I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out... →
Sara Blakely
I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park.
Jolene Blalock
I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.
Cate Blanchett
I'm not interested in using my father's death as some touch point for why I've become an actor - it's grossly opportunistic.
My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.
I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a... →
Brian Blessed
My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast... →
My father certainly believed that one could make a living outside of an office, as he did. And that if I didn't want to work for other people... →
Amy Bloom
My father would have been spectacularly ill-suited to working for an institution of any kind, and I suspect that, to a lesser degree, that's true... →
If Inigo Montoya were around now, he wouldn't need to storm the castle to bring his father's murderer to justice; the police would do it for... →
Paul Bloom