Famous Quotes & Sayings

Do you know where he got the idea? ... From a William Saroyan play, 'The Time of Your Life,' that he saw with my mother. Near the end of the play there is a pinball machine that goes off like crazy. Dad couldn't stop thinking about it.

Mark Richt

Any time I can just be dad is a good time,

Ron Perlman

So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.

Tell Dad not to flash the guy to the high post.

Julia Voth

Performing has always been something I wanted to do. My dad had a video camera and I loved being in front of it.

Rick Kaplan

Did we want to show a different Tucker? We did talk about that. But he has been wearing one since he was 6 years old his dad wears one and I think Tucker wearing a regular tie would look silly.

Another factor is maybe the wife would want to step off the fast track if the stay-at-home dad dies, ... Obviously that would be a loss of income for her, too. So insurance could help make up the difference.

Jodi Benson

Ever since the kids were babies, we have treated them with respect. We are the mom and dad for sure, but we look for opportunities for us to sit down and say, 'How are things going for you? Is there anything that we can do as parents to help you? Let's all come up with a solution together.' We work better as a team.

Ever since I was little I wanted to travel, and with my dad being a member of the Rotary, I thought the exchange program was the perfect opportunity.

As soon as Dad got a taste of it, that's all he could think of.

Thirty years ago, on a lark, my dad took a seed from a grapefruit and planted it. I remember seeing it, a little twig sticking out of the ground. Amazingly, it grew. It's tall and huge now. It's turned into a monster.

Holly Hunter

They used to just give them to their own kids. Dad was a big joker when we were young. I found money in my nuts.

David Gallagher

A lot of it has to do with my dad. He was a mechanic my whole life. I grew up with cars. ... I have the utmost respect for American muscle cars.

Brian Wilson

This is a song my dad and I wrote in the late '60s,

Cameron Crowe

The whimsical side of my dad really comes through in this movie.

Laila Ali

It is painful for me because I would love to sit down and talk to my dad about the way he used to be when he was my age, when he was in his prime, because we are so much alike,

It's a dream come true from a dad's standpoint. Every dad wants this for their son.

It really hadn't hit him yet how sick his dad was. He's had a number of strokes and he always ended up going home.

It is what their dads would have wanted. The military doesn't have the resources, so we have to help on the outside.

Even though my mom and dad were divorced, she was still there, she was still by his side (in the hospital).

Between the four years when you murdered my dad and now ... yeah, I grew a lot.

Dan Hill

Blessed with Mom and Dad's remarkable genes, raised on big words and big, iconoclastic attitudes, Larry and I, before entering kindergarten, knew who we were, what we wanted, and how we would get there.

Everyone talks about how much we love our dad. But they seem to forget how much we loved our mother.

Jim Calhoun

Every Saturday, my dad took me to a football game,

Every game, his dad will be with him.

John Leguizamo

Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.

Judy Johnson

Every family gathering is difficult. My dad has four great-grandchildren he has never seen. I have two twin grandchildren that will never know him. We can tell them about him, but that's all they will have,

After all of us kids were grown and moved away, Mom and Daddy moved back to where they grew up. It was home.

After Mom and Dad, I started with the oldest and worked my way down. The youngest ones, sorry, just aren't going to be able to come.

Now I go to the gym every opportunity I get. (I'm there so often), my dad tells me not to go to the gym.

David Rudisha

I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.

Maisie Williams

Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. And they were all from different litters. It wasn't like they were bred. They were all from different people. And they were all different ages. When I grew up at my dad's house, I think we had seven at one point.

Roberto Alomar

Everything I learned about the game of baseball, I learned from my dad.