Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cam Newton

My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.

Slash

My dad is a huge rock n' roll lead guitar fan.

My stage name is actually my nickname given to me by my dad when I was a baby.

Brandon Lee

I'd like to be able to show 'Rapid Fire' to my dad. I'm that proud of what we've accomplished within the framework of the action-adventure formula.

Greg Wise

I don't have any labels for myself, really. Sometimes, when I am out with my wife, I am just Mr. Thompson. Or at my daughter's school, I'm Gaia's dad. I don't think of myself as Greg Wise, actor.

Tom Vilsack

There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child's first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school.

Tracy Morgan

My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me, he was still a rock star.

Terence

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

Sherri Shepherd

As the oldest I was a daddy's girl and loved him with all my heart. My daddy had holes in his shoes so that he could pay for my photography classes, you know what I mean.

Ted King

I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. The first time I listened to jazz, he gave me a Thelonious Monk record. It was so different from anything I had ever heard. It took me a while to understand it, and I liked that. I liked the fact that it wasn't immediately palatable.

Timothy Simons

My dad was a photographer, so we had all these studio portraits of us.

Tyler, The Creator

Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids... I didn't have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that's what I gravitated to.

William Shakespeare

To you your father should be as a god; One that composed your beauties, yea, and one To whom you are but as a form in wax, By him imprinted, and within his power To leave the figure or disfigure it.

Suresh Raina

I like to keep most of my bats. I think I have about 250 bats, including my first - which cost Rs 2000 - a gift from my dad in 1998, when I moved to the hostel.

Isaac Brock

The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.

Elizabeth Warren

I think I grew up with a profound sense of watching people who were good people, who were smart people, who were hardworking people - God, nobody on this Earth worked harder than my mom and dad - and they had very little.

Miranda Otto

Yeah, Dad can go and write a script, but if I did something else, I'd produce.

We're everywhere. My dad has had such an influence on all of us.

Willie Robertson

I think Dad didn't really treat us like children; he treated us more like little adults. We were good kids.

Sam Shepard

My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.

Billy Crystal

My dad, Jack, had a great sense of humour and had a strong impact on me and my humour.

Anna Chlumsky

When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them with stuff they don't need yet.

Apolo Ohno

My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.

Chris Hillman

My dad founded the 'Rancho Santa Fe Times' and won a lot of journalism awards.

Charlie Puth

Marvin Gaye is an inspiration to me. He was one of the first Motown musicians that my mom and dad introduced me to, and I always thought it would be a good idea if I was ever an artist, and now I am, to make a record called 'Marvin Gaye.'

Catherine Tate

My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures in my life, really. I had my godfather, but he's more like a grandfather, so I was quite sheltered. I've never tried to find my father.

Dwyane Wade

Unless you sit down and talk to your dad and say, 'Why weren't you there?' and he says, 'I'm going to really tell you the truth,' then you won't know.

Louise Brown

When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down.

Kid Cudi

These things were happening in my life where I was like, 'Man, I wish my pops was here to see this.' I never had those thoughts before fame, when my life was just a regular life. I wasn't saying, 'I wish my dad could be around and see me working at Applebee's.'

Those were the days when dads didn't get involved and our dad was involved.

Oscar Isaac

My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.

Ray Liotta

My dad said, 'Go to college and take whatever you want.' So, I went to the University of Miami. When I got up to the line at registration, I saw that you had to take math and history. I said, 'There's no way I'm taking math and history.' And right next to it was the line for the drama department.

Sean Maher

When my daughter was born, I was a stay-at-home dad for the first two years.