But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997. – Richard Marx
My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating. – Nancy Kerrigan
I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free. – Iggy Pop
So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy. – Billy Sherwood
My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer. – Sam Brownback
I deal with my sons like young men. If they have a problem with something, they come to me. I am the type of dad that will drop everything I am doing for them, and always tell them to talk to me about it. – Tracy Morgan
Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick. – Wally Schirra
As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years. – James Ellroy
I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad. – Lisa Guerrero
I grew up loving Walter Payton. My dad used to always show us film of him. – Shaun Alexander
My dad was a workaholic. I saw him work seven days a week. – Kay Bailey Hutchison
I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds. – Curtis Joseph
Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age. – Toni Braxton
I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps. – Trisha Yearwood
We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know. – Trisha Yearwood
As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food. – Danny Bonaduce
In fact, I had the idea because of Peter Falk. I saw my dad watching a Peter Falk movie and something clicked in my head. I gotta go make a movie for Peter Falk and me. – Paul Reiser
And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently. – Paul Reiser
My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves. – Moon Unit Zappa
My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover. – Tom Glazer
