I learned a lot from my father. I'm very lucky to have a father who was a professional athlete.
Joakim Noah
The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me... →
Alfred Nobel
My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume... →
Indra Nooyi
I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.
Greg Norman
My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.
Douglass North
When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life... →
My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure... →
When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely different stories in the... →
Jehane Noujaim
Al Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it.
I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
Ted Nugent