I knew your father before you did, and I don’t think he’d be too proud of what you’re doing right now. – Scotty Bowman
My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers. – Yaya DaCosta
We call the Creator father, because we rely upon Him to protect us, guide us, feed us, keep us warm, to discipline us and all those things. I try to take my cue from the Creator, with regard to my children. – Terrence Howard
As awkward as it sounds. I’m not Shane Larkin, Barry Larkin’s son, anymore. It’s Barry Larkin, the father of Shane Larkin. – Shane Larkin
After working for a couple of years, I have realised how much hard work it takes to become an actor, and my father has gone through it all these years. It’s draining, both physically and mentally, but he makes it look so effortless. – Tiger Shroff
We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father’s side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal. – V. S. Naipaul
I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn’t keep up. – Saskia de Brauw
In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor. – Trevor Nunn
Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father’s Day, and I want to get involved in that. – Steve Garvey
Although my mother and father were both completely legit, it was all around me, this crime and licentiousness. – Tom Sizemore
And I think we created something incredible as a Democratic group, as a platform, as an effort to make a change in the country, and I think we did change this country. And I think we will continue to, and I know that my father is not going to stop fighting. – Vanessa Kerry
I never really get to go to school because I am always on tour or with my father. There is a tutor most of the time, but usually I am working so I never get to do the lessons. The worst thing about maths is all the kids are ahead of me because they go to school. – Willow Smith
I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England. – William John Wills
People are always going to assume I got my roles because of my father. There’s not much I can do about that. He and I talk about the business sometimes, but he’s my dad. – Spencer Grammer
My father’s father wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and aspired to be a playwright. We had in our house a couple of crazy unproduced plays that he had written. For the one creative writing class I took in my life, I didn’t do any writing – I decided that I would plagiarize his terrible play to not fail the class. – Stephen Gaghan
My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather’s house and watched the planes go over. – Sigourney Weaver
My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament. – Ziggy Marley
The paradox is, I can’t miss the good things about my father while he is alive, but I will of course miss him… when he is dead. – Sandra Tsing Loh
Michael and I had great role models. Though his father has passed away, his parents had an amazingly strong marriage, as do mine. Both weathered really tough times. For us it has been normal to stay together through difficulties. We grew up witnessing that firsthand. – Tracy Pollan
I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you. – Yaya Toure
I always knew that I would give back. My mother and my father both believe you have to work hard and give back. That’s why I was a volunteer firefighter, that’s why I worked in a homeless shelter. I always knew I’d give back, elective office or not. – Thomas Kean, Jr.
My father was very fond of reading. It was something we did at our home. I don’t think it fits the way people think Bollywood works, but that’s who we are. – Twinkle Khanna
My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions variously bemusing. – William T. Vollmann