My dad’s songs were really written to make certain people feel as though they had some kind of value. Because they were told from where they work and from the countries they had immigrated from that they did not. – Arlo Guthrie
My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer’s mind-set: Everything’s kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem? – Bill Keller
They tried to make my dad play professional basketball. But he was married young, too, at 20 years old. He wanted to have a family and said that money was not enough. – Asdrubal Cabrera
That’s all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother discuss things about poetry and delivery and voice and diction – I don’t think anyone could know how much it really means. – Chuck Berry
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. – Aldous Huxley
My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don’t know how I would have lived without animals around me. I’m fascinated by them – both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it’s made such a difference in my lifetime. – Betty White
I grew up with my parents in the kitchen discussing the audition my dad had that day or moaning about something or other in the industry, so it was unglamourised and normalised for me from a very young age. – Bel Powley
I’ve wanted to follow my dad into acting for as long as I can remember. ‘I’ve had a very serious round of dramatic training, and I like action films that take their characters seriously, so I figure I’m making it the best of both worlds if I try to bring some serious acting to a shoot-’em-up picture. – Brandon Lee
My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That’s the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads. – Boomer Esiason
I’m concerned about heart disease. I’ve raised money to fight heart disease; my dad died of it. – Anderson Cooper
I’d like to be able to show ‘Rapid Fire’ to my dad. I’m that proud of what we’ve accomplished within the framework of the action-adventure formula. – Brandon Lee
During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs. – Betty White
One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other. – Camryn Manheim
My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative in my family. – Bobby Clarke
My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo. – Arabella Weir
My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals. – Alastair Campbell
My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian. – Catherine Opie
I’m an artist, and I go in the studio and make my music. And then I’ll give it to my dad and he does what he does. And he does, you know, the press, and figuring out shows and whatnot. When it comes to my artistic freedom, he doesn’t, like, step on my toes or anything. – Ashlee Simpson
My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument. – Bill Kreutzmann
The full thing is God-given. I don’t know how I got my swing or what I did. I know I worked every single day. I know I did as much as I could with my dad. But I never really looked at anything mechanical. There was nothing really like, ‘Oh, put your hands here.’ It was, ‘Where are you comfortable? You’re comfortable here; hit from there.’ – Bryce Harper
I’ve always been a Marvel fan. As a kid, I would pick up a two-foot stack of comics and read them in the back of my dad’s car on long journeys across the States. That’s how I used to make friends – I’d meet up with other kids, and we’d swap comics. – Angela Bowie
My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate – he didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life. – Al Franken
I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and art, and I guess growing up, he exposed me to a lot of culture, and I just started making Super-8 films in high school and decided I wanted to be a filmmaker. – Bill Paxton
I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad’s Benny Goodman records. – Alvin Lee
