Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Lee

My dad had the idea in 1963. As a promotion, it's been a gold mine ever since.

Domhnall Gleeson

I'd seen my dad on stage, and that was fine, but the real excitement was - that was my dad. Even now, when I see his films, he's always my favourite person in the movie.

Wayne Gretzky

Thankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, 'This is what we're going to do,' and bought an annuity with it.

Tracey Ullman

Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'

Wyclef Jean

I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.

Cheryl Peters

Our 17-year-old has never seen his dad without MS.

John Schneider

I had a working mother. She worked for IBM. My dad lived in another town - not very far away, but another town. So food was - I guess food was my friend.

David Lambert

I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of family there, and my mom's first language is Spanish. But growing up in the States, and with my dad being from the States, I'm kind of just like this white kid.

Bill Harmon

I know why Mom and Dad took Dick first. I'd have done the same damn thing.

Diane Forden

It's got to either be made legal or shut down,

Norman Herren

That machine has sat and hammered away since 1994 with no major repairs, but we've had to repair something every year now for the last few years, so it was time to either get a new baler for $100,000 or try to do some refurbishing.

Lee Cohen

That gives us some time to come up with a plan B - either flying to Nova Scotia, or sailing south.

Kevin Browne

Taxpayers can be victimized at either end of the scale.

Booth Tarkington

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously

Tom White

Swimming is like licorice. You either love it or hate it.

Jon Daniels

It's impossible to quantify David's leadership with the loss of a No. 2 starter. If I had to choose, I wouldn't want to part with either of them.

Rob Gooch

It looked like he got hit in the face by either a knee or a shin guard.

Tom Peterson

It seemed kinda like the time. I thought it was gonna be radical, one way or another. Either he was going to get roofed or he was going to be great.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Ambrose Bierce

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Anna Quindlen

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Amy Tan

My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.

Anthony Anderson

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

Anais Nin

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

Anne Hathaway

I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.

Robert Kiyosaki

My family wasn't rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, 'Err on the side of caution.'

John Vines

The problem is, the security mission goes on here and if we take some out, those that are left are at some risk ? it increases their risk, ... Unfortunately, we're not able at this time ? unless someone is known to have a family member wounded or injured or killed ? we're not in a position to make those adjustments.

Kobe Bryant

We are on a journey, and to put on a show like this for the fans here in L.A. is truly something special. I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an older, young man.

Bobby Jenks

It was like silence, and then the next pitch, 5,000 fans were yelling all at once.

Fernando Torres

The players really like the idea of having a permanent home where the team can feel comfortable, get more support from the fans and where our opponents will feel uncomfortable,

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Amy Weber

I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles.

Alfred Nobel

Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

Alfred Jarry

It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom

Alexander Pope

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

Alexa Chung

Looking effortless takes a lot of effort. When I get new Converse I dedicate some time at home to shoving mud on them so they don't look squeaky clean.

E. L. Konigsburg

Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.

E. O. Wilson

Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life, as a sacred duty, we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved, and on which we completely depend.

Donna Karan

I feel at home most places I go, but my very top of the list are Bali, Italy, and London. Those are like second homes to me.

Mark Cuban

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

Kathy Sierra

Upgrade your user, not your product. Value is less about the stuff and more about the stuff the stuff enables. Don't build better cameras - build better photographers.

Henry Cavill

I prefer more of the modern stuff - just because I can associate with the imagery more.

Nuno Bettencourt

I definitely get affected by new stuff. There's a lot of older influences, but there's also newer stuff too.

Susan Adams

They just don't need stuff like what we've got.

Neill Blomkamp

When I was in my early 20s, I was quite into Japanese animation. It's like the same thing that I end up always saying which is, imagery based stuff is the thing that really gets me.

Nicole Sullivan

I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.

Mitch Hedberg

I don't have a microwave oven, but I do have a clock that occasionally cooks stuff.

Martin Landau

I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop

Mark Bittman

This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.

Debby Ryan

One of the things I love about summer is that you can wear a bikini top and put something over it and it kind of just always looks a little beach-ready, which I think is very fun.

Angie Martinez

I went to night school and summer school, I made that whole year up and I actually graduated on time. Also, I got a part-time job at the radio station.

Zacarias Moussaoui

I knew Mohamed Atta had something to do in this operation. I knew definitely that the White House and World Trade Centre would be hit. I knew it would happen after August. I was told it would happen at the end of the summer.

Ty Simpkins

I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.

William C. Bryant

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night.

William Butler Yeats

That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unaging intellect.

William Butler Yeats

Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.

Wilkie Collins

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.

Walter Winchell

It's a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.

Jane Elliot

My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.