Harvey Fierstein Quotes
My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.
Harvey Fierstein
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I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.
Usher
When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.
Wadada Leo Smith
I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
Xavier Rudd
I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.
Larry Wilcox
My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
S. E. Hinton
My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.
Yvette Clarke
My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.
Gary Kemp
Spandau Ballet
You don't go to someone's father, 'I don't like the redness in your hair'. It's fucking rude. I would never go to her father, 'Oh, I don't like the baldness, maybe you should get a fucking tupee.
Kelly Osbourne
Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.
Sara Willis
I'm ready for the opportunity to speak about things. I've always dreamed about the opportunity to speak about stuff.
Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
She retreated to her own desert, prayed and fought with God there.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.
Harvey Fierstein
