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.

Charles Stanley

Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.

Alan Watts

It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?

Al Pacino

Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

Al Lewis

I'm more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?

Akio Morita

To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

What I was saved to is much more important than what I was saved from.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

You cannot study the Bible diligently and earnestly without being struck by an obvious fact-the whole matter of personal holiness is highly important to God!

Chris Carter

I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.

Chris Colfer

Not taking yourself too seriously, that's the important thing.

Dick Cheney

Cheney, Cheney, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide.

Rosette Rugamba

We are actually talking about the genocide as part of our past, but we are doing it in such a way that people can learn something.

Darcey Addo

The kids were really shocked to learn that genocide is still happening.

Chad Stokes

There's a genocide going on and we need to put pressure on Washington D.C.. I think, as young people, we don't realize the power we have.

Catharine MacKinnon

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

Jenny Lewis

What motivates me to go to Washington is that, during World War II, so much of the world stood idly by as the genocide happened.

Elizabeth Smith

It's really important for people to realize that this isn't old news because some people think the genocide had stopped. They're like 'I heard about that in 2003, and it's 2006 now.' It's still happening.

Pope Francis

When I had to say something that I didn't like to Turkey, but of which I was sure, I said it, with the consequences that you all know [Editor's note: a reference to his comments on the Armenian Genocide]. I said these words ... I was sure

Quentin Tarantino

The other thing is even the Jews in the course - even though metaphorically aligning themselves with Indians, and, you know, you have genocide aligning itself with another genocide.