfying to know that at least I can afford them.”

Knows Needs Years I Can Use Able Life Is Desire Girl Father Tree Childhood Car Grew Grew Up Cameras Boxes Obsessed Satisfying Persuasion Noticing Gadgets Treasured Motorbike Cool Girl

Author:Amitabh Bachchan

“Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working.”

Ifs America Father Grew Grew Up

Book:The Lost Father

Source: The Lost Father

“My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then arranged them for part choir and accompanied them on piano, and then told the young people of their country, "Don't change a note, this is our sacred heritage." Father said, whether it's a fiddle tune or a gospel song, learn it right off the record from the people who grew up with it. Don't just learn it from a piece of paper.”

People Said Country Young Song Father Mistake Records Pieces Century Grew Paper Grew Up Sacred Notes Piano Repeats Tunes Heritage Peasants Don't Change Choir Fiddle Gospel Songs

Author:Pete Seeger

“A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew up in politics. This is why it seemed perfectly natural to take part in the battles of my time, and to participate in the writing of the history of my country.”

Writing Country Father Natural Grew Battle Grew Up Administration My Time Grandfather Senators My Grandfather Family History Perfectly Natural

Author:Gore Vidal

“I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.”

Heart Father Seeing Grew My Heart Grew Up Heal Holes Hole In My Heart

Author:Lysette Anthony

“I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.”

Father Natural Grew Grew Up Advantage Bounds Alternatives Stepfathers Brighton

Author:Natascha McElhone

“My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.”

Father Grew Grew Up Italian Household Adopted

Author:Louis Gossett, Jr.

“I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress.”

People Home School Father Names Felt Class Grew Grew Up Picks Majority Actresses Minorities Outsiders Daddy Pick Me Pick Me Up

Author:Cherie Lunghi

“I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.”

People Thinking War Country Father Force Felt Support Air Brother Duty Grew Honor Grew Up Army Soldier Warrior My Brother Officers Grandfather My Grandfather Air Force Kinship

Author:Kris Kristofferson

“I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.”

Stills Father House Grew Grew Up South Los Angeles Still Life Compton

Author:Ice Cube

“I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.”

Light Mother Father House Lost Tree Grew Grew Up Singing Tiny Golden Dawn Piano Palestinian Showers Chords House Music Golden Light Tiny Houses

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.”

Self Father White Generations Mines Grew Grew Up Ignorant Eras Being Yourself Self Centered Complacent

Book:Riding Toward Everywhere

Source: Riding Toward Everywhere

“I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.”

People Want Trying Stories Father Games Football Grew Grew Up Idols Telling Stories

Author:Cam Newton

“The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough. Trying to make it through by staying hard and phallocentric. To me, that is just an impoverished conception of what it is to be a black male. It doesn't do justice to my grandfather, my father, my brother - or just the black men I grew up with.”

Men Trying Mind Hard Father Black Justice Streets Brother Grew Grew Up Tough Males My Brother Staying Conception Diverse Grandfather My Grandfather Black Males

Author:Cornel West

“So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.”

Mother Father Names Grew Couple Mets Married Grew Up Moved Adopted Boston Elderly Maine Orphanage

Author:George J. Mitchell

“As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think its just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change the diapers, to tell the stories.”

Thinking Giving Children Important Stories Certain Culture Father Grew Dad Grew Up South Expected Hug Baths Diapers

Author:Clyde Edgerton

“Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.”

Looks Mother Father Interest Careers Grew Grew Up Guides Grounded Mother And Father

Author:Larenz Tate

“Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the 70s, Fathers Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Fathers Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded.”

Children School Father Grew Mom Dad Grew Up My Dad Cards Uncomfortable Fathers Day Single Mom Fathers Day Card

Author:Art Alexakis

“The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.”

Father House Water Grew Grew Up Bird Window Shoes Glasses Boxes Tiny Hospitals Plates Dishes Rags

Author:Patti Davis

“I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12 hotels, motels, a steel mill, a radio station, a club, nursing home, and a law office. So I think it's safe to say I'm a little above middle class and I'm a daddy's girl.”

“I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.”

Knows Feels Mind Looks Persons Said States Night Father White Taken Middle Grew Grew Up South Terrorism Usa Segregation Middle Of The Night Obeying Frame Of Mind

Author:Alice Walker

“My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.”

