#father

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24. ↗

— Rachael Leigh Cook

#father #married #mom #mother #were

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#broke #father #i #military #proud

My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#always #excited #father #genetically #getting

Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations. ↗

— Herman Cain

#approach #association #burger #burger king #business

Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe. ↗

— Sigrid Undset

#consisted #europe #every #father #life

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#front #give #give me #grandfather #him

My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy. ↗

— Paul Walker

#father #protector

My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#ask #asked #because #black #blond

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#generation #grandfathers #had #more #our

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#died #different #dreams #father #i