Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Fuller

I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.

Alexandra Fuller

One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.

Alexandra Adornetto

I believe it stands for 'mother I'd like to...befriend,

Amy Milliron

Mothers risk prosecution every time they go out in public and nurse their children.

David Lucas

Mother nature really stuck with us on this,

Joe Wooden

Mother nature is not cooperating. Things will get worse as the day progresses.

John Humphreys

Mother Nature didn't make slate for the purpose of putting it on a roof. We did. We've taken out all of the vulnerabilities and disadvantages of the natural material.

Anna Lee

Mother, ... if you could stop time, when would you stop it?

Jennifer Johnson

McCauley called his mother and said he had killed someone.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day.

Richard P. Feynman

Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'

Bible Bible

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Bible Bible

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Marcus Aurelius

So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father

Mike Dunne

Mike was the kind of guy who would give the shirt off his back for anyone. He was like a second father to my kids.

Angela Carter

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods

Raj Kapoor

My grandfather was a judge and my grandmother wished that my father Prithviraj Kapoor too would study law and become a judge like her husband.

Stephen Pagliuca

My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work.

Benjamin Franklin

Mr. Lincoln, I believe your grandfather was a farmer in Pennsylvania,

Samuel Butler

One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground

Hong Feng

When I arrive somewhere, I often ask local residents about their ancestry and tales and legends of the area. Enthusiastic villagers could help find the location and offer to lead the way. That helps a lot.

W. S. Gilbert

I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

Gary Lloyd

I got very interested, and I started researching my own ancestors. It's been a passion and a hobby since then.

Jane Austen

. . . she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them.

Larry Neal

I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors.

Diana Quick

I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I've often been cast in exotic roles - Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks.

Raquel Welch

I knew my mother was - well, her ancestry dated back to John Quincy Adams, so she was totally not Latina. She was definitely whatever you call it - white bread, shall we say?