Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phyllis Diller

My father used to call me the laughing hyena.

Phyllis McGinley

Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat ...

Q'orianka Kilcher

My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.

Queen Latifah

I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.

Placido Domingo

I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

Sean Lennon

Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane...

Sean Lennon

I'm lucky to have had a father [John Lennon] who paid attention.

Sean Lennon

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.

Sean Lennon

My father was assassinated by an FBI-CIA connection

Sean Hannity

I think my father would give me the Department of the Interior because of my love of the outdoors, so we can get that going.

Sean Hannity

My father used to take off his belt and give me a crack. And I'm all right.

Shreya Ghoshal

I like my father being the boss in my life

Si Robertson

My father, OK, when we first got old enough to hunt, this was his rule: If you shoot it, you come home and eat it. Otherwise you do not shoot it, OK? You don't just kill something for the sake of killing it, OK? If you kill it, you gotta grill it, so to speak.

Shannon Hoon

I need to start caring about myself if I'm going to be a proper father.

Seymour Hersh

I don't know whether God talks to him or whether he's trying to undo what his father did. But he believes in the mission. The body bags aren't going to deter him. Public dissent isn't going to deter him. He's going to go ahead. And that's more frightening.

L. Ron Hubbard

I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

Leslie Caron

the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.

Leonard Peltier

What I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people and wants to go home.

Lawrence Eagleburger

My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

When I was a boy I was my father.

Larry Elder

Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that.

Lactantius

Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

Stephanie McMahon

It's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers].

Stephanie McMahon

My father has this expression that you have to be able to look yourself in the eyes in the mirror, you know, and know that you're a good person. If that's true and you feel good about yourself then that's all that matters no matter what other people's perceptions are.

Vanessa Redgrave

How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation fought the Nazis, millions of people gave their lives against the Soviet Union's regime, didn't they? Because of what? Democracy. And what democracy meant. No torture, no camps, no detention forever or without trial, without charges. In solitary confinement. Those techniques which are not just alleged, they have actually been written about by the FBI. I don't think it's being far left - I hope that I'm wrong to consider that it's far left to uphold the rule of law.

Val Kilmer

My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

Uzo Aduba

I loved Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. Its about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

V. S. Naipaul

We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal

V. S. Naipaul

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

Susana Martinez

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

Susan Stroman

My father was very funny, so I grew up with humor in the house. And I was always really attracted to comedies on TV. I was always really attracted to comics.