Years Age Father Education Grew Six Grew Up

Book:The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

“I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television'; it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.”

Thinking Said Kids Hate Father Watches Television Grew Needed Grew Up I Hate

Author:Robert Knepper

“I want to tell you about the God that actually showed up and healed my heart. Not the God I grew up, because the God I grew up was fundamentally, and I use the word advisedly, fundamentally untrustworthy -- schizophrenic, narcissistic, unreachable, unknowable, and my concept within which I grew up was that Jesus -- He likes me -- but He came to save me from God the Father -- who was the one who was angry and distant, and unreachable, unknowable. All of that had to come crashing down.”

Want Heart Use Father Jesus Grew My Heart Grew Up Concepts Angry Likes Healed Narcissistic Save Me Schizophrenic Untrustworthy Unreachable Crashing Down

Author:William P. Young

“I grew up fundamentalist, evangelical, Protestant. Those are my roots, and they are good roots. But it means the Pharisees are my people. I grew up with an image of God that was not helpful -- largely the face of my father expanded.”

People Mean Faces Father Grew Grew Up Roots Helpful Protestants Evangelical Fundamentalist God Image Pharisees

Author:William P. Young

“I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of The Wind in the Willows, which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.”

Book Ends Remember Reading Father Wind Grew Grew Up Dependent Exception Hospitals Household Boast Stepmothers Wind In The Willows

Author:John le Carre

“I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this music. My father was very close friends with one of the Bedouin tribes, so I would always go there, to weddings, and I was always very fascinated by that music.”

Father Sound Heard Grew Grew Up Village Fascinated Tribes Close Friends

Author:Maya Beiser

“My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy, I gypsied around with my siblings and my parents to, like, eight different towns, went to eight different schools. All those things were extremely formative, and I think that's what happens.”

Thinking Men Different Happens School Young Father Parent Boys Grew Grew Up Theater Towns Eight Young Man Sibling My Siblings Theater Family

Author:John Lithgow

“I grew up watching science fiction with my dad. It was kind of our little secret. It was our bonding time as father and daughter.”

Kind Littles Father Secret Fiction Grew Dad Grew Up Daughter Science Fiction My Dad Bonding Bonding Time

Author:Katee Sackhoff

“Before me, my grandfathers, my uncles and my father were all boxers because Native Americans had to box in boarding schools. But in my time, when I grew up in Lawton Oklahoma, we didn't have boxing. I was a wrestler.”

School Father Grew Grew Up Boxes My Time Boxing Native Grandfather Native American Uncles My Grandfather Boxers Oklahoma Wrestler

Author:George Tahdooahnippah

“I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part of me. It was a part of my family.”

Stories Bigs Father Grew Grew Up My Family Fishes Storytelling Storyteller Big Fish

Author:Susan Stroman

“My father was very funny, so I grew up with humor in the house. And I was always really attracted to comedies on TV. I was always really attracted to comics.”

Father House Comedy Tvs Grew Grew Up

Author:Susan Stroman

“I grew up not having a father. Golf is the father I never had. It taught me honesty and respect and discipline and it taught me to control my temperament.”

Father Honesty Taught Grew Discipline Grew Up Golf Temperament

Author:George Lopez

“We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.”

People Stills Father Poor Poverty Missing Changed Grew Grew Up Poor People Things Change Diplomats Somalia

Author:Iman Abdulmajid

“When we lived in a society where we had large families that lived together, especially in agricultural societies like my grandfather and father grew up in, the result is you always had family around to take care of you.”

Care Together Father Results Grew Grew Up Take Care Grandfather My Grandfather Large Family

Author:Atul Gawande

“My father was a racing driver, his name is Don Halliday. I grew up with it all around me. I have always been into fast, dangerous sports, even as a child. As soon as I got in a car I knew it was for me and that I would enjoy racing and competing. My mother was also involved in Solo One. She always said I was like my father and would want to compete one day.”

Want Children Said Mother Father Names Sports Enjoy Dangerous Car Grew Involved One Day Grew Up Drivers Racing Solo Competing Racing Driver Dangerous Sports

Author:Liz Halliday

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