Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frances Bean Cobain

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

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I'll back up anything my dad says.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

When I was younger, my dad did want me to be perfect, so that's probably why that's installed in me to this day. I want to be perfect at whatever I do. I can't help it. It's just installed in me.

George McGovern

My dad was a Methodist minister.

George McGovern

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. My dad was a Methodist minister. I went off to war. I have been married to the same woman forever. I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

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.

Elvis Costello

My grandfather and my father disagreed about music, not least of all because my dad wanted to improvise. It wasn't just that he wanted to play different music; it was just that he came off the dots.

Jason Wu

I don't collect things per se, but I do pick up things as I go. Like, in my studio I have an old sewing machine from Germany that my dad gave me, and then something else that I got from a friend in India, and a piece of flooring from one of my shows.

Jasper Fforde

He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford

Jason Ritter

A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect me to do sort of what my dad was doing and I am not him so they would be disappointed and I would feel nervous and not know exactly how to do it.

Jason Ritter

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.

Jason Lee

Being a dad, I certainly know what it feels like to give lots of love and understanding, and I also know what it feels like to be antagonized or to have my buttons pushed, at midnight when one of my kids just will not go to sleep. You've gotta just let them be what they are, ultimately.

Hillary Clinton

I'm just grateful my dad never got a contract with Donald Trump, because I don't know what we would have done.

Hillary Clinton

I have met a lot of the people who were stiffed by you and your businesses, Donald [Trump]. I've met dishwashers, painters, architects, glass installers, marble installers, drapery installers, like my dad was, who you refused to pay when they finished the work that you asked them to do.

Tommy John

You're going to feel good. But no matter how much rehab you do, you can't speed up the healing process. I'd rather a guy come back in 14 months and pitch seven, eight, nine more years than come back in 10 months and get hurt again. You can't mess with mom and dad ? Mother Nature and Father Time. Nature will heal it if you give it time.

Guy Fieri

I'm grateful for my whole family, but my dad is like Obi-Wan Kenobi, Superman, and Evel Knievel all at one time. I can think I have it all figured out, and he'll say, 'But did you look at that side of it?' He shows me just how much more there is than what appears to be.

Guy Fieri

I get a lot of my inspiration from my family, but I never got to meet my dad's dad.

Guy Fieri

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

Grace Gummer

My dads great. Hes an amazing artist. A sculptor. Hes wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we talk about... everything.

Gotye

All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted.

James Denton

When you have kids, it takes the focus off of you. You forget about what clothes you're wearing, or if you went to the gym. It makes you a better person if you do it right.

Cassandra Clare

Do you even really know how vampires are made?' 'Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much...

Cassandra Clare

We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids 'Timmy Has Two Dads'. Except I don't think they have one called 'Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil'. That part you're just going to have to work through on your own.

Aaron Johnson

I'm a dad, and I can tell you it's the most beautiful thing in the world.

I knew my dad wanted me to be here.

Josh Beckett

Pitching is pitching. I've been doing this since I was eight-years-old, playing in my backyard with my dad. The things that work in Double-A will also work in the majors.

Josh Brolin

I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.

Josh Brolin

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

Dan Kennedy

Grandpa was the executive. Dad was... well... not. He was something of the rebel instead.

Homer

I think the saddest day of my life was when I realized I could beat my Dad at most things, and Bart experienced that at the age of four.

Summer Sanders

I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.

Stuart Appleby

If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.

Robbie Lawler

I got a little bit of the Marine mentality from my dad, I guess. You can't but help absorb the culture you're around.