Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hyde Pierce

I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.

David Hyde Pierce

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

David Duchovny

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

Benedict Cumberbatch

My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad's performance of the book.

Benedict Cumberbatch

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.

Beau Bridges

We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.

Bear Grylls

I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.

Baron Davis

I played with Mike Dunleavy Jr., and we got a great relationship on the Warriors. Knowing him and now knowing his dad, all I know is he's a man of his word. Anything that he's ever said to me has been honest and I respect that.

Barry Bonds

Losing dad (Bobby Bonds) was the worst thing in the world.

Jerramy Stevens

When I looked back, he was scrambling. I knew something was off.

Kenji Johjima

When I left the base, I already knew I was out.

Craig Bellamy

We needed another outside back that we knew could play first grade. We thought we were one short there.

O. Henry

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

Richard Ernst

Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer.

Jake Hutton

Last year was like a different language. This year we all knew what we were doing.

Dan Monson

Last year's team, you didn't know if we were going to win or lose, but you knew we were going to fight. We have some different ways to score now, but do we have the same type of personality?

Cameron Bennerman

Last year you kind of knew what was coming, from whom. But this year, you're not really sure who's going to do what.

Bob Cavanagh

Last year we knew we were going to be on par with the year before. This year we're going to have to make more adjustments and people are going to have to step up.

David Hockney

The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.

Bengie Molina

My dad and my mom had to sacrifice so much, and had to teach us and show us the way of going about things, how to be humble, all those things. They helped us stay on track for what we wanted to do.

Bengie Molina

I think my mom and dad did a great job with that, because we [with brother] never had any competition in baseball. We always tried to help each other.

Ben Stiller

I'm Jewish, but my mom's Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I tried to put as much of myself as possible in Reality Bites, but in terms of my humor, I'm still trying to figure out what my sensibility is. It's a process, really. I don't feel like I have a very clear idea of what I'm supposed to be, or even of how people perceive me, except that I got put into this Generation X file.

Benedict Cumberbatch

The generation now below me were born into a world where if you're a kid with raw talent now, you can roll in and land a lead in a Scorsese film. You don't have to have prove yourself by working up the ranks, doing the classics, and getting the canon under your belt in the way the great Sirs and Dames of mom and dad's generation - the [Ben] Kingsleys and [Helen] Mirrens and [Anthony] Hopkinses and people of that ilk.

Beau Bridges

My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.

Audrey Hepburn

The most important job in life is being a mom.

Arne Duncan

It's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who - all of a sudden - their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were, and that's pretty scary,

Arnold Bennett

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.