Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Bourdain

My daughter always behaved in restaurants. And if she didn't, she's going out. I mean, one of the parents is going to take her outside. Immediately.

Jake is a tremendous kid, the type of kid you'd want your daughter to date. When you see a kid like that, that is the reason you get involved with coaching. He was a wonderful kid to coach.

I would see her and her daughters on the front porch and in the back yard. I was shocked. I was just talking to her. We had gone to the Hometown Flea Market and when we got back everyone was saying your neighbor's dead. It was like being hit by a hammer.

He used to come take my daughter Gina for a ride in his Jeep, and other kids in our neighborhood. His daughter-in-law, Ellen, lived one house down from us.

Michio Kaku

I am a futurist, projecting trends in science into the next decades and century, but ironically my two daughters - one is a neuroscientist and the other is a pastry chef - tell me that my taste in music is positively prehistoric.

John Milton

God so commanded, and left that command/ Sole daughter of his voice; the rest we live / Law to ourselves, our reason is our law.

John Schultz

I was dropping off my daughter and I saw the smoke and called the fire department.

What do I remember the very most? Trying to find my wife and daughters in the melee on the field after the game, and how great it was when I did find them.

Charles Dickens

I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disninterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

For there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.

If it gives one son or daughter the opportunity to say no, then I'm in favor of it.

Gabrielle Giffords

Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.

Debi Mazar

I'm teaching my daughters to be ladies by showing them how to dress appropriately when they leave the house, and how to be thoughtful and polite.

Action Bronson

My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she's dope. She has my musical ear for sure. She sings, and she's beautiful. It's very powerful.

Aaron Schock

Good supporters who have single daughters say, 'Hey, you need to take my daughter out.' And it's awkward.

Anna Kendrick

For every person that says, 'I love your work, and my daughter thinks you're great, and we watch all your movies,' and is very kind, there are 10 more that are like, 'Who are you? What's your name? Are you on 'House of Cards'?'

Harvey Weinstein

It's hard to think of yourself as a brand, especially when I have four daughters who kick my butt early in the morning every day before I go to work.

Orson Scott Card

Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our hands to do for us. Blossom, trees; ripen, fields; be warm for them, suns; be fertile for them, planets: they are our adopted daughters, and they have come home.

You can never get in her head and know what she was thinking when she killed her daughter and know what you were thinking. You don't know what she was thinking when she killed her child.

When my daughter was born, I decided she was most important. It's difficult, but it's possible. It was not possible to leave my daughter at home, because I travel for skiing. She is always with me.

Kurt Vonnegut

I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the other end was the end, and then there was all that middle part, which was the middle.

Lord Byron

There be none of Beauty's daughters / With a magic like thee.

William Shakespeare

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

William Shakespeare

If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger, And let not women's weapons, water drops, Stain my man's cheeks.

William Shakespeare

The Dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her service; Are they inform'd of this?

(I'm here) just so I can learn more, sit down with her and explain it to her better and let her know what can happen to young girls. She's 12 year old; I don't want my daughter disappearing....giving out her information on the internet.

Bill Engvall

God, she's growing up, and I don't know when it happened, man. I used to buy her Minnie Mouse panties and little Winnie the Pooh underwear. I was helping my wife fold cloths. I picked up a pair of skimpy underwear. I looked at my wife and said: When you gonna wear these for me? She goes, I can't. They're your daughter's. Aaahh! No, no, no! There was nothing to them! The how-to-wash tag was the biggest piece of cloth on there.

Bill Cosby

Fatherhood is telling your daughter that Michael Jackson loves all his fans, but has special feelings for the ones who eat broccoli.

Bill Cosby

The problem is that your daughter has given her heart to a 15-year-old boy, and a 15-year-old boy does not yet qualify as a human being.

Bharati Mukherjee

In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future.

C. S. Lewis

Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall.

Cecelia Ahern

Now let me teach you another thing about my daughter. I love her very much but she has the ability to hide as expertly as a sock in a washing machine. No one knows where it goes, just as no one knows where she goes, but at least when she decides to come back, we're all here, waiting for her.

Carl Maria von Weber

The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.