Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicole Ari Parker

I have a real no-nonsense dad who taught me how to be resilient at a very young age.

Nicole Ari Parker

All kids want from their dad is for them to be around - and to show up when they say they're going to show up.

N. T. Wright

I knew that I had to be a preacher. I had to be a minister, which was a puzzle to me because my dad was a businessman. It was a family company and I assumed that I would take it on from him.

Miranda Leek

My dad, we'll be talking about goals for the next year. He's like, 'I think you can be here,' and I look at him like he's cross-eyed, like, 'Are you serious? That's so far out of my reach.' Well, then I always end up achieving it.

Miranda Leek

My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.

Mireille Enos

My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.

Mireille Enos

When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.

Miranda Kerr

I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.

Miranda Kerr

I have a weird sense of humour. My dad's the same. We love watching 'Monty Python' together.

Miranda Kerr

I've always had a burning desire to help people and make a difference in the world. I didn't know how I could do that in modelling when it can be such a fake world. But my dad told me I could make a difference by being true to myself and teaching people what I've learnt about spirituality, health and nutrition.

Milla Jovovich

I love martial-arts movies. I grew up with my dad watching kung-fu theater every Sunday. So it was kind of my thing.

Mike McGavick

My eldest son, Jack, grew up with me as a 'part-time' dad.

Mike Mills

My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.

Johnny Marr

Now, I'm a dad, I'm an adult. I've been solo for 25 years; I've been in other people's groups but I'm solo [in a broader sense]. I stopped comparing myself to other people's maps when I was maybe 24, really. The trajectory that I've gone on is not one that I can compare with anybody else.

John Wooden

I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.

Mario Balotelli

I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I'd like a boy, though. Because they're in charge.

Marilyn Manson

I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.

Marilyn Manson

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

Michael Buble

Who I am is a dad and a family guy. When I look in the mirror and talk to myself, that's what I want to reflect.

Mary Karr

Having a great dad probably permitted me to pal around with guys in a way that some women don't.

Michael Moore

Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My dad's check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems.

Michael Giacchino

When I was nine, I asked my Dad, ‘Can I have your movie camera? That old, wind-up 8-millimeter movie camera that’s in your drawer?’ And he goes, ‘Sure, take it.’ And I took it, and I started making movies with it, and I started being as creative as I could, and never once in my life did my parents ever say, ’ What you’re doing is a waste of time.’ Never….. I know there are kids out there that don’t have that support system. So, if you’re out there and you’re listening, listen to me: If you wanna be creative, get out there and do it. It’s not a waste of time.

Michael Gove

The common fisheries policy unfortunately led to the devastation of fishing in Scotland. My dad had to close his business. As a result something that he been built up by by grandfather and maintained by my dad disappeared. So my dad suffered.

Michael Gove

The first four months of my life were spent in care, before I was adopted by my wonderful parents - my mum and dad - Ernie and Christine. They went on to adopt my sister, who is profoundly deaf, and invested both of us with a love and support that informs everything I do today.

Michael Chiklis

The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

Melvin Burgess

It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar

Michael Josephson

No word makes me happier than the word "daddy" when it's directed to me.

Michael Josephson

Being a father is the most important role I will ever play and if I don't do this well, no other thing I do really matters.

Michael Jordan

My Father... He was there when I didn't understand, he was there when I was wrong, he was there when I cried, he was there when I lied. For some reason my dad was always there, when I needed him the most. His love was never ending. And now that he's gone there is an emptiness in my world, but not in my heart.

Martina McBride

I grew up singing in Kansas. My dad had a band when I was growing up. So I sang in church and school and started singing with his band when I was seven. So I've been singing all my life.

Mark Ronson

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

Mark Ruffalo

My dad sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.'

Luke Pasqualino

I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum's from Naples and my dad's from Sicily, so it comes out little a bit of a cocktail of the Italian language.