Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carre Otis

My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.

Carol P. Christ

Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.

Carol Leifer

My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become a comedian and a comedy writer, so to say that he's somewhat of a mythic figure in my life would be an understatement.

Carol Leifer

My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it,'

Carol Leifer

My father was a huge influence on me.

Carol Vorderman

My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.

Carlos Mencia

Like my father I, too, was born in Central America - Nebraska.

C. S. Lewis

In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.

C. S. Lewis

Father! Can I box him? Please!

Carol Moseley Braun

I want to rebuild America.

Carlos Mencia

I'll know America is in bad shape when Cubans in Miami get in the water and swim back to Cuba.

Carlos Fuentes

What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.

Willa Ford

We have said we intend to restore automotive profitability in North America by no later than 2008 and we remain committed to deliver on our promise.

Roger Wilkins

We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.

Jeri Ballantine

We have neighbors from South America, the Middle East, India and four or five different Asian countries. It's really a great melting pot, and all the kids play with each other.

Brian Jeroloman

We have so many leaders. We're so prepared. Coach McMahon is the best coach in America. People who have been watching basketball saw they had some bumps in the road, too. There is no doubt in my mind. We're going to succeed.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Whenever we have had a need for a national security or public safety issue, Congress has always followed the recommendations of the White House, regardless of who is in control, giving them the resources to keep America safe and to enforce our laws.

Montel Williams

When you say shock value, the fact that we talk about what happened to a person... we talk about real things, we talk about real issues.

Mike Pence

We have no higher stewardship, no higher calling than to come onto this floor and into this chamber and make the tough decisions.

Gary Condit

When folks start calling my dad a murderer or suggesting my mom and dad had something to do with the disappearance, that's too much, too far, unfair and it's wrong,

Wing Goodale

When it was first installed, you could hear the calling of long-tailed ducks in the background.

Thomas Edward Brown

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

Roberto Benigni

When I was a little boy, I was reading Dante and I was saying to myself 'Bravo, Dante, Bravo.' It's so beautiful, the music, the sound, the meaning. I felt like calling him by phone, like a friend.

David Sedaris

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.

Gabrielle Zevin

I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.

Genderen Stort

We are not calling for an inquiry at this point in time.

Andrew Spence

We are not calling for a blockade, but if oil companies decide they cannot send out lorries while there is a public presence at their site, then that is a matter for them.