Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cameron Diaz

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Barbara Mandrell

By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

Aldous Huxley

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Alexander the Great

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

Dan Savage

Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.

Clarence Budington Kelland

Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.

Clarence Budington Kelland

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Corey Feldman

Fatherhood is the most amazing thing that could ever have happened in my life.

Anthony Bourdain

I am very much enjoying the fatherhood phase of my life.

Andrea Bocelli

Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.

Kelly Slater

Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently its the most difficult thing in the world.

Kelly Slater

Fatherhood isn't always a planned thing, but when it happens you just do it. It's very natural and in that sense it's not really difficult.

John le Carre

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.

Tom Sizemore

Fatherhood didnt change me in the beginning very much.

Arnold Schoenberg

Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.

Catherine Keener

I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

Bill Johnson

When you're willing to do what you're unqualified to do, that's what qualifies you.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

Harriet Miers is totally qualified for the Supreme Court of the United States. Her legal background, her absolute leadership in the legal field when she was a practicing lawyer are unqualified.

St. Vincent

I'm unqualified to do anything other than music.

Wendell Berry

The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need to go now and again into places where our work is disallowed, where our hopes and plans have no standing. We need to come into the presence of the unqualified and mysterious formality of Creation.