Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karch Kiraly

I thank my dad for my mental longevity and for the fact we played against better competition.

Karch Kiraly

My dad was a really intense competitor and that rubbed off on me. He was loud and vocal on the court, so I let him do all the talking. But I developed a kind of quiet intensity that I knew I had to have to improve and compete with grown men. It took every ounce of focus.

Katharine Isabelle

My roots are Scottish. My dad's parents are from Scotland, and my mum's dad is Scots.

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.

Neil Cavuto

My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.

Ned Vizzini

Dad nods, looks me dead in the eyes; slowly and regretfully, he banishes all the smiling and joking from his face, and for once he's just my dad, watching his son who has fallen so low.

Nathan Myhrvold

Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.'

Martin Freeman

You don't want your children to look at you like you are anything special other than their dad.

Nikki Giovanni

daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and i told him i’m gonna beat out my own rhythm

Nicole Richie

You know, I'm just - I'm really happy for my dad.

Nicole Richie

It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.

Nicola Formichetti

I was born in Japan, so for me, Uniqlo is a family brand. My granny used to wear Uniqlo. And my Italian dad wore Uniqlo. I wore Uniqlo, of course.

Molly Ringwald

My dad has always just had a lot of faith in me as an artist and as a person, and he doesn't really dispense with a lot of advice when it comes to the music. He's taught me a lot over the years, but when I was taking on this project he's really hands-off about that. He just appreciates what I've done and is very supportive, and of course really proud.

Miranda Cosgrove

My dad went to USC and it always had been very important to me and my family.

Paula White

There must be a reason that these bad things happen to me. I must be dysfunctional. So why would my dad leave? Why would he kill himself? Why would I be violated? And when you're 6-years-old, you can't comprehend that. But as you get much older in life, you begin to think what's wrong with me?

Nick Jonas

I got to sing with the Boss, Sting, Pink and John Legend and all of those people. It felt like the pinnacle, and then I got the call. I cried, actually and I called my dad, it was really cool.

Nick Cave

This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or more capable, and he stands there beside him with a sense of pride - he's my dad - and he also, of course, stands beside him because he has nowhere else to go.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

My dad is a loving person. He would never disown me. At some point we will be together again. I love my father, and he loves me.

Mose Allison

My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.

Misha Collins

Meditating takes on a different quality when someone taps you on the shoulder and says, "Dad, why are you sleeping like that?"

Pauly Shore

I kind of was raised at The Comedy Store by comedians. When you see my dad on stage before me and then you see me, you'll see where I got a lot of my stuff.

Peyton Manning

My dad was a class person on and off the field. That's the person I want to be.

Peter Criss

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

Edward Burns

Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.

Hoda Kotb

From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.

Larry Holmes

My dad used to tell me, 'Check the price, son.' Check the price, kids, check the price because there is a price to be paid for whatever you do in life, whether it is good or it is bad. Before you do something, ask yourself is it worth the price you have to pay?

Libba Bray

My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preachers Kids. Be afraid.

Leslie Mann

I remember, as a kid, my dad always told me, "Getting older beats the alternative." Although, now my father actually is the alternative, so I don't know what he would say. He's completely dead.

Jon Lovitz

My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.

Jon Hamm

I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.

Johnny Vegas

I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.

Johnny Vegas

You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.

Johnny Cash

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.