Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaac Brock

The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.

Elizabeth Warren

I think I grew up with a profound sense of watching people who were good people, who were smart people, who were hardworking people - God, nobody on this Earth worked harder than my mom and dad - and they had very little.

Amy Adams

My dad is a singer. He used to sing in nightclubs, or pizza joints.

Brendon Urie

I haven't mowed a lawn in quite a while, but I remember hating that when I was growing up. To please Dad, you have to get it right, and that's the thing. You have to please Dad.

Brandon Flowers

My dad was a produce man. He worked in grocery stores for 35 years. My mom just babysat kids and raised us. I have four sisters and one brother. I'm the baby.

Brandon Flowers

My dad is a big dreamer, so I got that from him. Golf was my main thing when I was a teenager, and that's what I wanted to do.

Bill Hader

My mom, dad, grandparents, we all do voices.

Bill Hader

My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like Frank Zappa.

Bat for Lashes

My dad was a Muslim and would pray five times a day. I would pray with him as much as I could, in the morning before school. Sometimes he would tell us moralistic tales about genies, magic carpets and wondrous lands. My mother is not religious - she's just English.

Don Rickles

I was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child.

C. S. Lewis

No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.

Carrie Vaughn

One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.

Carrie Fisher

He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.

Carrie Fisher

My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.

Carl Reiner

My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.

Bill Bryson

As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?

Bill Bryson

Every kid I knew had a father with a little stash of men's magazines which the father thought was secret and which the kid knew all about.

Brian Noble

That would be a dream ticket. Bradford are a champion team. Hopefully we can create something similar here.

Robert Nebeker

That was a great win. Paz was a league champion last year.

Claudio Cacapa

We know the Champions League remains a very difficult competition. But given the make-up of the group, it's possible for Lyon to figure in the top two and qualify for the quarter-finals.

Joan Laporta

We have to work to try and win the league as soon as possible and concentrate on the Champions League. We want to reach the final in Paris and win it.

Rebecca MacKinnon

If multi-stakeholder Internet governance is to survive an endless series of challenges, its champions must commit to serving the interests and protecting the rights of all Internet users around the world, particularly those in developing countries where Internet use is growing fastest.

Randall Kennedy

I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.

Mark Ritter

We have a lot of respect for Waukesha South. They're the conference champions and they've had a great season. But right now, we're going to sleep on this win for a day and then get back to work on Wednesday.

Olli Jokinen

We have to learn from this. They showed why they were the Stanley Cup Champions two years ago. Good teams never quit.

Pancho Gonzales

The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.