Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rod Stewart

I shouldn't have got married. My dad told me. I was 35 and I got married. He said, 'You're too young to be married'. 'What? I'm 35'. Said, 'You're far too young. You haven't lived yet'. He was right, bless him, thanks, Dad.

Ryan Coogler

I kind of remember when I was young, I used to hang out with my dad sometimes. And I can remember just following him in and out of these domestic situations. Going to the grocery store, we'd go pick up my other brother, or we'd go here, go there.

My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you end up doing baby pictures and weddings.

Magic Johnson

My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs.

Magic Johnson

My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.

You know, everyone likes to talk about when they played for my father. And it's nice to hear that. My dad was a rock. He held our family together. He was unbelievable as a father and a coach. He did it all.

Honeysuckle Weeks

My dad had a small suitcase stuffed with photos, mementoes from wherever he'd traveled as a Royal Navy gunner. Not that he gunned very much, as it turned out. I'd haul it out and go through it time and time again.

Jelena Jankovic

I wasn't even playing tennis (when I first saw Seles). I was always watching (Seles) on TV with my dad and I decided to play tennis not because I wanted to be a professional player, but because my parents wanted me to get involved in something so I wouldn't be running around the streets in Serbia.

I wasn't thinking so much about the hurricane. I was thinking about them. I was worried about all my kids getting out. They listened to their dad this one time.

Michael Keaton

I was a really involved dad - not because I'm such a wonderful person. I like being a dad.

Why? Why would they just take my daddy away from me? That would be my question; why?

Henry Garza

Who knew that he was gonna be a drummer? We just freaked out. It's weird, and it's a blessing. ... He was the hyper guy of the family, and the baby, too. My dad said he needed ... something to use all that energy. The first 30 minutes he started playing, we knew it was meant to be.

You look and look and look and can't find him. Nothing...we need to find our dad, whether he's dead at this time.

Kent Mercker

We had a lot of young players. He was like your dad. When he raised his voice, you listened. He was a leader on and off the field. He's the one guy that stands out to me.

We have a house up there. We love going up there. My dad skis but my mom does not. We have two dogs and she likes taking them for walks in Vermont. We like it up there.

Rainn Wilson

The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.

You always want to be like your dad when you grow up.

Hannah Storm

It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.

Marvin Sapp

My father was a singer. So it just kind of happened that one Sunday while my dad was singing, I just walked out and stood next to him, and I started singing the song that he was leading, and I sang it in perfect pitch.

Jay Asher

I tried getting my dad to buy me a beeper for my birthday,” he says, “but he thinks only doctors and drug dealers need them.

Robert Kiyosaki

When my book 'Rich Dad's Prophecy' was released in 2002, most financial newspapers and magazines trashed it because I discussed a looming stock market crash.

Robert Kiyosaki

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a 'have-not,' but I knew that I wasn't.

Mitt Romney

I love my dad. It's fair to say that I probably would not have thought of politics had I not seen my mom and dad involved in politics.

Vicky McClure

Oh, I love Nottingham. I know some people go, 'Oh God, there's not much going off there,' but I like staying in and going round to my mum and dad's for a Sunday roast.

Vicki Lawrence

I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.

Bat for Lashes

When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.

Soledad O'Brien

I'm black. I'm Latina. My mom is Cuban. Afro-Cuban. My dad is white and Australian.

Nothing in Dad is mass-produced. I think everything he does, he does because he loves the individual people of the church.

Megan Fox

My dad used to hunt ducks, and my mom would put them in the pot. We lived really modestly. We had very little money.

Pablo Schreiber

I'm a dad and a husband, and so the things that I love to do are all geared around my family.

Miley Cyrus

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.

Pete Wentz

I think you need something to take care of in order to figure out who you are as a person, and in that way, being a dad has levelled me out more than anything. You've just got to be good for that person no matter what's going on in your head that day.

Peter Jackson

What I think is remarkable about my mum and dad is they had no interest in films, really. None.