Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
My father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who… — Alexa Ray Joel Copy Share Image
Directors have good and bad movies. My father also made some flop movies, and he had bigger hits, too. That should not… — Varun Dhawan Copy Share Image
More broadly across time and cultures, it seems, one perennial piece of advice to father has been the importance of acting tenderly… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
No father could ever be prouder of his son. I hold Charlie's accomplishments dearer than my own. He has been through so… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
My father fought in World War I and single-handedly destroyed the Germans' line of communication. He ate their pigeon. — Frank Carson Copy Share Image
I think I grew up with a profound sense of watching people who were good people, who were smart people, who were… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the… — Doug E. Fresh Copy Share Image
The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I am a father. My son's name is Max and my daughter's name is Billie Grace. Twelve years ago Max was born… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
I walked on eggshells a lot. I have a bad self-esteem problem, and my father probably facilitated it. He once looked at… — Judge Reinhold Copy Share Image
I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to… — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
I was born in 1933 in New York City to Frederick and Eva Weinberg. My early inclination toward science received encouragement from… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
My father played in high school. My uncles played. From age five or six, I remember watching all the games. And I… — Thomas Jones Copy Share Image
My mother loved my father. From my view, she let him get away with too much. It broke my heart to see… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
As a kid, I grew up middle class, but my father was a great innovator with an entrepreneurial spirit, and it wasn't… — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
Every morning when I wake and every night when I go to sleep, I'm thinking about what I can do to become… — Dwyane Wade Copy Share Image
I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
From my father, I got more of the artistic, the human, the sweet part. From my uncle I really learned the business… — Maurizio Gucci Copy Share Image
I never had a father, but there's no bigger honor, no bigger blessing and no greater job in this world than being… — Jason Taylor Copy Share Image
Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you. — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
The most powerful teaching a child will ever receive will come from concerned and righteous fathers and mothers. — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
My parents just tell me, ‘If you know what you want, you should stay determined and go for it. You can do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A Real woman allows a man to take care of his kids no matter what the relationship is with the father of… — KM II Copy Share Image
My dad has this beautiful spirit of being able to create no matter where he is. He's always been so selfless with… — Matt Lauria Copy Share Image
“What others might dismiss as the vagaries of fate, my father interpreted as dancing lessons from the Divine.” — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
My dad always made sense. My dad was only wrong when I didn't understand him. Had I listened to him, my life… — Ram Charan Copy Share Image
I'm actually Cuban-born, born in 1956, the year Fidel Castro came into power, and my father moved my family to Miami a… — Steven Bauer Copy Share Image
A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake… — William Watson Purkey Copy Share Image
My father, Eric, was bipolar and as he got older, his illness affected the family more and more. My mother was magnificent… — Rick Stein Copy Share Image
“T he name of the father of Genghis Khan is a word which can not be pronounced exactly in English. It sounded… — Jacob Abbott Copy Share Image
I think I had really good parents. I got really lucky. They said, 'You're a woman; enjoy yourself and believe that you… — Emily Ratajkowski Copy Share Image
All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work -… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
I really had loving parents, and my father was the example of perseverance... he never gave up, and he taught me it's… — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
My father is undoubtedly one of the nicest, kindest, smartest, and warm-hearted people I know. He is truly a light that shines… — Jenna Morasca Copy Share Image
As a husband and a father of two daughters, I want young women around the globe to have the same rights and… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
