My father followed during most of his life the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young and my father didn't approve of it so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress my mother was very supportive. She always said to me 'There's no such thing as 'can't.'

I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.

I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school swim after school.

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature I just wanted to do something else.

I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.

I must have got my detailed obsessive streak from my father who was an English teacher because my mother wasn't like me at all.

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts my father was an evangelist a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland spreading the gospel.

I am indebted to my father for living but to my teacher for living well.

My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.

I think that everybody in the world whatever colour or creed has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father uncle cousin or brother everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'

Sometimes because of my success I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong and with the other three I was too weak.

As my father used to tell me the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man a great role model.

My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.

My father was the son of immigrants and he grew up bilingual but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.

May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians the Buddha of the Buddhists the Jehovah of the Jews the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.

I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports or plays or school performances so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.

I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro so I was groomed for sports but I wasn't very good so my interests lay elsewhere.

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.