I have a great pic of my father and Rev. Graham laughing hysterically at some joke with George Pratt Shultz looking on back in 1972 or so.
Ben Stein
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being... →
Gertrude Stein
My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to... →
Thomas Steinbeck
The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.
My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular the biographies of those people who had risked... →
I started writing serious books so late because I knew I'd be accused of riding on my father's coattails.
My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his... →
My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman.
My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better you get at it. It's like... →
I thought my dad was out of work, because my friends had fathers with briefcases who'd go off somewhere with bow ties on. But my father would... →