My father used to say I would inherit his house but not…

Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is…

— Ansel Adams

“My father reminds me that according to Midrash - the ever-evolving commentary upon the Hebrew scriptures - when you arrive in the world as…

— David Shields

There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want…

— Margaret Atwood

And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the…

— Bruce Nauman

My father has a great voice. My father used to sing... just sing.

— Marvin Gaye

My father used to be away for months at a time, and he'd never leave any money for food, so my brother and I…

— Norman Wisdom

It's true my father used to work 18 hours a day as a security guard to help support my dream of becoming a footballer.…

— Miguel Almiron

My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every year.

— Amar'e Stoudemire

As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to…

— A. P. Herbert

As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always…

— Bill Bryson

My father used to call me 'bird bones' and, well, the name fits.

— Chuck Palahniuk

My father used to say, 'Well, Ann, maybe the best thing you'll ever do, you haven't even thought of yet.'

— Ann Curry

“My father used to say that someone who used foul language was someone who needed to study vocabulary because there were more civilized ways…

— Debbie Macomber

My father used to say, 'What the hell are you listening to? Put that bloody rubbish off.' And it was The Beatles.

— David Jason

“My father used to say, “a day spent breathing is a good day”

— Raymond E. Feist