Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Schirripa

People get that dads have a place in the lives of their sons. But you have to be just as present with daughters, maybe even more so. You have to get in there and be part of the game.

Mike Novosel

Thank you so much for coming. Dad loved the team and loved his time at Fort Bragg. I'm honored that the team would travel ... to pay their respects to my dad.

Juan Pablo Galavis

I would want to know if, at 15, if my daughter loves me the way she does right now. And if she's proud of me, just because I want to be a good example for her, and seeing her grow and how much she loves Daddy saying 'Daddy, te quiero mucho,' which means 'I like you a lot,' those are the things that melt my heart.

Janet Jackson

My dad taught us that there's no greater distance than that between first and second place.

Samantha Aldom

Ever since I was little I wanted to travel, and with my dad being a member of the Rotary, I thought the exchange program was the perfect opportunity.

Joss Whedon

My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy.

Jasmine Guinness

I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad's and aunts' toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved those old pedal cars.

Cameron Crowe

Tom and I have a similar sensibility and experience. You know his dad was from Kentucky where I set the film, and so was mine. That's where he died. His mom's really important in his life and so is mine,

Beth Jones

Everyone talks about how much we love our dad. But they seem to forget how much we loved our mother.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Alan Vega

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Denis Diderot

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

Joe Strummer

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.

Robin McKinley

I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?

Dorothy Allison

The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the books in the library, when I just wanted Daddy Glen to love me like the father in Robinson Crusoe. (209)

Doris Lessing

My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.

e. e. cummings

Certainly the most obvious . . . example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere and everywhere, in the guise of the tabloid newspaper. The tabloid newspaper actually means to the typical American of the era what the Bible is popularly supposed to have meant to the typical Pilgrim Father: viz. a very present help in times of trouble, plus a means of keeping out of trouble via harmless, since vicarious, indulgence in the pomps and vanities of this wicked world.

Adam Sandler

Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Damon Lindelof

I always remember liking school.

Diane Ravitch

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

Dikembe Mutombo

I created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation back in 1997 for the purpose of going in and improving the living conditions of my people on the African continent, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo where I came from. Out first mission was to go and build a new hospital. Our next mission was to build a school.

Anton Yelchin

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

Bruce Boxleitner

I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.

Edward Abbey

Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.

Edward Abbey

Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.