I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.
My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.
A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case a suffragette who had never married. After her death he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
After I had the Caesarean I was told I had really strong stomach muscles and so would heal very quickly. And I did. I was up walking about within three hours. Six days after having her I was out shopping and shortly after that I made it to David Walliams' wedding.
To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning not as something to celebrate.
I wanted to take up music so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours I must look her straight in the eyes.
I like not only to be loved but also to be told I am loved.
I love women but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said 'Does he bite?' She said 'No.' And I said 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.
The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl he told me 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said well Maureen I'm on borrowed time.
I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age he wanted to be an Episcopal priest because he so admired his priest a black man from someplace called Haiti.
I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest but when they told me I could never have sex not even on my birthday I changed my mind.
I asked my daughter when she was 16 What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going to be honest Dad most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
Well a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people but I wanted to act.
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him "At my age I don't even buy green bananas."
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him "At my age I don't even buy green bananas."
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
Thomas Jefferson once said 'We should never judge a president by his age only by his works.' And ever since he told me that I stopped worrying.
I want to have children but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well you gotta have a place to park the car.'
My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.
Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'
When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation he offered to touch-up my X-rays.
I told my mom 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said "Miley you are the girl on the cover' and I was like 'I know but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect.
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said well Maureen I'm on borrowed time.