Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Ratner

Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

Barbara Mandrell

I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.

Miley Cyrus

Every day after work, my mom and I go shopping. My dad is about to kill me. I say, We need it, daddy!

Miley Cyrus

My dad has never actually grounded me. He always tells my mom to do it. He tells her, "Miley was so bad today, you need to ground her."

Carol Alt

My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds.

January Jones

It’s not witch-crafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!

Livia Landry

There are moments when I am so distraught, I can't function.

Booker T. Washington

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

Billy Corgan

My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.

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.

Alphonsus Liguori

The saved are few, but we must live with the few if we would be saved with the few. O God, too few indeed they are: yet amongst those few I wish to be!

David Platt

But then I realize there is never going to be a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, 'I wish you would have kept more for yourself.' I'm confident that God will take care of me.

Confucius

Do unto others as you wish others do unto you.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

Alice Hoffman

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

Alice Hoffman

He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.

Alice Duer Miller

In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.

Alan Zweibel

Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes to visit.

Amanda Hocking

Yeah, you're probably right," I admitted and slowly pulled myself out from underneath the covers. "You know, I really wish you'd catch onto the fact that I'm always right.