#father

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#depressed #father #his #home #mostly

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#all night #awake #bad #bed #books

By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#adequately #any #by the time #choose #college

My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#culture #cusp #exposed #father #first

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. ↗

— John James Audubon

#children #fathers #given #his #knows

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased. ↗

— John James Audubon

#because #duty #father #i #me

I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father. ↗

— Amitabh Bachchan

#her #i #love #now #play

I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better. ↗

— Christian Bale

#attitude #before #better #body #body language

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#converts #different #different parts #early #father

My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job. ↗

— Jensen Ackles

#agency #agent #angeles #brought #come