My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.
Henry Louis Gates
Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.
My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.
I didn't feel particularly close to my father.
I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very... →
Grooming-wise, it is now a constant battle as I progressively turn into my father. I have to keep on top of ear and nose hair - things you never... →
Mark Gatiss
My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo.
Helene D. Gayle
My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
Haile Gebrselassie
He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat... →
The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more... →
Clifford Geertz