Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kirk Douglas

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.

Kim Wilde

My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.

Kiki Smith

Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.

Kevin Costner

The kind of love that these young men have and the respect that they have for their fathers, I don't see that as much in America as you see in the Latino community, and it's really something to behold.

Kevin Costner

I was always listening to my father more than anyone. I was always afraid of my father more than anyone. But there's a moment in time where other men in your life can have a huge impact.

Kathleen Robertson

I'm really into antiques. But really into it because of my father, who got me into them in the first place. He's an interior designer and he's really into going to antique shows and getting up really early on Sundays and driving out to these weird little towns north of Hamilton.

Kathleen Turner

I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

Kathleen Hanna

I'm sure if you see things you wrote when you were 19, you cringe. I saw stuff like angry poetry that I wrote when I was mad at my father, or photos I took where I smeared period blood on myself. It's embarrassing.

Karl Malden

My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.

Jules Verne

The wisest man may be a blind father.

Julia Child

My father was in charge of managing the farm.

Jude Law

I never thought I had to forge a family, but it felt the most natural thing that ever happened to me - meeting someone and becoming a father.

Jim Crace

My father had osteomyelitis-his left arm was withered between his elbow and his shoulder ... . But the amputation of a Stone Age man called Leaf, a stoneworker, does not relate to my father at all...

Jess Walter

Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story...your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if we're lucky, our stories join into one, and for awhile, we're less alone.

Jess Walter

What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead?

Jeremy Piven

You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that?

Jeremy Piven

I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.

Jenny Lawson

When I was little, my father used to sell guns and ammo at a sporting goods store, but I always told everyone he was an arms dealer, because it sounded more exciting.

Jencarlos Canela

My career did start in the Spanish language industry, and that's probably because my father is my manager. He pushed my career in the direction he knew best.

Jenna Bush

People ask me if I ever see my father and I say yes, because he puts in the effort. He calls all the time to tell us he's proud of us.

Glenn Beck

You can't convince me that the founding fathers wouldn't allow you to secede.

Gilles Duceppe

My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.

Gilda Radner

It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing--it's another! It's always something.

Paul Harding

There is my father whispering in my ear, Be still still still. And yet you change everything. What was the marsh like, waiting for the storm before you came and kneeled in the water? It was nothing. Watch after you leave the water, now cold and regretful, miles from home, certain of the belt on your backside, the cold shoulder, the extra chores; watch. Watch the water heal itself of your presence--not to repair injury but to offer itself again should you care to risk another strapping [...].

Paul Auster

When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.

Paul Auster

I'm in constant inner dialogue with my father still.

Patrick Henry

The great object is that every man be armed.

Pat Conroy

My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

Pat Conroy

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

Pam Brown

Thank you for being interested. Doesn't sound much but it meant just about everything.

The church's final word is not 'church' but the glory of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of liberty

The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers and the Fathers of the church, knowing meant something different: it meant knowing in wonder. By knowing or perceiving one participates in the life of the other. Here knowing does not transform the counterpart into the property of the knower; the knower does not appropriate what he knows. On the contrary, he is transformed through sympathy, becoming a participant in what he perceives.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all.