Boat Quote by Blake Bailey

My father was a German architect and graphic designer, who travelled all over the world, teaching teachers on how to teach. On one such…

— Dia Mirza

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where…

— Bruno Mars

My father was rich and renowned, and later - as I got to know him, went on vacations with him, and then lived with…

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.

— Michele Lee

I never met my father. He left before I was born.

— apl.de.ap

[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was…

— Kehinde Wiley

My father was an important person, the director of the school. He could talk to anybody - simple or educated. He liked chess, fishing,…

— Svetlana Alexievich

My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anything valuable which I may have acquired…

— John Marshall

My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.

— James Cronin

My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty,…

— Jill Lepore

My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and asked for…

— Susan Straight