Famous Quotes & Sayings

Crystal Bowersox

I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just a favor for her, and my dad's an electrician - just a blue-collar family, and the house was usually falling apart.

James Carroll

I found myself back to the Pentagon...as a protester?and my dad was still inside.

I talked to my dad last night and he said to keep shooting, that the shots were going to fall. I was just listening to my dad.

Carlos Ponce

I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

Imagination is something that sits up with Dad and Mom the first time their teenager stays out late.

Dominic Purcell

I'm a hands-on dad. I love my kids more than anything. It's very important to me. I'd give myself a 10 out of 10 for being a dad.

John Schneider

I'm a good dad and a fair husband, and I work quite a bit.

Mary Badham

I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married.

Jerry Nadeau

I have struggled. If you do racing all of your life, and then all of a sudden it ends, what do you do? Do you go back to school, do you start a business? All we know how to do is race. That's all I've done since my dad put me in a go-kart at 4.

Bernie Siegel

I have learned to become not an M.D. but a 'C.D.' for the wounded people I meet. Yes, a 'Chosen Dad' who may not like their behavior but loves and reparents them and helps them to heal their lives and find self-worth and self-esteem and save their lives.

Ira Sachs

I happened to be staying with my dad and his present 19-year-old girlfriend. So that was really fascinating ? it was a mirror-image kind of experience.

Tamara Ecclestone

If I have 1% of my dad's brain, I'll be happy. He's so quick.

I think Zach is the first to qualify for the state tournament, It was the highest I've ever seen his dad jump. He's not an athlete, but he was up there.

I think you earn what you get out of life. I've always worked hard I was working hard in my dad's cornfields by the time I was seven.

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

Daniel Woodrell

I was born in West Plains, and we lived here till I was one. Then my dad needed to get a job, so we moved to the St. Louis area. I lived in St. Charles, on the Missouri River, till I was 15.

Her mom told her to just take the night off and relax. Her dad said, 'OK, let's go.' So at 11 at night, they went to the gym to shoot so she could straighten out that shot. They're just a really competitive, hard-working family.

If a student knows their parents are looking online, they'll want to do their homework and stay in school because they'll know Mom or Dad will see if they've skipped class.

Shilpa Shetty

If a guy wants to take me out, he must seek my dad's permission first. That's just the way it works.

Bob Parsons

Go Daddy is not just a job; it's a way of life. These people (employees) work hard, and offering great incentives is fun and productive for the company.

Aaron Johnson

I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.

Nick Nolte

When I was a kid, my dad went to World War II. I didn't know him. I was born in '41.

Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.

I always felt I had to prove I was worthy. Especially being a first-round (supplemental) pick and having your dad as a coach. I don't want anything ever to be just handed to me.

He was a good dad and a good provider. He'd do anything for you. He'd give you anything he possibly could.

Russell Tovey

I was so envious of everyone who went to Sylvia Young Theatre School. I wanted to go, but my dad flat-out refused. He thought I'd become some tapdancing freak without qualifications. And he was right in a way. I'm glad I didn't go. That might have changed.

I would say I'm probably tough on her, but I'd say Dad was tough on all of us.

I wish there were 52 of him around. Mom and Dad raised him right.

Robby Albarado

I worked his daddy out of that barn.

Devon Bostick

I guess I figured out my dad was a fight coordinator pretty early, because I always saw him running into walls and stuff and nobody got mad at him, but it took me a lot longer to figure out what Mom did, because it was usually stuff on the telephone.

Rebecca Stead

I grew up mostly an only child. My dad remarried when I was a teenager. And then I had two stepbrothers. And then my dad had a second child. So I have a brother from the time I was 15. But I really grew up feeling like an only child.

John W. Thompson

I grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. My dad took me hunting, trapping and fishing when I was a kid.

I grew up in (trucking). My dad was a trucker and still is. My grandpa was a trucker also.