Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jenson Button

The only time I think about life beyond F1 is when I contemplate becoming a dad. But there's no way that's going to happen while I'm still racing. To be successful in F1 you need to be very selfish in lots of ways and you're away from home for long periods. That's not the kind of father I want to be.

Jeff Lemire

Sometimes at night, when I wake up real late, I can hear my dad talking to God. He whispers, but I still hear him. I even hear him crying sometimes, when God says something sad.

Jim Gaffigan

Twitter allowed me to talk about parenting in short snippets and find out what I really wanted to say about it, which is that I'm a dad who had no idea what he's doing.

Jim Gaffigan

I was the youngest of the six kids, and to make my older siblings laugh, that was very important. I did a great impression of our dad that made them all laugh, so that gave me a lot of power within the family.

Jim Gaffigan

My wife and I, we work together. And we wrote this book, "Dad Is Fat." And in the book, I was encouraged constantly by my editor to be more personal and talk about more personal experiences.

Jim Gaffigan

All I want to do is be a good dad, but I'm pretty bad at it.

Jim Gaffigan

Failing and laughing at your own shortcomings are the hallmarks of a sane parent.

Jennifer Lawrence

When I dance, I look like I'm a dad at a prom. I never grasped my limbs. Ever since puberty I've just kind of felt like we don't understand each other.

Jennifer Lawrence

I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view it as something that I would want to do.

Jennifer Lawrence

I promise you, anybody given the choice of that kind of money or having to make a phone call to tell your dad that something like that has happened, it’s not worth it.

Another factor is maybe the wife would want to step off the fast track if the stay-at-home dad dies, ... Obviously that would be a loss of income for her, too. So insurance could help make up the difference.

Jodi Benson

Ever since the kids were babies, we have treated them with respect. We are the mom and dad for sure, but we look for opportunities for us to sit down and say, 'How are things going for you? Is there anything that we can do as parents to help you? Let's all come up with a solution together.' We work better as a team.

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.

drew the pistol and shot her dad in the back as he was going down the hallway to the front door.

Father's Day is an interesting holiday because a lot of Dads don't go out and say that this is what they really want.

Maisie Williams

Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. And they were all from different litters. It wasn't like they were bred. They were all from different people. And they were all different ages. When I grew up at my dad's house, I think we had seven at one point.

Roberto Alomar

Everything I learned about the game of baseball, I learned from my dad.

Even though my mom and dad were divorced, she was still there, she was still by his side (in the hospital).

Between the four years when you murdered my dad and now ... yeah, I grew a lot.

Dan Hill

Blessed with Mom and Dad's remarkable genes, raised on big words and big, iconoclastic attitudes, Larry and I, before entering kindergarten, knew who we were, what we wanted, and how we would get there.

Everyone talks about how much we love our dad. But they seem to forget how much we loved our mother.

Jim Calhoun

Every Saturday, my dad took me to a football game,

Every game, his dad will be with him.

John Leguizamo

Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.

Judy Johnson

Every family gathering is difficult. My dad has four great-grandchildren he has never seen. I have two twin grandchildren that will never know him. We can tell them about him, but that's all they will have,

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.

Robert Kiyosaki

My Poor Dad Often Said, 'I'd Rather Be Happy Than Rich.' My Rich Dad Said, 'Why Not Be Both?'

Robert Kiyosaki

Direct sales offers the education my rich dad taught: build your own network rather than working for a network.

Robert Kiyosaki

Rich dad has taught me "You can't do it" doesn't necessarily mean "you can't". It more often means "they can't".

Robert Kiyosaki

My rich dad taught me to focus on passive income and spend my time acquiring the assets that provide passive or long term residual income...passive income from capital gains, dividends, residual income from business, rental income from real estate, and royalties.