Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alanis Morissette

When I was 11 years old and I was on a road trip with my family. I turned to my dad and said, "Do you believe in Adam and Eve?" And he said he didn't think so. I remember that felt like a slap in the face, because if my parents questioned Adam and Eve, then they potentially questioned everything within Catholicism. Eventually that idea led to my feeling liberated, but at that time it was very scary.

Alan Bennett

The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.

Al Jarreau

My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball's grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball's grandfather.

Akon

I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.

Nancy Long

We want them to have moms and dads and normal families.

Chick Corea

My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all through the 40s. He'd started it in the late 20s and 30s. According to the scrapbook, his band was doing quite well around the Boston area. During the Depression they were on radio. It was a jazz-oriented band. He was a trumpet player, and he wrote and arranged for the band. He taught me how to play the piano and read music, and taught me what he knew of standard tunes and so forth. It was a fantastic way to come up in music.

Chief Joseph

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.

China Mieville

My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.

David Mixner

I had old bunk beds that my dad got from Seabrook Farms. They were first used by German prisoners during World War II, who were sent to work the farms during the war. The metal beds with their thin mattresses could easily be used as a jungle gym and I loved them.

Edwin Markham

The thing that is incredible is life itself.

Dionne Warwick

I've had some incredible moments in my life - thus far. I hope a lot more are coming.

Alison Brie

Ted Danson is amazing. He's incredible.

Donald Trump

I'm a big fan of General Douglas MacArthur and General George Patton.We have a few generals that have been so incredible to me. Now we have 200.

Claudia Cardinale

What's incredible is that I'm 75 and still working.

Craig Charles

My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.

David Geffen

It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Anyone ever tell you you're an incredible kisser?

Jorge Luis Borges

It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place.

David Miliband

Everything about my politics has been about the future

Kurt Vonnegut

Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.

Ben Vereen

Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free

Dean Koontz

What has been is no more. Change has come.

Ashleigh Brilliant

What happened to you could have been worse - it could have happened to me.

Artie Shaw

Any more would have been less.

Alexander McCall Smith

Everything has been something before.