Famous Quotes & Sayings

I loved my father so much and couldn't handle what she was doing to him.

I'm sure he knows this, but my father passed away this summer and (Davis is) like a father figure to me. I love him with all my heart, and I'm sure he loves me as well.

Brian Henson

In going forward, I really am doing much the same as my father did. He sort of had a grand scheme that wasn't too specific. Out projects were always innovative.

John Doe

No. It was like father and son ... He is my father.

Never stop dreaming. We didn't. I looked up and saw my mother crying. My father was crying. This is pure joy.

Not having a father is like not having all the pieces to a puzzle... You can still make out what the picture is, but its still incomplete.

Aidan Quinn

I want to do a lot more roles like I did in 'This Is My Father,'

Kaspar Hauser

I want to be a knight, as my father was.

Charles Manson

I started, 'In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit ... '

Patti Smith

It walked up to me and I took off running and went and called my father and said you've got to see this and help me.

I started on timbales. I had a friend who had a little Latin jazz band. His father made the timbales for us, so I learned to play on them.

Don Cheadle

I started following the news and seeing what was happening around the world with the polar ice caps melting and temperatures breaking records. I became concerned as an animal on this planet but also as a father.

Ashley Montagu

Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more than chairman, at most, of the entertainment committee.

Bernie Siegel

I'm sure as an infant, no matter what I looked like, I felt like the most loved kid getting those massages. So I really think that was a big part of my growing and my brain developing. Most of all however, I think it was the love that was given to me unconditionally and I felt that my whole life. It certainly wasn't that my parents always liked what I was doing, even my becoming a doctor, my father preferred I went into business so he could help me, but I wanted to be a doctor.

Bernie Siegel

I grew up with sentiments such as, "Do what will make you happy, troubles are God's redirections that something good will come from, and that material things are to make the world a better place" and the latter came from my father because his father died of tuberculosis when he was twelve. They had no insurance, six kids and a hell of a time surviving.

Bernie Siegel

Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and that sort of thing, because I hear that from so many kids, they often don't know why their father won't spend more time with them.

Duane Michals

I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.

Donny Osmond

Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Donald Miller

It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances. If we get caught, we will be punished. But that doesn't make us good people; it only makes us subdued. Just think about the Congress and Senate and even the president. The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all the power. Everybody is watching everybody else. It is as if the founding fathers knew, intrinsically, that the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse.

Dweezil Zappa

I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing.

Dweezil Zappa

There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Founding Father expressed in words for all to read the ideal of Government based upon the dignity of the individual. That ideal previously had existed only in the hearts and minds of men. They produced the timeless documents upon which the Nation is rounded and has grown great. They, recognizing God as the author of individual fights, declared that the purpose of Government is to secure those rights.

I really honor my father and the other people throughout the times who paved the way, who were all pioneers without realizing what they were doing for future generations.

Johnathon Schaech

In my life, I'm just looking for that life of integrity that my father had. I have a good heart; I'm not a heartbreaker.

Peter Chan

I just love making movies and my father was making movies. He wasn't as successful as he wanted to be so I wanted to make sure I could finish off what he started,

Andrew Martin

If our father would not have been a strict disciplinarian, our house would have been Lord of the Flies .

I owe my father a lot of credit. There were many nights when we were at the track running 40s. We worked hard.

Clarence Day

If you don't go to other men's funerals,' he told Father stiffly, 'they won't go to yours.'

John Kerr

I didn't evacuate because I had a father who was a new amputee,

Indira Gandhi

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

Indira Gandhi

My father was a saint, I'm not.

J. Edgar Hoover

WHAT WE NEED IN AMERICA TODAY IS A VIGOROUS RETURN TO THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS AND A MOST VIGOROUS DEFENSE AGAINST THE MINION OF GODLESSNESS AND ATHEISM.