My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because frankly he could make more money doing that.
My mother was an actress and my voice teacher an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor and my stepfather who raised me along with my mother is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.
My father was a writer and an acting teacher.
A father is a person who's around participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person someone for that young person to talk to to share with their ups and their downs their fears and their concerns.
My father was a teacher and there were teachers all around his friends they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
My father's a preacher my mother's a teacher thus I rhyme.
My father followed during most of his life the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.
My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young and my father didn't approve of it so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress my mother was very supportive. She always said to me 'There's no such thing as 'can't.'
I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.
I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.
My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school swim after school.
I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature I just wanted to do something else.
I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
I must have got my detailed obsessive streak from my father who was an English teacher because my mother wasn't like me at all.
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts my father was an evangelist a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland spreading the gospel.
I am indebted to my father for living but to my teacher for living well.
My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
I think that everybody in the world whatever colour or creed has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father uncle cousin or brother everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'
Sometimes because of my success I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong and with the other three I was too weak.
As my father used to tell me the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man a great role model.
My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.
My father was the son of immigrants and he grew up bilingual but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.
May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians the Buddha of the Buddhists the Jehovah of the Jews the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.