Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dido Armstrong

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

Dido Armstrong

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

Dick Cavett

The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, 'You saved my dad's life.'

Diana Gabaldon

Roger speaking to Brianna: It's too important. You don't forget having a dad." You do remember your father?" No. I remember yours.

Deepak Chopra

My dad said, 'In school, be a Catholic. At home, be a Hindu.' So we did both.

Ed Stoppard

It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.

Eliza Coupe

My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.

Edward Kennedy

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

Bill Nighy

My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.

Benjamin Walker

My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.

Chad Smith

I'm being a dad and a good husband.

Cat Deeley

The only time I ever look good dancing is if I'm next to my dad at a wedding.

Carre Otis

I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.

Aasif Mandvi

I think I discovered my first, you know, my first image of a naked woman was sort of sneaking a peek at one of those magazines that was in my dad's store.

Aasif Mandvi

For my parents it was all about getting a deal, my dad came to America and he heard of this concept of brunch. He didn't quite know what it was. And he thought it was this other meal that existed between breakfast and lunch. He was kind of like - I remember he sort of was like America has so much food that between breakfast and lunch they have to stop and eat again. They have brunch. It was completely legal it was, like, a legal meal that you could have. I mean, clearly it wasn't the only reason he came to America, but I think it certainly sweetened the pot for him.

Alan Shearer

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

Chely Wright

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

Cher Lloyd

My dads my best mate, and he always will be.

Chad Lindberg

I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.

Bob Saget

My humor was kind of from my dad and all the stuff that we went through, which was a lot of death. My humor was an escape.

Bob Saget

Bob Saget was known, in the comedy clubs in those days, as extremely funny but with dark humor. It was always an inside joke among comics, when he got Full House, it was, like, wow, hes playing this all-American dad kind of thing. That was not Bob Saget. His comedic style is definitely more twisted, and he has an edgier side than he showed in Full House.

Bill Maher

I saw this anti-drug commercial that showed a kid smoking pot in his dad`s room with his friend. This kid finds a gun, the gun accidentally goes off and kills his friend. Only in America is the villain in this commercial not guns or bad parenting, but pot.

Bill Watterson

Hey Dad, will you buy me a flame thrower? Of course not. Don't be silly. Even if I didn't use it in the house?

Bill Watterson

Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing - the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn't going out. He says its colder because the earth's orbit is taking us farther from the sun. He says winter will be here soon. Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.

Michael Keaton

I used to work on a survey crew, because my dad was an engineer, but he was also a surveyor.

When I was a kid, my dad kind of forced me to sing the third harmony for our little family group, and I just kind of hated it. I just felt so uncomfortable on stage, too shy.

My mom played 12-string and sang, and my dad could play pretty much any wind instrument and had a great ear for harmony. Soon enough, my sister and I got into music because we were always around it, and people were always listening to it.

Nathalie Kelley

II grew up in Australia, but I'm not from there originally. Like, my dad's South American, so I know what that's like to grow up in a culture that's not your own.

Nell Newman

My dad hates doing PR, so I volunteered to do this for him.

Nell Newman

I grew up shopping from farm stands. Dad taught me how to smell a good cantaloupe and thump a watermelon for ripeness.

Nell Newman

Daddy was like a lot of people who kind of turn their noses up when you say the word 'organic.'

Liam Aiken

Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund.