Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Iero

When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.

Christian Bale

My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.

Chris Pine

My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.

George W. Bush

I suspect that had my dad not been president, he'd be asking the same questions: How'd your meeting go with so-and-so? . How did you feel when you stood up in front of the people for the State of the Union Address-state of the budget address, whatever you call it.

George W. Bush

I come from a different generation from my Dad.

George W. Bush

I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists.

George W. Bush

There seems to be a lot of name-calling going on, but I want to remind you what our good dad told me one time. Labels are for soup cans.

Frank Welker

Normally I play dads, good guys, and little animals.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.

Faith Prince

I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.

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.

Mehcad Brooks

I'm from Texas, and my dad was from West Texas. As I was growing up, he'd tell me about the Miners and then he'd say that it just shows that you can do anything if you try hard enough.

Julianne Moore

I moved frequently because my dad was in the army, so I was always new in school. I think if you've ever done that, you know what it means to not matter in a room. I think it's a good experience for everyone to have, to feel like they're not noticed, because it teaches you to be empathetic.

Erykah Badu

[The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck.

Erin O'Connor

For my last meal, I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.

Finn Wittrock

I caught the acting bug from my dad.

Fiona Apple

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

Cassandra Clare

Do you even really know how vampires are made?' 'Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much...

Cassandra Clare

We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids 'Timmy Has Two Dads'. Except I don't think they have one called 'Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil'. That part you're just going to have to work through on your own.

Seth Numrich

Theatre has been a part of my life since before I can remember - my dad is also an actor and a director and a storyteller who lives and works in the Twin Cities; my mom is a nurse practitioner, but she also grew up doing theatre - so, it has always been a part of my experience.

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.

Dad yelled pretty loud at halftime. It was intense.

Jamie Kennedy

Dad was the one that went further, he didn't make the Olympic team, but I think he was trying out for it.

Dad wasn't a one-hit wonder, but he never had another moment like that.

Dad wasn't a daredevil, but he lived his life to the fullest.

Tony Scott

Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her.

Judy Woodruff

Dad was also a deeply unabashedly religious man.

Dad tends to be more low maintenance than Mom,

Henry Garza

Dad started playing when he was 8. I've been playing since I was 4 years old and started writing songs when I was about 5. Same thing with Jojo. He was 5 or 6 when he picked up the guitar.