Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Sandler

My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

Adam Sandler

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

Adam Sandler

My name is Adam. My father's name is Adam. Having the same name as your father, it's alright until your voice changes. My friends would always call up, 'Is Adam there?' My father would say, 'This is Adam.' My friends would say, 'Adam, you were so wasted last night.'

My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.

Brandon Lee

I've done my work and I'm happy with it... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different person than he was.

Bill Callahan

James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.

Alexander the Great

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Alexander Skarsgard

My plan was never to be an actor like my father.

Alexander Skarsgard

I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a cowboy hat.

Abigail Spencer

My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.

Abigail Adams

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

Aaron Klug

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

Aaron Neville

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

A. N. Wilson

I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.

Aaron Allston

Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?

Agatha Christie

The past is the father of the present.

Adam Petty

I have patterned myself after my father and God.

Adam Johnson

Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.

Adam Gopnik

Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing. Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.

Alex Pettyfer

Nothing embarrassing, but hopefully I can call myself a gentleman because of my father.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

We all know the personal relationship between Michel Platini and President Blatter. It was like a mentor and protege, or even father and son.

Christopher Stanley

I think in any relationship, even in the healthiest of relationships, we are all parents to each other at times. I think that's a normal, healthy sort of relationship. I think there are times when we're each a mother and a father when we need to be.

Dilma Rousseff

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

Tom Brokaw

I'm the father of three daughters, and they're all highly trained professionals. Two of them are mothers, and the other one wants to be at some point.

David Soul

Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools.

James E. Faust

Each of us is a unique creation of our Heavenly Father. No two of us are completely alike. No one else has exactly the same gifts and talents that we have been given. We should increase those talents and gifts and use them to leverage our uniqueness.

Danielle Steel

I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.

Corrie Ten Boom

We deal with God - who is Love. He isn't a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to what He would like to do for us.

Cornelia Funke

I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up.

Cornelia Funke

He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll save him, Meggie!" he wispered in her ear. "I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending.I swear!

Cornelia Funke

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.