Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jodi Picoult

All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.

Lois Wyse

I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.

James M. Barrie

Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

Frida Kahlo

There is nothing more precious than laughter

Dawn French

I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.

Maurice Sendak

I would infinitely prefer a daughter.

Franz Grillparzer

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

Bill Cosby

My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.

Euripides

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Umberto Eco

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Woody Harrelson

I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little being managed to get around all the obstacles - the gun turrets, the walls, the moats, the sentries - that were wrapped around my heart. My heart at that time needed her ... I think it's the best thing going, parenthood.

Will Arnett

I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.

Steve Young

My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.

Samuel Johnson

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

Wendell Phillips

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Wade Boggs

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

Yehuda Berg

I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.

Joseph Addison

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Carlos Ponce

I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

Chris Duncan

I always felt I had to prove I was worthy. Especially being a first-round (supplemental) pick and having your dad as a coach. I don't want anything ever to be just handed to me.

Phyllis Lehman

He was a good dad and a good provider. He'd do anything for you. He'd give you anything he possibly could.

SuzAnne Miller

He was a wonderful dad and a wonderful man.

Nick Saban

He'd come and visit his dad in the summer,

Bill Scott

He kept telling me he was ready and his dad told me he was ready. After we missed the extra point, I figured enough was enough.

Richelle Nice

There are so many things, so many things. Scott Peterson was Laci's husband, Conner's daddy -- the one person that should have protected them.

Daniel Baldwin

My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.

Steve Hodson

Her mom told her to just take the night off and relax. Her dad said, 'OK, let's go.' So at 11 at night, they went to the gym to shoot so she could straighten out that shot. They're just a really competitive, hard-working family.