My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on... →
George Weah
I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the... →
Sigourney Weaver
My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and... →
My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind... maybe... →
My father served 26 years in the Air Force as a pilot and a pioneer in our missile programs. I learned early about the sacrifices a family makes when... →
Jim Webb
When my father went back into the military in 1947 and was gone for 3-1/2 years, my mother was 24 years old with four kids in a town she didn't... →
My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.
Honeysuckle Weeks
My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing group that used to open for Sam Cooke. There was... →
Carrie Mae Weems
My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.
George Weinberg
My father wasn't a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something that was meant to help people. He didn't charge people like... →
Max Weinberg