Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilyn Manson

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

Laura Haddock

I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' and being really nervous. My mom was like, 'Laura, don't worry: I've watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.'

Kym Whitley

My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.

Robert Osborne

My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working. So I got my stories from films and books. I read a lot, and I love to read to this day.

Nothing in Dad is mass-produced. I think everything he does, he does because he loves the individual people of the church.

My dad doesn't scare easily, so I sincerely doubt that he's going to stay away any longer than he has to.

P. J. O'Rourke

My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.

Richard LaGravenese

My dad was a presence, of course, but he worked nights a lot, and I would only see him one day a week.

Dolly Wells

My dad was an actor, so he would try and put me off and say, 'Come on, you've got to go to university first.'

Walter Dean Myers

My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.

My dad (Joel Berger) has always told me to make other people look good and that's what I've always tried to do. I've found that if you make other people around you look good, you'll end up looking decent, too.

Jaron Lanier

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.

Bobby Lee

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

I always knew I'd be a teacher because of dad,

James Carroll

I found myself back to the Pentagon...as a protester?and my dad was still inside.

Jeff Foxworthy

When I was a kid, my parents had a 900-pound television on top of a TV tray. My dad's theory was, 'Let him pull it over his head a few times, he'll learn.'

Feisal Abdul Rauf

I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.

Frances Bean Cobain

I would have had a dad. And that would have been an incredible experience.

Frank Welker

Normally I play dads, good guys, and little animals.

Finn Wittrock

I caught the acting bug from my dad.

Gary Oldman

And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.

Isabel Lucas

My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.

Emily VanCamp

I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not.

James Blunt

But I think he might be too old for me at 27. I don't think my mum and dad would have that.

Hannibal Buress

My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.

Jackie Jensen

MOM AND DAD didn't have any injuries from the fire, not even any smoke inhalation.

Cecelia Ahern

I lost my dad. He lost his tomorrows and I lost all the tomorrows with him. You could say that now, I appreciate them when they come. Now, I want to make them the best they can possibly be.

That was special, ... I know what my dad meant to the game.

That was a difficult day but I didn't know what else to do so I went to the interview. My dad knew my plan and he would've been supportive.

Derek King

That was not true, ... My dad never abused me.

That was kind of hard to deal with. Her dad smoked, and, as a journalist, she had worked in an environment where a lot of people smoked.

That's the main thing about him. He's a great dad and great granddad.