Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gia Coppola

If I were to save one possession in a fire, it would have to be my dad's camera, an old, broken Nikon. I always keep it with me - his personal things mean a lot.

Bill Bryson

I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.

Scott Michael Foster

I grew up in Dallas, and my dad works for IBM, so I grew up in the environment of Silicon Prairie.

Joe Cocker

I never picked up a guitar as a kid, partly because my dad didn't want the noise in our little back-to-back in Sheffield.

Dhani Harrison

I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices.

In all fairness, my dad has helped me forever and he decided that it was time to back off and let someone else do the wrenching.

Kaley Cuoco

I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.

David Lambert

I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of family there, and my mom's first language is Spanish. But growing up in the States, and with my dad being from the States, I'm kind of just like this white kid.

I knew my dad wanted me to be here.

Mamie Gummer

I like the Dodgers because my dad does - wait, no, not the Dodgers. Strike me down! The Yankees. I like the Yankees.

Eric Clapton

I like her music. I think it's good. And well, I think she's pretty ... even though she's older than my mom and dad. And gosh, my dad is like 30.

I like it because my mom and dad can see it back home.

Yeardley Smith

I'm no theologian. I don't know who or what God is. All I know is he's more powerful than Mom and Dad put together.

I'm really resentful (of dad) ..., ... .... I suppose he deserved it. No, I couldn't be prouder.

I know why Mom and Dad took Dick first. I'd have done the same damn thing.

Robinson Cano

I learned from my dad, if you make a mistake, don't let it happen again. Just keep your head up and keep playing.

Aaron Johnson

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

I love it. (Basketball is) all I ever do. My dad jokes that it's my one true love.

Jamie McCourt

I loved, loved, loved baseball. I would drag my dad to Orioles games, and I would always keep score." ()

David Keith

I love just lying on the floor at home watching games with my dad. No pressures, just being me.

Matt Kuchar

I love getting up to my folks' house and playing golf with Dad. He's very involved with my off-course ventures, and I talk to him every third day.

The first time my mum and dad went to the theatre was at my drama school in third year.

Neal Shusterman

I'm tired of eating your family's lousy, tasteless recipes," Dad said. "Tasteless recipes? My grandmother's rolling in her grave!" "It's from indigestion.

Natasha Richardson

I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.

Moon Unit Zappa

My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

Mila Kunis

My dad worked - f - k if I know - seven jobs? He painted a house. He would deliver toilets. He drove a cab, delivered pizzas. Whatever he could do, he did.

Mike Mason

And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.

Miguel Indurain

I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.

Jorma Kaukonen

My dad was president of the Finlandia Foundation for a number of years and there was a period of time when he tried to get me in. I'm glad I finally got in.

Jorma Kaukonen

My dad is from Ironwood and the last time I was in Marquette was in 1995 when my dad was still alive. Dad would have loved this. Even though my family is long gone from this area it still feels like home.

Jorge Posada

My dad was the first one who said, 'You're going to end up behind the plate because you've got a very good arm and you're very smart when it comes to calling a game.'

Jordan Spieth

I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me.

Jonny Lang

My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.