All Quotes

Dad was a great advocate for social justice and a very quiet advocate of the essential Labor values.
‐‐ Joan Kirner

Dad was a passionate sailor, and he taught me.
‐‐ Dorothy Atkinson

Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.
‐‐ Tamsin Greig

Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him - he didn't try to be our best friend.
‐‐ Stephen Mangan

Dad was a very gentle, sweet man.
‐‐ Tony Scott

Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her.
‐‐ Tony Scott

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
‐‐ Bat for Lashes

Dad was certainly a free spirit and had his own ways. He was very proud of my golf achievements but more proud of the person I've turned into. He brought me up to lead a very balanced life.
‐‐ Luke Donald

Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.
‐‐ Mike Myers

Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.
‐‐ Mark Shriver

Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.
‐‐ Jack Osbourne

Dad was synonymous with his charm and wit and grace, and it was sort of the perfect way to go for him.
‐‐ Jennifer Grant

Dad was that one person who, no matter what he did in life, he just took it by storm, and he was so passionate and just really lived in the moment. Whatever the opposite of a procrastinator is, that was him... and I think I kind of inherited a little bit of that.
‐‐ Bindi Irwin

Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of London and was very dynamic, and I understood why my mother fell in love with him.
‐‐ Patsy Kensit

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.
‐‐ Michael Reagan

Dad was the pitching coach, while Mom was the emotional supporter. Her unconditional love was great, and she wanted what was best for me. It was more about what she did than what she said, and she made sure I was the best I could be.
‐‐ Jennie Finch

Dad was very into electronics, robotics and computers, so I was interested in what he was doing.
‐‐ Rhianna Pratchett

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.
‐‐ Conrad Hall

Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.
‐‐ Brian Sandoval

Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu.
‐‐ Jennifer Ellison

Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it up upside down. But I remember learning to sing 'Paper Doll,' the Mills Brothers song - this was during the war - and I remember my dad taking me down to one of those little record booths where you could make spoken letters to send home.
‐‐ Don Everly

Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would supplement all that with whatever we could kill or catch. Whether we'd kill squirrels, deer, duck, or caught catfish or brim, that was what went on the table.
‐‐ Si Robertson

Daddy loves you, but he smacks you, and he can shout at you and smash things, but Daddy still loves you. So when you get into a relationship with someone who does all of that, why would it be unusual?
‐‐ Trisha Goddard

Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.
‐‐ Karen DeCrow

Daddy was like a lot of people who kind of turn their noses up when you say the word 'organic.'
‐‐ Nell Newman

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.
‐‐ Loretta Lynn

Daesh is the enemy of Europe, and Europe cannot live with the idea that the crises that surround it don't have an effect on it.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back.
‐‐ Joe Dante

Daft Punk's 'One More Time' remains one of my favorite 'getting ready to go out tonight' songs.
‐‐ Aslaug Magnusdottir

Daft Punk would not exist if there was no technology.
‐‐ Thomas Bangalter

Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.
‐‐ Danger Mouse

Daggers have such beautiful, functional shapes, and decorating them is an ancient tradition.
‐‐ Jade Jagger

Dahl was my favorite author as a child. When I got older, I discovered his adult stories and fell even more in love with him.
‐‐ Georgina Bloomberg

Dai Greene will be our greatest-ever Welsh athlete.
‐‐ Lynn Davies

Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often, the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians.
‐‐ Ricky Jay

Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

Daily contact with boys who had not been brought up as gently as I worked an immediate and, in some respects, a beneficial change in my character.
‐‐ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Daily fantasy sports is much closer to online poker than it is to traditional fantasy sports.
‐‐ Eric Schneiderman

Daily fantasy sports is neither victimless nor harmless, and it is clear that DraftKings and FanDuel are the leaders of a massive, multi-billion-dollar scheme intended to evade the law and fleece sports fans across the country.
‐‐ Eric Schneiderman

Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with someone 'just doing my job' or the infernal self-checkout machine.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
‐‐ Raoul Vaneigem

Daily life shouldn't be a fashion show all the time.
‐‐ Leighton Meester

Daily repetition matters when a kid is learning to swim. It can be 20 minutes in a lesson or an hour practicing for a couple of weeks.
‐‐ Summer Sanders

Daily vitamins are of no value.
‐‐ Michael Specter

Dairy products are not good for a singer.
‐‐ Ruben Studdard

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.
‐‐ Denzel Washington

Dakota Fanning is my favorite actress.
‐‐ Elle Fanning