Famous Quotes & Sayings

drew the pistol and shot her dad in the back as he was going down the hallway to the front door.

Father's Day is an interesting holiday because a lot of Dads don't go out and say that this is what they really want.

James Bay

There was a guitar that my uncle owned and never learnt to play. He sold it to my dad, and when I heard 'Layla', that was the tune that really grabbed me. I said to my dad, 'Wait, there's a guitar, right?'

There's a feeling of dependency that's uncomfortable, ... I would imagine for a stay-at-home dad it's even more so.

Penn Jillette

very puritanical parents in western Massachusetts. If my dad stubbed his toe, you might get 'hell' out of him.

Robert Kiyosaki

Rich dad went on to explain that the world was filled with different types of entrepreneurs. There are entrepreneurs who are big and small, rich and poor, honest and crooked, for-profit and not-for-profit, saint and sinner, small town and international, and successes and failures. He said, "The word entrepreneur is a big word and it means different things to different people."

Robert Kiyosaki

My Rich Dad said, 'All of us have the power of choice. I choose to be rich, and I make that choice every day.'

Robert Kiyosaki

In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, 'Your home is not an asset.' Real estate agents sent me hate mail.

Robert Kiyosaki

I would not be well-known if I had just used my gift to make money for me. The moment I started to teach others - you teach people to fish - I think that's why my book Rich Dad, Poor Dad became an international bestseller, and things like this.

Robert Kiyosaki

My Poor Dad Often Said, 'I'd Rather Be Happy Than Rich.' My Rich Dad Said, 'Why Not Be Both?'

Robert Kiyosaki

Direct sales offers the education my rich dad taught: build your own network rather than working for a network.

Robert Kiyosaki

Rich dad has taught me "You can't do it" doesn't necessarily mean "you can't". It more often means "they can't".

Robert Kiyosaki

My rich dad taught me to focus on passive income and spend my time acquiring the assets that provide passive or long term residual income...passive income from capital gains, dividends, residual income from business, rental income from real estate, and royalties.

Pam Ferris

My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me, probably more than I realised.

Pat Burns

The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.

Sebastian Coe

I have always been very good at being able to structure my time. My mother had a huge influence on me. My dad was my coach. He was a hugely influential figure.

Ryan Lochte

My dad was my swim coach growing up, and I tried to get kicked out of practice every day. I was a little devil kid.

Ryan Lochte

I'm very competitive. I remember being 4 years old trying to out-chug my dad in a milk-chugging contest. It's been in my blood.

Eleanor Mondale

As an American I wish my Dad had been elected. Personally I think my life is easier than it would have been in terms of having a career.

As a husband and a dad you want to be there for your family. And when you're not, it makes me feel like a failure.

A week later my dad said: 'Where do you want to go?'

Jen Lancaster

Back in early 1983, my dad was tasked with keeping unions from organizing in his company's distribution centers. His work pulled him away from home for months on end.

Terry Bowden

That's where the great players want to go. Just like Florida State, the thing that scares you with my dad the last two years is top players are gonna stop going there if they don't think they can play for national championships.

Meg White

That's what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they'd have to get new candidates.

That's my given name, F-R-O-S-T-E-E. My mom and dad wanted to name me something unusual.

Alexa Ray Joel

What people don't understand is that my dad isn't up on the contemporary music scene. He's been a legend for decades and he doesn't know what's going on right now, and he doesn't need to.

Francis Coppola

(We) were there with our tongues out over Diane Lane. If it hadn't been for her dad being there, we would have drawn and quartered her.

Bernie Sanders

I went back to a small town in Poland where my dad grew up. It was a very traumatic experience for me as a young man to know that my father's family were killed by Nazis, killed by Hitler. And that left, you know, if not intellectually, at least an emotional part of me which said, God, we have got to do everything we can to end this kind of horrific racism or anti-Semitism. And I have spent much of my life trying to fight that.

You hear about it and then you actually come here and get to see it, that is something that my dad would want to see so I'm taping it for him,

Michael Strahan

I started working out with my father the summer I was 13, which was incredible for our relationship. Those were my summers: working out with my dad, hanging out with my brothers, riding my bike. Pretty simple.

I spy on my dad when he's taking a shower just like everybody else.

Joel Kinnaman

I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic.

I sort of made a deal with myself that if I was going to spend a year on a project, I wanted my kids to see it at the end so they know where Dad has been.