Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Glenister

My father was a television director, and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry, but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.

Peter Kreeft

It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

Peter Fonda

I dig my father. I wish he could open his eyes and dig me.

Peter Berg

I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.

Paz Vega

My father was a bullfighter.

Phil Collins

I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

Phil Collins

I've been a long-distance father.

Peter Noone

Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time.

Peter O'Toole

When my father would come home from the track after a good day, the whole room would light up; it was fairyland. But when he lost, it was black. In our house, it was always either a wake ... or a wedding.

Peter Jacobson

My first film role was a reporter. It's funny, because my father was a news reporter. I always thought there was something strange about that.

Peter Jennings

The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.

Peter Jackson

I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.

Pete Rose

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

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.

Maggie Stiefvater

Blue was awfully fond of her father, considering she'd never met him.

Maggie Stiefvater

How do you know I wouldn't have just been happy with the truth? I don’t care if my father was a deadbeat named Butternut. It doesn't change anything right now.” “His name wasn't really Butternut, was it?” Gansey asked Adam in a low voice.

Maggie Stiefvater

We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.

Maggie Stiefvater

What a grin he had, what ferocious eyes, what a creature he was. He had dreamt himself an entire life and death. Ronan said, "I want to go back." "Then take it," said his father. "You know how now." And Ronan did. Because Niall Lynch was a forest fire, a rising sea, a car crash, a closing curtain, a blistering symphony, a catalyst with planets inside him. And he had given all of that to his middle son.

Maggie Stiefvater

It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.

Haruki Murakami

My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity--the distinction between the Father who gives and the Gift which is given (the Son), but only in the unity of the Holy Spirit.

Harlan Coben

The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.

Gustave Flaubert

The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

Gustave Flaubert

The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.

Graydon Carter

As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

Greg Behrendt

If my father is walking around going, 'Mmm, pussy,' he's thinking about eating the cat.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who are merely walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.

John Dryden

Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.