Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Evans

Mark was like a father figure to me.

Michael Reagan

My mother, father and birth-mother were pro-life and pro-adoption. Because they were, my father made me a Reagan. I've come to honor my father, not to politicize his name.

I wish I had my father to hug yet.

We'd wake up in the morning and there'd be a line of mothers, fathers, grandchildren waiting for us. We knew that we were there to save lives.

Jay Paterno

You just ignore it. You know you're qualified. I know my father in my situation ... he's not going to hand me a job just because of who I am.

We're all happy that he's been found, and the family's going to have a father and a husband again.

Jesse Ventura

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

Jesse Ventura

My father used to always say to me that, you know, if a guy goes out to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, they'll give him 10 years, but a guy can do white-collar crime and steal the money of thousands and he'll get probation and a slap on the wrist.

Jayne Mansfield

My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.

Jay-Z

We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.

Jay-Z

The most amazing feeling I feel Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real Maybe I paint the sky blue My greatest creation was you.

Jay London

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

Jay Leno

Did you see Walker's father? 'My son loves America.' Yeah, like O.J. loved his wife.

Jay Leno

Bush is smart. I don't think that Bush will ever be impeached, 'cause unlike Clinton, Reagan, or even his father, George W. is immune from scandal. Because, if George W. testifies that he had no idea what was going on, wouldn't you believe him?

Carlo Collodi

Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.

Candace Parker

Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.

Candace Bushnell

I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.

Buzz Bissinger

I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.

James Hillman

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

James Earl Jones

I agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet.

James Dobson

When these parenting years have passed, something precious will have flickered and gone out of my life. Thus, I am resolved to enjoy every day that remains in this fathering era.

James Ellroy

When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy.

Jared Kushner

I was raised to work for my father when I was four.

Jared Kushner

My father always told me, 'Don't waste energy worrying about things you can't control. Spend your energy focusing on solutions'.

Janet Fitch

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?

Janet Evanovich

I see you looking at my cookies,' my father said to Morelli. 'Don't even think about it. Go get your own cookies.

Janet Evanovich

My father was in the kitchen putting a new washer in the kitchen faucet. He looked relieved to see Morelli standing in the hallway. He'd probably prefer I bring home someone useful, like a butcher or a car mechanic, but I guess cops are a step up from undertakers.

Euripides

Noble fathers have noble children.

Euripides

For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father.

Ethan Hawke

The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.

Ethan Hawke

I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.

Errol Flynn

My father was never anti-anything in our house.

Ernst Moritz Arndt

Freedom is where you can live, as pleases a brave heart; where you can live according to the customs and laws of your Fathers; where you are made happy by that which made your most distant ancestors happy.