Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Rossellini

I wanted to make a film about my dad, a sort of love letter, and explain what I understood of his cinema, which was so utopian. I also wanted to give the sense of his cinema, because they have never been very big box-office, but they were very influential.

Robert Osborne

My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working. So I got my stories from films and books. I read a lot, and I love to read to this day.

David Gonzales

Lorenzo thought of his dad as a superhero type. Unstoppable.

August Wilson

Many is the time I looked at my daddy and seen him staring off at his hands. I got a little older I know what he was thinking. He sitting there saying, "I got these big old hands but what I'm gonna do with them?

Richelle Nice

Scott Peterson was Laci's husband, Conner's daddy -- the one person that should have protected them.

Lisa Hall

So Mama would have to sneak out and meet Daddy and go jitterbugging.

Bridget Idtensohn

Mom was the planner. She said, 'We're going to do this, we're going to do that,' and my dad would go along.

Kurt Cobain

Mom hates dad, Dad hates mom, it all makes you feel so sad.

Joey Cheek

Mom and Dad went there and maybe donated a building.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

David Soul

Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools.

James Brewer

We're really lucky we have John Wright playing the father, and he's wonderful.

Alexander the Great

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf.

Dilma Rousseff

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

Al Roker

I've never been part of anything so great as those three kids.

Dave Barry

The nicest Father's Day surprise of all for Dad would be if you handed him a box, and he unwrapped it, and there, inside, sitting on a bed of folded tissue, was the pair of his undershorts that somebody threw away six months ago (without asking Dad) because they had reached the stage where they were 3 percent undershorts and 97 percent holes. Dad misses those undershorts. They were his Faithful Undershorts Companion.

Dave Barry

Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it's so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying gifts for women. This is an area where many men do not have a clue. Exhibit A was my father, who was a very thoughtful man, but who once gave my mother, on their anniversary, the following token of his love, his commitment, and-yes-his passion for her: an electric blanket.

Su Chi

The PRC was harsh in tone but hollow in substance.

Benjamin Franklin

Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.

David Beckham

I thought the first yellow was harsh and the second even harsher,

Don Stark

He speaks out pretty strongly and quickly and some would say harshly on ... what he would see as a sort of giveaway to big business.

Shari Arison

I saw things before they happened, and that scared me very much. The premonitions would always be accompanied by harsh and painful physical sensations.

Ann Andrews

Right now, I see nothing. Just a lot of thick brush, a harsh terrain.

John Stack

For too many years, we only saw pictures like that in a Hollywood movie. Now it's harsh reality, and it's sobering.

Aml Ameen

We as people often subscribe to hope to feel better about our lives, to escape the harsh and sometimes cruel injustices of the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves than with others