Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Knepper

I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television;' it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.

Robert J. Shiller

My father, Benjamin Shiller, told me not to believe in authorities or celebrities - that society tends to imagine them as superhuman. It's good advice. People are snowed by celebrities all the time. In academia people have this idea of achieving stardom - publishing in the best journals, being at the best university, writing on the hot topic everyone else is writing about. But that's what my father told me not to do. He taught me that you have to pursue things that sound right to you.

Robert B. Parker

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

Robert Barry

I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted to. I don't know how. You just learn, you just do it. You just do it.

Rob Mariano

I always thought I would have boys, but as a father, when your kids are born and they're healthy and happy, that's the most important thing.

Rick Yune

Its a rare thing when a father and son can share the same experience. My father and I have seen all 19 Bond films together, two or three times.

Ricky Martin

A lot of people say, 'Wow, you're a single father of twin boys, that's crazy!' Two toddlers can get hectic, but I wouldn't change it for anything. Every day they teach me different things. The love is there. When you have a two-year-old saying every other hour, 'Papi, te amo. Papi, I love you,' it can't get better.

Richard Lugar

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.

Richard Leakey

My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.

Richard Leakey

Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.

Rebecca Stead

Didn't you ever have a father yourself? You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.' So I figured it's because I never had a father that I don't want one now. A person can't miss something she never had.

Richard Ford

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

Richard Gere

I had a friend in the neighborhood whose father had Playboy magazines, and we would go over and look at them. I remember cutting out pictures and hiding them in my room.

Rebecca Hall

I've never been desperate to please my father.

Robert Dallek

One doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave - arm around you, nose to nose. I should admit that he also reminds me of my father, quite an overbearing and narcissistic character. And in some ways, he reminds me of myself. Another workaholic.

Robert Duvall

My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general.

Robert Byrd

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

Robert Carlyle

I owe my father everything.

Roald Dahl

Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long...

Roald Dahl

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

Roald Dahl

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

Richard Rodriguez

I became a writer not because my father was one - my father made false teeth for a living. I became a writer because the Irish nuns who educated me taught me something about bravery with their willingness to give so much to me.

Richard Rodriguez

Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.

Tupac Shakur

Now ain nobody tell us it would be fair no love for my father cause the coward wasn't their" {Tu Pac Shukur}

Tupac Shakur

Take a look at my family, a different father every weekend.

Tupac Shakur

Heavenly Father, I'm a soldier I'm gettin, hotter, cuz the world is gettin' colder.

Trevor McDonald

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

Tracy K. Smith

When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was Word. It took years for my view to harden, To shrink him to human size.

Tracy Chevalier

My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again.

Tracy Morgan

My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.

Sarah Dessen

The basic fact is that no, this isnt ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push,so to speak. -Heidi

Sarah Dessen

Now, now," my father said. "Let's just get the bags." This was typical. My father, the lone male in our estrogen-heavy household, had always dealt with any kind of emotional situation or conflict by doing something concrete and specific. Discussion of cramps and heavy flow at the breakfast table? He was up and out the door to change oil on one of our cars. Coming home in tears for reasons you just didn't want to discuss? He'd go make you a grilled cheese, which he'd probably end up eating. Family crisis brewing in a public place? Bags. Get the bags.

Sarah Dessen

But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.