Quotes About Inspiration

I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.

I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.

Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.

I've always played for the acceptance of my godfather (Willie Mays) and father (Bobby Bonds).

What I learned from my father is to think big.

My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff; a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.

When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me.

People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

I admire my father greatly.

My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.

My father is an amazing man.

I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks.

[My father was ] Presbyterian [minister]. But I did not take the Bible seriously until I was forced to take Hebrew at McCormick Theological Seminary.

When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don't see any similarities.

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me.

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

Michelle and Barack [Obama] epitomize what my father set the stage for - they epitomize global community organizing. I'm a global child, I was raised a global child, and he's a global child.

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.