Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emily VanCamp

I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not.

Elvis Costello

My grandfather and my father disagreed about music, not least of all because my dad wanted to improvise. It wasn't just that he wanted to play different music; it was just that he came off the dots.

Jason Wu

I don't collect things per se, but I do pick up things as I go. Like, in my studio I have an old sewing machine from Germany that my dad gave me, and then something else that I got from a friend in India, and a piece of flooring from one of my shows.

Jasper Fforde

He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford

Jason Ritter

A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect me to do sort of what my dad was doing and I am not him so they would be disappointed and I would feel nervous and not know exactly how to do it.

Jason Ritter

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.

Jason Lee

Being a dad, I certainly know what it feels like to give lots of love and understanding, and I also know what it feels like to be antagonized or to have my buttons pushed, at midnight when one of my kids just will not go to sleep. You've gotta just let them be what they are, ultimately.

Hillary Clinton

I'm just grateful my dad never got a contract with Donald Trump, because I don't know what we would have done.

Hillary Clinton

I have met a lot of the people who were stiffed by you and your businesses, Donald [Trump]. I've met dishwashers, painters, architects, glass installers, marble installers, drapery installers, like my dad was, who you refused to pay when they finished the work that you asked them to do.

J. C. Watts

In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.

Isabel Lucas

My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.

Home is where the heart is, and Dad felt home here in Doylestown.

Rory Kinnear

Because my dad died when I was young, and I have a severely disabled sister, I couldn't really push the envelope at home.

His dad was really a special guy. I know his father helped more than a handful of kids.

His dad was hesitant, ... because he didn't want (Carl) to have that dream shattered.

His dad feels really good about Velocity. Carter's not working out regularly there now, but plans to after our season.

His daddy is taking it real, real hard.

His dad died when my dad was in his second year on a football scholarship at the University of Wisconsin,

His dad can't wait to see him, he's so proud of him.

His dad and him, all summer long, are in the gym two or three times a week working on his game. He stays after practice a good half hour to 45 minutes just on his shooting drills alone. He's a kid that's self-motivated, he works hard and everything that's happened for him right now, he deserves. He's worked hard for it.

His looks are very deceiving. His daddy was deceiving, too.

James Blunt

But I think he might be too old for me at 27. I don't think my mum and dad would have that.

Harrison Ford

Henry: Well I'm sorry about your head though, but I thought you were one of them. Indiana: Dad, they come in through the doors.

Hannibal Buress

My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.

Glenn Frey

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

Harry Chapin

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, Little boy blue and the man in the moon. "When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when, But we'll get together then. You know we'll have a good time then.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.

Gwyneth Paltrow

It's the difference between someone who loves you more than anything in the world giving you criticism and getting it from some bitter stranger on the Internet. What my dad said to me was the kind of criticism where I was like, "Oh, my God, I'm on the wrong track." I'm so grateful to him for doing that. He was such a no-nonsense guy in that sense.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I remember when I was maybe 27 years old and kind of at the height of my movie stardom - it was around the time of the Oscar and this and that. I think I was very much believing my own hype, which how could you not? I was sitting with my dad, feeling great about my life and everything that was happening, and he was like, "You know, you're getting a little weird...You're kind of an asshole." And I was like, "What the hell?" I was totally devastated. But it turned out to be basically the best thing that ever happened to me.

Gwyneth Paltrow

My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I asked my Dad once, "How did you and Mum stay married for 33 years?" He said. "Well, we never wanted to get divorced at the same time.

Joe Cocker

I never picked up a guitar as a kid, partly because my dad didn't want the noise in our little back-to-back in Sheffield.

Dhani Harrison

I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices.