Quotes by Dad My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education. Benedict Cumberbatch mum hard dad The generation now below me were born into a world where if you're a kid with raw talent now, you can roll in and land a lead in a Scorsese film. You don't have to have prove yourself by working up the ranks, doing the classics, and getting the canon under your belt in the way the great Sirs and Dames of mom and dad's generation - the [Ben] Kingsleys and [Helen] Mirrens and [Anthony] Hopkinses and people of that ilk. Benedict Cumberbatch dad mom kids My dad and my mom had to sacrifice so much, and had to teach us and show us the way of going about things, how to be humble, all those things. They helped us stay on track for what we wanted to do. Bengie Molina dad mom humble My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers. Benicio Del Toro cousin uncles dad The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. Benjamin Spock parenting dad children My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career. Benjamin Walker dad careers kind My dad always took to his heels when a nappy change was necessary. I am so much looking forward to our child. It is such a wonderfully exciting time right now. Bernie Ecclestone looking-forward dad children I always thought that dads in the old days where rather macho types who wouldn't get close to a baby, let alone change nappies. Bernie Ecclestone nappies dad baby I went back to a small town in Poland where my dad grew up. It was a very traumatic experience for me as a young man to know that my father's family were killed by Nazis, killed by Hitler. And that left, you know, if not intellectually, at least an emotional part of me which said, God, we have got to do everything we can to end this kind of horrific racism or anti-Semitism. And I have spent much of my life trying to fight that. Bernie Sanders dad fighting father The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. Bertrand Russell dad father children The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. Bertrand Russell dad family funny My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat. Beth Ditto squirrels dad brain My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood. Beth Ditto dad mom mother I believe we all need to be aware of the biases we have. I am aware of mine; I am a white woman who grew up in a middle-class American family with a mom and a dad who were both educators. I can't make it different - I wouldn't want to - and I don't want to pretend to be something I'm not. Beth Murphy dad mom believe My dad got me a chemistry book one Christmas and I burnt the garden shed down. I remember there was the most beautiful smell forever after in the remains. Beth Orton dad beautiful book Although my Dad was a talented calligrapher and both of my younger brothers were successful, I was the first one in my family to graduate from high school. Betty Dodson dad brother school 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 backyards dad dog 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 dad mother animal I grew up upper-class. Private school, my dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation. Beyonce Knowles dad class school My engineer dad is where my technical acumen comes from. I remember him taking me to the factories to see how what works. Often he used to open up his motorbike to fix things and I saw how the wheels worked. His car used to be open for dissection very regularly. All this taught me and inspired me to look beyond what I could see on the skin. Bibhu Mohapatra car dad skins «1011121314151617181920»