Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hilary Duff

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.

Henry Czerny

My dad thought I'd end up in the poorhouse or in doughnut shops with a bag full of reviews.

Helen Fielding

Oh God. valentine's Day tomorrow. Why? Why? Why is (the) entire world geared to make people not involved in romance feel stupid when everyone knows romance does not work anyway. Look at (the) royal family. Look at Mum and Dad.

John Krasinski

I've always loved where my dad came from and the ideals that instilled in me.

Johann Heinrich Lambert

Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.

Joe Wright

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

Joe Torre

When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a friend's house. I connected my dad being there with fear.

Joe Manganiello

Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.

Joe Frazier

When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left.

Eric Shanteau

I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.

Eric Stoltz

My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.

Eric Thomas

You might be smarter, your family might come from privilege, your daddy might own a company, but YOU WILL NOT OUT WORK ME!

Emma Stone

I think I was drawn to comedy originally because when I was really young, by the time I was eight I had seen movies like The Jerk, Animal House, and Planes, Trains & Automobiles with my dad, and I knew them by heart. I loved them and my dad loved them, and we would laugh together, and I would think, 'This is love.' I just wanted to make people feel like that.

John Grogan

Only then did I see. Something was amiss with Patrick's snap-on one piece, or "onesie" as we manly dads like to call it. His chubby thighs, I now realized, were squeezed into the armholes, which were so tight they must have been cutting off his circulation. The collared neck hung between his legs like an udder. Up top, Patrick's head stuck out through the unsnapped crotch, and his arms were lost somewhere in the billowing pant legs. It was quite a look.

Sean Patrick Maloney

Atticus Finch. That's who I want to be when I grow up. He's the greatest guy ever - a good dad, a good lawyer, doing the right thing. And he knows he's not supposed to win, but he's doing it anyway.

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

I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every time my dad would stand up to talk people would applaud... that was pretty cool.

Eleanor Mondale

When you're nearing 35, going, 'Hey Dad, I can't make these payments,' just isn't cool.

Mark Richt

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

Steve Schirripa

People get that dads have a place in the lives of their sons. But you have to be just as present with daughters, maybe even more so. You have to get in there and be part of the game.

Merry Clayton

Oh boy, I grew up hearing Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson, sitting on Mahalia Jackson's lap in my dad's church.

Ashley Bell

After school, my mom would pick me up and I would just go to visit my dad in the recording studio, and I would see him working with Mark Hamill or hear him doing the 'Transformers' or a 'G.I. Joe' or the 'Rugrats.'

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.

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.

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.

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.