My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which... →
Jeremy Irons
I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do... →
Monte Irvin
My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, 'If people would only live by the Golden Rule... →
I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one day here and the next day not; a sense... →
John Irving
No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am -... →
I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved... →
The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.
I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.
Oscar Isaac
My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.
Darrell Issa
My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's... →
Ernest Istook