Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.
— Bill Gates
I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.
— Bill Bryson
I buried my dad the day I started Craig David's tour. Buried him, got on this tour bus in Stratford, and hit the road. Mixed emotions.
— Big Narstie
My dad is Jean-Paul Bourelly, a really prestige guitar player in Europe, and he toured with Miles Davis. I was always surrounded by the most prestige kind of musicians from Senegal, Trinidad, Poland, Nigeria, and all around the world.
— Bibi Bourelly
My dad was very critical and had very high expectations without a lot of the details filled in. It was, 'I expect you to achieve greatness in grades, in athletics, in whatever you do.'
— Beto O'Rourke
My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.
— Beth Ditto
My dad introduced me to baseball. Then one of my friends asked if I could play on a team; my dad said I could, and I just fell in love with the game.
— Bert Blyleven
I quit college and neglected to tell my dad.
— Benmont Tench
My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.
— Benjamin Walker
My dad used to do it when we were little, and I tried it when we played around in the back yard. Eventually, I got a bat and a real ball and played around to see if I could hit left-handed.
— Ben Zobrist
I'm a big guy, but I play with a guard mentality. I got that from my dad, and it's always stayed with me.
— Ben Simmons
I'm a have-a-go dad. I like babies.
— Ben Miller
I remember watching 'EastEnders' as a kid with my mum, and even my dad would be gripped by the odd episode. So to think I would be part of the show was a strange feeling at first.
— Ben Hardy
My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.
— Ben Barnes
My dad's an actor, and my mum's a casting director and a writer.
— Bel Powley
My dad is a phenomenal skier.
— Beau Biden
Be there for my dad, like he was for me.
I'm a California Angels fan because that's the first game my dad took me to see, and they stuck with me.
— Bill Engvall
I grew up watching my dad scout games live. They played on Saturday. Sometimes they wouldn't get the films until Monday. Sunday air shipping from wherever the college team was located - Starkville, Mississippi, or wherever the film was coming from. It took two days.
— Bill Belichick
My dad and I speak better when we play together.
During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.
— Betty White
My dad dropped out of school in middle school, but he reads five or six books a week, and my mom reads about two.
— Beth Macy
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
— Bertrand Russell
I was called a 'CD' by a suicidal teenager, who is alive today because I became her 'Chosen Dad,' who loved her. We all have the potential to re-parent ourselves and others.
— Bernie Siegel
My aunt Maxie had a plastic guitar in her closet, and I started playing that, going nuts on it. I went to stay with my dad, and he saw how much I was into it, and I put my first guitar on layaway. It was a Kay Starter Series guitar and Gorilla amplifier.
— Benji Hughes
My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.
— Benicio Del Toro
My dad was a pastor, so we were in church all the time.
I enjoyed my time at L.S.U. I wouldn't change it for anything. My dad went to college - my sisters, brothers - so I felt like I just had to, and I enjoyed it.
Prostate cancer has taken a lot from me. First it took my grandfather and then my dad.
I guess I'm weirder than I thought, particularly as I think about me as a dad.
— Ben Falcone
My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.
My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.
— Beau Bridges
Look, would I think my dad would make a great president in 2016 and going forward? Of course.
When crime was spiking in our communities, Dad wrote the crime bill that put 100,000 cops on the streets and led to an eight-year drop in crime across the country.
My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works, works, works, works, works. I think it would be hard to find a guy who's logged more hours than that guy.
— Bill Burr
My dad was a great dad.
— Bijou Phillips
My dad raised me on everything from his music to Stevie Wonder to A Tribe Called Quest. I learned the 'Midnight Marauders' album in and out.
My dad was an army cook, so I sort of come from that. But, working on 'Westworld,' a lot of the guys who I'm rolling up in there with, they're actually ex-military people.
— Betty Gabriel
My dad was a house painter. He was often unemployed by the time I came along.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
My dad was one who - he was nonpartisan, first of all. He learned to work with whatever administration was in office.
— Bernice King
Preacher's kids usually go one way or the other - way wild, or they follow in their dad's footsteps.
— Benjamin Watson
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
Growing up in Australia and the way I was raised, my dad told me to play as a team and to be a team player. You have five guys on the court. It's easy for five guys to defend one guy. It's hard to guard five. It's just a natural thing to do.
If you're not ten minutes early where I'm from, my dad chews you out.
— Ben Sasse
My dad taught not only tolerance but appreciation for every human being.
— Ben Howland
He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.
— Ben E. King
My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.
— Ben Affleck
We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.
Look, I've got a great dad.
