I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean. – Usher
I’d have to say I’m most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back. – Steve Harvey
When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she? – Susan Estrich
Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there’s something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow. – Saad Hariri
My father believed in astrology. His astrologer had predicted that his daughter would become a writer someday. My father would nag me, but I didn’t write a word till he passed away. I wish he could see me now. – Twinkle Khanna
Every son’s first superhero is his father, and it was the same for me. For me, he was Superman and Batman combined. – Tiger Shroff
John Quincy Adams ranks with Jimmy Carter on the roster of ex-presidential redemption. Instead of completing a biography of his father, he let himself be elected to the House, where he spent nine terms in Whiggish opposition to the Democrats, supporting a national bank and a protective tariff and internal improvements. – Thomas Mallon
An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke – although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness. – Sonia Sotomayor
When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor. – Sam Neill
My father always cooks more polenta than he needs for a meal. The excess he spreads on an oiled surface and chills. Next day, he cuts out chunks, fries them in olive oil and serves with salad. – Yotam Ottolenghi
I was raised in the Baptist church… but I didn’t really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died. – T. D. Jakes
My father believed, like Pericles, that a man’s genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas. – Thomas Steinbeck
My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father’s Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They’re both first-generation Americans. – Susan Lucci
I tell people I’m a stand-up comedian two hours a week. The rest of the time, I’m somebody’s husband, I’m somebody’s father. I’m a man. I take great pride in that. – Steve Harvey
I’ve always acted; in fact, I can’t remember a time when I was not. When I was little, cinema was a game, then my father’s job and now mine. – Sonam Kapoor
My father had always called me Sam since the day I was born. He rarely ever called me Tiger. I would ask him, ‘Why don’t you ever call me Tiger?’ He says, ‘Well, you look more like a Sam. – Tiger Woods
It was important to my father that I go to Hebrew school three days a week for two or three hours each time. To me, it felt endless. Think about it from a kid’s perspective: I would finish my normal school day, then get on a bus and go to another school. That was tough to take. – Steve Sheinkin
When my father died, those years when he was working on the Hubble came back to me, and it seemed fitting to imagine him as having somehow merged with the large mystery that the universe represents. – Tracy K. Smith
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. – Warren Christopher
Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though. – Ziggy Marley
I’ve read and traveled a lot in the Middle East, and I built on eyewitness accounts of horrific executions that would shape a boy’s character and beliefs if he watched his father die that way. These are the stuff of which nightmares are made. – Terry Hayes
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. – Simon Newcomb
When my parents went off to Knoxville to work, I lived with my father’s mother. She was strict – the kind who starched and ironed dresses. I had to sit more than I played. Oh, I was miserable. I liked being out with the animals. I’d come in the house with my hair pulled out, sash off the dress, dirty as heck. I was always getting spanked. – Tina Turner
Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch in what was then Northern Rhodesia, providing work for the locals. He was my hero when I was a boy. – Wilbur Smith
All this technology has not changed the way NFL Films does business and our process. Yes, with one touch of a button now you reach millions of people but it is still the same approach that my father and I started out with. – Steve Sabol
I will begin first to search out this right by that magna charta, that great and faithful charter which was made to Abraham, the father of the faithful, in the name of all his seed. – Thomas Goodwin
Our Father’s commitment to us, His children, is unwavering. Indeed He softens the winters of our lives, but He also brightens our summers. – Thomas S. Monson
Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter. – William Allan