Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Rankin

I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.

Hugh Grant

My dad used to have to open the second bottle of wine in the loo in case Mum heard the cork coming out.

Hank Azaria

I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.

Guy Fieri

I'm grateful for my whole family, but my dad is like Obi-Wan Kenobi, Superman, and Evel Knievel all at one time. I can think I have it all figured out, and he'll say, 'But did you look at that side of it?' He shows me just how much more there is than what appears to be.

Guy Fieri

I get a lot of my inspiration from my family, but I never got to meet my dad's dad.

Guy Fieri

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

Derek King

He told us that Dad would kill us before he would let us live with Rick,

He's like my mentor. He helps me a lot. If I have some problems, because my dad lives in Chicago, I go to him. He tells me to stay positive no matter what is going on and to keep my head.

He's like a dad. He worries. And he wants you to do so well. So he makes me work real hard.

He's a pretty boy. The guy is like the Puff Daddy of the gym.

George Best

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

Gena Showalter

He turned, throwing over hi shoulder, ”And if he growls at you, even once, he’s out. He looks wild.” I am, Riley snapped inside her head. Do not laugh, she thought to herself. Her dad paused at the door. “Where does it stay while you’re at school?” It. Nice. “Outside.” “You could be inviting flees into our home, Mary Ann.” No. Laughing. “He’s clean, Dad. I swear. But if I spot a single little bug, I’ll bathe him.” That could prove interesting, Riley said.

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.

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,

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.

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.

The thing that shocks a lot of people is that these kids are just normal kids. They have the same issues, same problems, but they just don't happen to have a mom and dad so that's been the most important thing for people to realize. They're normal kids that just need a home.

John Krasinski

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

I wanted everybody to come out hard for me, Dustin and Brad. In memory of Brad's dad, I wanted to make sure we got this win ... hit them early and hit them hard.

Charlotte McKinney

I wanted to be something and prove to girls in high school, and to my mum and dad, that I could be really... spectacular.

Thank you so much for coming. Dad loved the team and loved his time at Fort Bragg. I'm honored that the team would travel ... to pay their respects to my dad.

Ron Perlman

So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.

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

It was an emotional night, an extraordinary moment, ... I wish Dad was there to touch and feel the stadium, but I think he might be with me now more than ever.

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.