#father

I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out. ↗

— Garry Shandling

#father #him #i #i think #judge

The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud? ↗

— Karl Shapiro

#body #father #force #give #grows

James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#brown #father #had #i #james

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#beyond #created #death #delivery #devastated

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue. ↗

— Martin Short

#father #had #i #irish #irish catholic

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing. ↗

— Dinah Shore

#been #could #counter #ever #farmers

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#chambers #gas #gas chambers #germany #grandfathers

I think people instinctively know that their job is to give service and that they are part of a community. It had a great impact on me when my father walked the picket lines and I walked with him during the civil rights movement. ↗

— Russell Simmons

#civil rights #civil rights movement #community #during #father

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything. ↗

— Carly Simon

#classical #everything #father #just #mother

I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another? ↗

— Paul Simon

#attached #damn #drive #driveway #father