Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexa Ray Joel

What people don't understand is that my dad isn't up on the contemporary music scene. He's been a legend for decades and he doesn't know what's going on right now, and he doesn't need to.

Francis Coppola

(We) were there with our tongues out over Diane Lane. If it hadn't been for her dad being there, we would have drawn and quartered her.

Bernie Sanders

I went back to a small town in Poland where my dad grew up. It was a very traumatic experience for me as a young man to know that my father's family were killed by Nazis, killed by Hitler. And that left, you know, if not intellectually, at least an emotional part of me which said, God, we have got to do everything we can to end this kind of horrific racism or anti-Semitism. And I have spent much of my life trying to fight that.

You hear about it and then you actually come here and get to see it, that is something that my dad would want to see so I'm taping it for him,

J. Taylor

You have to have a love for the game. I always have. Shoot, my dad was 50 years old and out here playing tackle football with us when I was younger.

There is also a thread in the play about what it meant to be a son of a man from that generation. The quiet dad who never said much.

This was happening at the same time the Indians were losing six of the last seven games, and my dad said, 'Your job isn't so different from being an Indians fan,'

Penn Jillette

very puritanical parents in western Massachusetts. If my dad stubbed his toe, you might get 'hell' out of him.

Robert Kiyosaki

Rich dad went on to explain that the world was filled with different types of entrepreneurs. There are entrepreneurs who are big and small, rich and poor, honest and crooked, for-profit and not-for-profit, saint and sinner, small town and international, and successes and failures. He said, "The word entrepreneur is a big word and it means different things to different people."

Robert Kiyosaki

My Rich Dad said, 'All of us have the power of choice. I choose to be rich, and I make that choice every day.'

Robert Kiyosaki

In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, 'Your home is not an asset.' Real estate agents sent me hate mail.

Robert Kiyosaki

I would not be well-known if I had just used my gift to make money for me. The moment I started to teach others - you teach people to fish - I think that's why my book Rich Dad, Poor Dad became an international bestseller, and things like this.

James Bay

There was a guitar that my uncle owned and never learnt to play. He sold it to my dad, and when I heard 'Layla', that was the tune that really grabbed me. I said to my dad, 'Wait, there's a guitar, right?'

There's a feeling of dependency that's uncomfortable, ... I would imagine for a stay-at-home dad it's even more so.

Donald Glover

I'm probably going to get in trouble for this but 'American Dad' is one of my favourite shows. It gets very dark in places but the jokes are there.

Dean Norris

My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.

Debby Boone

I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't.

Danny Pino

I had been on another procedural show, 'Cold Case,' for seven years, and I certainly respected the legacy of 'Law & Order,' even though I had only seen a handful of episodes. Being a dad meant the reality was that I probably knew more about Dora and Diego. But I saw the show with fresh eyes, and I wasn't coming in with a bunch of baggage.

David Cone

I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.

Alice Sebold

Please don't let Daddy die Susie," he whispered. "I need him.

Alice Cooper

I read Dad's books like I did before, now things are crystal clear. Lock the door in the bathroom, now I just can't get caught in here.

Anne Lamott

My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't have that much to do with inspiration. You have to develop the habit of being a certain way with yourself. You do it at the debt of honor.

Ang Lee

I'm just a pretty regular dad.

Bat for Lashes

When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.

Ray Liotta

The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.

Ray Floyd

As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.

Steve Earle

My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.

Tom Hooper

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

Stephen Chbosky

My dad said I did the right thing. I hope I did, but it's hard to tell sometimes.

Thomas Langmann

My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.

Shemar Moore

I don't want to be an old dad.

Rand Paul

I think my dad has helped me tremendously.

Sidney Poitier

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.