I didn't really want to sing at first, but my dad insisted that I do.
— Aretha Franklin
I was quite young when my dad went into politics but, as it went on, I became self-conscious about it.
— Ardal O'Hanlon
My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.
— Arabella Weir
When I started watching matches, it was those of Marseille. After that, it was Lyon. I went to see them all the time in the league or the Champions League with my dad.
— Antoine Griezmann
I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he's been known to be a Wikileaker.
— Anthony Kiedis
I always told my dad I'd play professional football.
— Anthony Doerr
My dad said to always do what I loved and not worry about the money or anything, because if I do what I love, then the money will come.
— Ansel Elgort
My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we're purebred New Yorkers.
My dad's Nigerian, and I remember going to Nigeria, and all of these kids and adults and everyone in-between knew who TuPac was. They had TuPac t-shirts, TuPac posters, TuPac cassettes... everyone knew TuPac, and sometimes that was the only English that they spoke, was TuPac lyrics.
— Annie Ilonzeh
My dad is from India, my mom is from Russia. Fortunately, we moved a lot. I went to a lot of different schools and completely different cultures, so that's my background.
— Annet Mahendru
I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.
— Ann Romney
I grew up in rural Arizona. My dad ran a general store.
— Ann Kirkpatrick
Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
— Angela Carter
I'm just a pretty regular dad.
— Ang Lee
At my first amateur fight, I was seven years old. My dad took me to go fight San Diego.
— Andy Ruiz Jr.
My mom is a Sikh immigrant born in a refugee camp. My Irish-Swedish-Norwegian-Danish-English-American dad grew up Baptist.
— Andy Dunn
I had grown up going to Celtic Park with Mum, Dad, and my brother. We had four season tickets.
— Andrew Robertson
Many of my friends were there at Motown. The studio was only a few blocks from where my dad's home was, where we lived.
I've always said, other than my dad, coaches had the greatest impact on me.
— Archie Manning
I wanted to play football or be a boxer, but my dad didn't want that because of all the impact. But in 1992 I was watching short track, and it was obscure, but they looked like superheroes in their tight outfits, and I thought it was amazing. I wanted to do that. I made the national team at 14.
— Apolo Ohno
My dad was in a union.
— Anthony Scaramucci
As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.
M dad was a boxer, so he had this fierce, physical presence.
— Anthony Browne
My mom is very romantic. As is my dad. They appreciate real romance.
My dad's a photographer. So I suppose he named me Ansel just in case I would take over the family business. I guess I failed him.
I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.
— Annette Funicello
My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But the genetic link was not intact there, so I wound up going into business. But I love to write, still. I'm not a great writer, but I enjoy it.
— Anne M. Mulcahy
I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.
— Ann Richards
I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.
— Angelina Jolie
I've always been a Marvel fan. As a kid, I would pick up a two-foot stack of comics and read them in the back of my dad's car on long journeys across the States. That's how I used to make friends - I'd meet up with other kids, and we'd swap comics.
— Angela Bowie
My dad's been giving me Snickers since I was six years old. Since I first turned amateur, my dad's been giving it to me.
My mom and dad are from Mexicali, and I feel more Mexican than others who were born in Mexico because I fought for my race and for Mexico.
My mom was as brilliant a cook as my dad is.
— Andrew Zimmern
I always appreciated my dad coming outside and playing with us - or my mom - and being a part of the game we were playing or refereeing it or just being outside. That was fun for us, and it was very encouraging.
— Andrew Luck
I loved going to church. I enjoyed being a part of the choir and just doing things in and around the church. But as a young girl, I certainly enjoyed watching and listening to my dad.
Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.
— Aravind Adiga
When it comes to guys, my dad is the measure of the perfect man. And that's a pretty tough standard to match up to.
— Anushka Shetty
My parents never went to college. My dad started as an hourly worker.
My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
— Anthony Hopkins
When I'm at home, I am in full Dad mode, and I love it.
— Ant Middleton
My dad photographed a lot of beautiful dancers. My mom was a dancer.
Eugene Levy is such an incredible legend. He's truly Jim's dad from 'American Pie.' He's the kindest, most fatherly man, who is just concerned about everyone and making sure they're comfortable on set.
— Annie Murphy
My dad was in the life insurance business, so I learned about selling when I was about 14 because I started working as a secretary.
— Annette Bening
My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.
I grew up moving around because my dad was in the Air Force - I think this has carried over into my work in that I like to hop around from one medium to another.
— Ann-Marie MacDonald
I remember going round to my friends' houses and asking them to ask their mum and dad if I could stay for dinner because I wasn't going to get fed.
— Angela Rayner
My dad worked all day. He would get up at five in the morning and didn't stop working until 10 at night, every day the same.
— Angel Di Maria
My dad put me in boxing because I was this hyperactive kid always breaking stuff.
If it wasn't for my dad, I wouldn't be here.
My mom is an experimental chemist and physicist, so she is a cut-and-dried, nuts-and-bolts kind of woman, and my dad is a theoretical chemist, so we were definitely raised with his philosophical point of view: imaginary numbers and dimensions beyond our own. That's the kind of thing we would talk about.
— Andrew Sean Greer
