My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a... →
Immanuel Velikovsky
When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he... →
I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father spoke it to... →
Helen Vendler
My mother is black and my father is Filipino. I got the best of both worlds.
Cassie Ventura
My father used to always say to me that, you know, if a guy goes out to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, they'll give him 10 years, but... →
Jesse Ventura
My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'
Ken Venturi
When my father spoke, it was to say something meaningful.
My father was a man of few words.
The wisest man may be a blind father.
Jules Verne
My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken... →
Antonio Villaraigosa