Quotes About Influence

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.

I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.

My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.

My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

My father-he pretty much taught me everything I know. He still pushes me to be the best I can.

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

George Burns was the father I never had

He was like a second father to me (of George Halas)

My father did advertising photography.

In school, kids never really looked at me a different way because I think it was a different generation; they didnt really know who my father was.

I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded and fortified our lives forever.

When I die, I want to see Malcom X, Lumumba, my father, and I want to be able to look them in the eye

Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound?