My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
Bill Kreutzmann

Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.
Greg Louganis

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.
John L. Phillips

My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy.
Joe Lando

If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.
Stuart Appleby

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
Rachael Leigh Cook

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.
John Knowles

When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.
Lou Brock

My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They'd always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh.
Dominic Monaghan

I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.
Bob Lilly

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.
Michael Reagan

Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.
Soundarya

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.
Tracy Austin

I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.
Peter Gallagher

A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'
Michael Eisner

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.
Alison Lohman

I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.
Bryce Dallas Howard

Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.
Keith Thibodeaux

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
Elvis Stojko

When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'
Rip Torn