Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clark Blaise

Relative to most people I know, I am comfortable just about anywhere. I went to 20 schools before the 8th grade because my father couldn't hold a job. We moved every six months. I had to adjust.

Leane Ross

Our father was a Finnish man, very reserved. He didn't really talk about feelings.

J. M. Roberts

Our father always said, 'She'll come back to us,'

Bible Bible

O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: / And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.

Edward Egan

Please keep the Holy Father in your prayers,

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Father' is such an arbitary word. Douche bag, on the other hand...

B. F. Skinner

The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that they will be decently provided for. The rest is a day-to-day enjoyment of life. That's the explanation for your Father Divines; people naturally flock to anyone they can trust for the necessities of life... They are the backbone of a community--solid, trust-worthy, essential.

Hal Lebovitz

We never needed for anything, ... My father was a simple man. That's the way he was, and that's the way he lived. And he never lost his sense of humor.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Carrie Brownstein

Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

You have to assess every situation that you're in and you have to decide, is this happening because I'm black? Is this happening because I'm a woman? Or is this happening because this is how it happens?

Chris Crutcher

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

Arthur Ashe

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

Ayn Rand

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

Ayn Rand

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

Dionne Warwick

I refuse to allow prejudice to defeat me.

Brandon Marshall

There's more than just racism. There's ageism and sexism as well.

Dennis Prager

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.