My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen... →
Rita Dove
My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.
Alexander Downer
Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I... →
Growing up in Ireland, when my family received important news, good or bad, we would boil water and make tea. It was the first thing I did when my... →
Roma Downey
I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.
Before I left home for drama school in England, my father took me outside one night and told me that wherever I was, the moon would shine on both of... →
Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and... →
Andre Dubus III
Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.
My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.
Gilles Duceppe
One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your... →
David Duchovny