Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

This was happening at the same time the Indians were losing six of the last seven games, and my dad said, 'Your job isn't so different from being an Indians fan,'

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,

J. Taylor

You have to have a love for the game. I always have. Shoot, my dad was 50 years old and out here playing tackle football with us when I was younger.

Brian Henson

What happened was that because my dad had made 'Sesame Street' and it was a huge hit, everyone said, 'Oh, ('The Muppet Show') is for kids. We don't want something that's feeling extra silly.' It was never intended to be for kids. My dad was a very determined salesman. He always had faith that his work would be successful. He never stopped trying to sell The Muppets.

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.

Vince Vaughn

I've been there a few times, ... I shot a Western there years ago ... and we would have some time to stop and I would go to Tucson. My dad lives out in Phoenix, so I go down to Tucson every now and then. The landscape in Tucson is just beautiful.

Terry Smith

I've been trying to get with my dad to talk with the Washington State Patrol.

I've been fishing ever since I could walk. Me and my dad go out all the time, go fishing. It's just something that I've always been doing.

Deborra-Lee Furness

The kids think we're wacky. Mum and Dad are in showbiz - they don't know any other way. They've grown up travelling all over the world and are getting a worldly education. My son is 12 and he can speak eloquently on religions and cultures.

I'm going to go home and talk with my momma and my daddy and make my decision from there." ()

In all fairness, my dad has helped me forever and he decided that it was time to back off and let someone else do the wrenching.

Kaley Cuoco

I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.

David Lambert

I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of family there, and my mom's first language is Spanish. But growing up in the States, and with my dad being from the States, I'm kind of just like this white kid.

I knew my dad wanted me to be here.

Mamie Gummer

I like the Dodgers because my dad does - wait, no, not the Dodgers. Strike me down! The Yankees. I like the Yankees.

Eric Clapton

I like her music. I think it's good. And well, I think she's pretty ... even though she's older than my mom and dad. And gosh, my dad is like 30.

I like it because my mom and dad can see it back home.

I just want to thank Lori. Our whole family revolves around my dad. Now that he's well, my whole family is going to be stronger. And a lot happier.

I just want to see my dad again. You kind of feel helpless.

It's really interesting what Freddie said at press tour (this summer), ... Desi (Arnaz) unlocked the door, his dad opened it and George kicked it down. Now, I guess, we just have to widen the doorway.

It's my passion. My dad taught me how to do it in the seventh grade and it's something I just love to do.