My mother never finished elementary school. My father didn't, and that was a reality for many of us.
Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.
Both my parents died on the young side. My father was 45, and my mother was 61, so cancer's affected me in a big way.
My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.
I remember having mice in the house and my father taking some newspaper and beating me because mice was running on me while I was asleep.
I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.
My father was gone when I was three years old.
My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
'Yes' is the mother of all positive words, next to 'love.' Maybe 'love' is the father of all positive words.
I shouldn't have to worry any time my father walks outside the front door of our home.
My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.
The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.
If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was in my father.
My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.
The singing was something I got from my father.
I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother and my family was to stay open to the experience, and learn whatever I could at every step of the way as it was going on.
The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.
I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.
I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I've been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.
Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
My dad claims that he was able to trace us back to the West Virginia Hatfields. When I look at the old pictures, the patriarchs have kind of a physical likeness to some of the men on the father's side of my family. I want it to be true.
My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds.
The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children.
Well, unfortunately, my father passed away before my first book was published, so he never lived to see me as an author. But I think my mum was suitably pleased because she was mad about words. If she ever came across a word that she didn't know, she would always look it up in the dictionary.
I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.
In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.
'East of Eden' is an important story for me. It's about a kid that's misunderstood and feels like he's not loved by his father. It's a very father-son kind of story, and it's not until the end that they sort of make up. I like that because every boy has trouble with his father, so it's very relatable.
I remember a good friend of mine whose father worked at Bethlehem Steel for 40 years with just a high school degree. That was a remarkable pathway to prosperity that sustained generations of working families.
My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.
In 1966, I bought my parents a carriage clock for their silver wedding anniversary. It was last wound 30 years later, in December 1996, the month my father died.
My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.
The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home Big Bill Broonzy, and there he was sitting in our living room playing, and blues was in my heart from the time I was 12 years old.
