Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mel Gibson

My dad taught me my faith, and I believe what he taught me. The man never lied to me in his life.

Pink

My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'

Rachel Caine

Is it him?” Dad asked. “Did he get you into trouble?” “Not me,” Shane said. “I’ve just got that kind of face.

Rachel Caine

Shane: "Score," he said, and raised the crowbar in triumph. "Who's your daddy?" - Black Dawn

Pete Seeger

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

Pete Carroll

My dad was a great competitor in his own way. He would never let us win at anything, and we had to work our tails off to beat him.

Pete Carroll

My dad was a good competitor. I know he'd think I was a little off the charts.

Peter Shaffer

The Devil isn’t made by what Mommy says, or what Daddy says. The Devil is there.

Questlove

According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.

Quincy Jones

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

Prince William

I think the last few weeks for me have been just a very different emotional experience. Something I never thought I would feel myself. And I find...a lot of things affect me differently now. As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything.

Mick Mulvaney

My dad told me something long before I was in politics, and when your dad gives you advice every single day, eventually one or two of the things stick in your mind. And he said, don't believe what people say, believe what they do.

Jim Nantz

You know, I'm a total perfectionist, and I labor over trying to get things right. Whether we're putting together an opening for the Masters broadcast or when I was writing with my friend Eli Stillman a book about my dad called 'Always By My Side,' I'm always trying to find a way to do something better.

Emily Mortimer

I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.

Ellie Goulding

Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.

Ellie Goulding

You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

Ellen Hopkins

And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.

Ellen Hopkins

Heart Breaking, I think that if Dad, staring down the sight of a 10mm, would only tell me he loves me, I could easily change my mind... ...but he won't.

Elaine Stritch

I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'

Jimmy Fallon

Father's Day is important because, besides being the day on which we honor Dad, it's the one day of the year that Brookstone does any business.

Jimmy Fallon

...Being a father is the most exciting, amazing thing that ever happened to me.

Joel Osteen

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

Joel Osteen

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

Joel Osteen

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Joe Biden

My Dad sold automobiles as a general manager of a General Motors automobile dealership. He was a job creator. Everyone of those cars he sold he created a job for somebody on the assembly line.

Joe Biden

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

Joe Biden

Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including 'vice president,' that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.

Joe Biden

Everyone thinks because we love cars and our dad was in the business, we love the mechanical end of cars.

Joe Biden

The truth is, my dad was a great driver. I mean, he could handle an automobile. He loved speed. He used to joke that his one regret was he didn't join the volunteer fire service so he could drive the ambulance.

Joan Cusack

I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.

Joan Baez

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

Jimmy Iovine

If you love your dad, it’s tough when he dies. If you don’t like your dad, it’s tough when he dies. Because you lose that guy. Whatever you didn’t get, you miss. And what you did get, you miss.

Jim Thompson

Dad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that science was already too muddled without trying to make it jibe with religion. He said those things, but he also said that science itself could be a religion, that a broad mind was always in danger of becoming narrow.