Quotes

Quote of the day

 “ We are deeply dismayed by today’s announcement from the YMCA that they feel a name change and a rebranding are in order after 166 years. Some things remain iconic and while we admire the organization for the work they do, we still can’t help but wonder Y. “

  — The Village People, in a statement concerning the YMCA’s decision to rename itself “the Y.”

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Stupidest celebrity quotes

Britney Spears
“I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada.”

“I’ve never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don’t like eating fish. And I know that’s very popular out there in Africa.”

Jessica Simpson
“Is this chicken or is this fish? I know it’s tuna but it says ‘chicken by the sea’.”

Tara Reid
“I’m sounding worse than Jessica Simpson right now. She’s looking like a rock scientist.”

Christina Aguilera
“So, where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?”

Alicia Silverstone
“I think that the film ‘Clueless’ was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it’s true lightness.”

Justin Bieber
“German? I don’t know what that means … we don’t say that in America.”

Tyra Banks
“I close my eyes while driving and just sing along. I always open them again in time.”

Donald Trump
“If there is one word to describe Atlantic City, it’s Big Business.”

Axl Rose
“It’s really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people.”

Naomi Campbell
“I look at [modeling] as something I’m doing for black people in general.”

Kanye West
“My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.”

Mariah Carey
“Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean I’d love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.”

Paris Hilton
“What’s Wal-Mart? Do they sell, like wall stuff?”

Brooke Shields
“Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.”

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Meaningful Quotes for Fathers and Fatherhood

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. ~Ruth E. Renkel

It is much easier to become a father than to be one. ~Kent Nerburn

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Mark Twain

Father! – to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: he believed in me. ~Jim Valvano

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard for posterity. ~ Jean Paul Richter

Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what’s in him and what’s been given him. ~Laurence Rockefeller

One father is worth more than a hundred schoolmasters. ~George Herbert

My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection. ~Sigmund Freud

My father always told me, “Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.” ~Jim Fox

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right. ~Bill Cosby

A man’s worth is measured by how he parents his children. What he gives them, what he keeps away from them, the lessons he teaches and the lessons he allows them to learn on their own. ~Lisa Rogers

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s. He’s more particular. ~Robert Frost

It is easy for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. ~Pope John XXIII

Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow. ~Reed Markham

That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all. ~August Strindberg

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them. ~Bertrand Russell

The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get. ~Tim Russert

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn’t teach me everything he knows. ~Al Unser, Jr.

It is a wise father that knows his own child. ~William Shakespeare

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold

Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren’t through being children. ~Cindy Garner

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong. ~Charles Wadsworth

Every dad, if he takes time out of his busy life to reflect upon his fatherhood, can learn ways to become an even better dad. ~Jack Baker

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.” ~Robert Frost


The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, ‘Daddy, I need to ask you something,’ he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan. ~Garrison Keillor


Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. ~Robert Orben


It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller


It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. ~Anne Sexton


A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be. ~Frank A. Clark


The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ~Rev. Theodore Hesburgh


Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. ~Joseph Joubert


Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor


At a time of reproductive freedom for women, fatherhood must be more than a matter of DNA. A man must choose to be a father in the same way that a woman chooses to be a mother. ~Mel Feit


A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez


To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to have a simple livelihood; this is greatest blessing. ~Buddha


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Dog quotes

The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. – Anonymous

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. – Will Rogers

Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. – Ann Landers

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. – Ben Williams

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than they love themselves. – Josh Billings

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. – Andy Rooney

We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It’s the best deal man has ever made. – M. Acklam

Ever wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. – Rita Rudner

Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never bathed a dog. – Franklin P.

If your dog is fat, YOU aren’t getting enough exercise. – Unknown

My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That’s almost $21.00 in dog money. – Joe Weinstein

Ever consider what our dogs must think of us? We come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul – chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth! – Anne Tyler

You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, ‘My goodness, you’re right! I never would’ve thought of that!’ – Dave Barry

Dogs are not our whole life, but they do make our lives whole. – Roger Caras

If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them. – Phil Pastoret

My goal in life is to be as good of a person as my dog already thinks I am. -Tming

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