I’m thinking of changing my name to “Son of Manana.” Of…

Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I…

— Teddy Atlas

My father was the role model I looked up. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me…

— Tracy Morgan

Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried…

— Jasper Fforde

My father thrives on fear. You know that prayer If I should die before I wake? I had sheets that said that!

— Christopher Titus

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had…

— Rupert Murdoch

My father was very encouraging.

— Paolo Nutini

“This was, I sometimes thought, the last gift my father gave me. And the best: His death stood out as the supreme-o excuse for…

— Jerry Stahl

“I don’t know. We all have to bear things, Ari. All of us. Your father has to bear the war and what it did…

— Anonymous

I guess, it's a father's dream for his daughter to be known around the world.

— Liza Soberano

My father longed for a better life for us, and when I was nine he got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast.…

— Katie Melua

“My father called twice and left a voicemail—who does that?”

— Megan Erickson

My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used…

— Don McLean

My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives…

— Chris Chibnall

(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and…

— Elizabeth Zimmermann

Things where looking grim until your father did this !

— Vegeta