My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn’t end up in her position. – Gabriel Luna
My father and my mother were both teachers. They inculcated to us the importance of studies. – Hugo Chavez
I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father’s support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings. – Harold Feinstein
As a father of five, I sometimes feel I’ve spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals. – Graydon Carter
My father played five years for Valence in France’s second division. I’d always cry when he would leave for training. Every morning, I’d say, ‘Dad, take me with you. Please, please take me with you!’ – Henrikh Mkhitaryan
The activity of being a husband, a father – those are roles, too, but underneath them is the spiritual center that connects us all, and that’s what’s most important. – Hugh Jackman
Mum was a high-jumper and qualified to go to the Olympics, but it got into the newspapers that she was married to my father, and the church put pressure on her to pull out of the Olympic team, saying, ‘You can’t be exposing all your legs.’ That’s how strong the influence of the church was on us all. – Grace Jones
I believe playing for such a great club like United honours my father’s memory, and the inspiration and drive he gave to me when I was young. I hope he is proud looking at me from the sky. – Henrikh Mkhitaryan
My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was. – Huey Newton
My father is a college professor and that’s about the extent of my college experience. I’m sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again. – Gabriel Mann
I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father spoke it to us. – Helen Vendler
I’m more comfortable with whatever’s wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn’t measure up to the standard he set. – John Malkovich
My father was an engineer – he wasn’t literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world’s great readers. – Janet Fitch
I have two extraordinary daughters, who, I can say proudly, are doing very well in school and in piano. Daughters are a father’s joy. – James McGreevey
As the Only Begotten Son of the Father in the flesh, Jesus inherited divine attributes. He was the only person ever born into mortality who could perform this most significant and supernal act. – James E. Faust
All of them – my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother – were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity. – James Cromwell
As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father. I think I was only 8 when I read Edward Gibbon’s ‘The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.’ – Jim Harrison
Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make. – James Gandolfini
The hardworking men and women of this country identify with my father. He is tough, and he is persevering. He is honest, and he is real. He’s an optimist, and he’s a relentless believer in America and all of her potential. He loves his family, and he loves his country with his heart and his soul. – Ivanka Trump
My father’s values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals. But this is not the ghost of my father running for the leadership of the Liberal party. This is me. – Justin Trudeau
We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
We lived in my father’s studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would – it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question. – Jamie Wyeth
I knew what my father, more than anything else, wanted me to do. Seventeen, vain, and spoiled by poems, I prepared to enter a remote West Point. I would succeed there, it was hoped, as he had. – James Salter
My father gave me Dostoevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’ when I was in junior high; my junior high, angst-filled soul responded to that. – Janet Fitch
The courts cannot garnish a father’s salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat. – June Jordan
A man was defined, in my father’s circles, by what he could bear, the pain he could shrug off, the warmth or comfort he could deny himself. – John Burnside
My father was an engineer – he wasn’t literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world’s great readers. Every two weeks, he’d take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms – ‘Have you read this? And this? And this?’ – Janet Fitch
My dad claims that he was able to trace us back to the West Virginia Hatfields. When I look at the old pictures, the patriarchs have kind of a physical likeness to some of the men on the father’s side of my family. I want it to be true. – Juliana Hatfield