Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Hyland

You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney!

Sarah Dessen

Like so many before them, they didn't care that my dad was only the messenger. They still wanted to shoot him.

Rod Stewart

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

Rod Stewart

My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.

Rod Stewart

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

Robin McKinley

I didn’t want to know that the monster that lived under your bed when you were a kid not only really is there but used to have a few beers with your dad.

Sasha Grey

My dad is really just lazy. He has nothing, I feel, to offer this world.

Sarah Mlynowski

Dad? Um, listen. I have kind of a crazy story for you....

Sanjeev Bhaskar

I have issues with inheritance tax, particularly coming from a migrant family. My dad has worked incredibly hard all his life, so it seems odd to me that someone who has gone through that experience and has managed to save then gets taxed for dying.

Samuel West

I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.

Will Smith

I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect Day" on tv.

Wayne Rooney

Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.

Ryan Reynolds

When your dad's a cop, calling 911 is really just like calling Dad at work.

Wesley Snipes

I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material!

W. P. Kinsella

My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.

Wayne Gretzky

Thankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, 'This is what we're going to do,' and bought an annuity with it.

Robert Moog

To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.

Robert Knepper

I grew up with a dad who hated television, so we had to sneak television. It got ingrained in my head to never follow a show that religiously.

Ricky Hatton

Dad's tiny - his passport picture is a full-length shot. He looks like he just hopped off a key ring. Mum is a different matter, she's a bit of a handful to say the least. I love her more than anyone on this Earth. But she's a monster.

Rebecca Mader

I'm just naturally quite toned. My dad was like a body builder, so I've got my dad's body. Not all of it, thank God.

Richard Russo

My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.

Richard Russo

If you paid me for work," continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food in his beard, "I wouldn't have to feel worthless. There's not law says old people have to feel worthless all the while, you know. You paid me, I'd have some dignity." Now it was Mile's turn to nod and smile agreeably. "I think the dignity ship set sail a long time ago, Dad.

Rebecca Hall

Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, 'You know what: my dad's a really, really famous theatre director,' because nobody has any idea.

Robert Carlyle

My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.

Trey Parker

My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.

Tracy Morgan

I deal with my sons like young men. If they have a problem with something, they come to me. I am the type of dad that will drop everything I am doing for them, and always tell them to talk to me about it.

Tori Amos

I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.

Venus Williams

I'm always on the court with my dad.

Vera Farmiga

My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.

Vanessa Kerry

I think my dad is this great, wonderful... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things he believes in and is serious in what he wants to see happen and serious in helping people.

Vanessa Kerry

I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

Robinson Cano

My dad is my hitting coach. When I need help, I go to him.

Robert Redford

I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.