My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.
Denis Leary
My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.
My mother was an actress in comedies. My father wrote scenarios. They were not opposed to my being an actor. I really didn't know what it meant... →
Jean-Pierre Leaud
Babe Ruth didn't become her father until 18 months after he married her mother, Claire, on April 17, 1929, Opening Day of the baseball season.... →
Jane Leavy
In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York football Giants.
When my father realized he was going blind, he took up golf.
For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never happened. But, I had grown into my father. I... →
On winter Sundays when I was a child, we waited for my father to return from his tennis game with bagels and sturgeon and for my mother to object... →
Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.
Amos Lee
The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.
Ang Lee