Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

William Shakespeare

Men at some time are masters of their fates...

William Shakespeare

But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.

Dylan Thomas

Wales is the land of my fathers. And my fathers can have it.

Don Cheadle

I started following the news and seeing what was happening around the world with the polar ice caps melting and temperatures breaking records. I became concerned as an animal on this planet but also as a father.

Dianna Agron

My father was a general manager with Hyatt, so we lived in the hotel so he would be close by if there were any problems. My mum was always adamant about us not abusing it. So I still had to clean my room. Housekeeping would never come and do it.

Dexter Scott King

What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you dont protect it, you lose it.

Dexter Scott King

My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?

Dhani Harrison

Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'

Dhani Harrison

One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.

Dhani Harrison

I was very empty after my father passed away. It was an emotional time, as it would be for anyone, but to be in the studio every day was kind of cathartic and healing and it just seemed very natural to continue.

Dhani Harrison

People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man.

David Alan Grier

My father was a doctor.

David Alan Grier

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

David Almond

Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can’t know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can’t. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

Abraham Lincoln

If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.

Abraham Lincoln

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

Ahmed Zewail

Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people

Alexis de Tocqueville

above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare them for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood...

Alexi Giannoulias

Family businesses that have been around for generations are suddenly closing their doors, and while I'm not comparing my situation or my family's situations to theirs, the fact that my father's business, which has been around for 30 years, might not be around, it gives me a perspective that makes me want to fight even harder for a lot of people.

Alexandre Dumas

Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)

Alexandre Dumas

God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.

Alexandre Dumas

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

Alexandra Kerry

In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.

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.'

Albert Schweitzer

It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

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

Richard G. Scott

Conversion is a very, very important part of what you are doing. We will have a responsibility to report to Heavenly Father regarding those we bring into the Church.

Richard G. Scott

We best serve our Father in Heaven by righteously influencing others and serving them.

Richard G. Scott

Chose to converse with your Father in Heaven often. Make time every day to share your thoughts and feelings with Him.

Richard G. Scott

It really does no good to ask questions that reflect opposition to the will of God. Rather ask, What am I to do? What am I to learn from this experience? What am I to change? Whom am I to help? How can I remember my many blessings in times of trial? Wiling sacrifice of deeply held personal desires in favor of the will of God is very hard to do. Yet, when you pray with real conviction, "Please let me know Thy will" and "May Thy will be done," you are in the strongest position to receive the maximum help from your Heavenly Father.

Richard G. Scott

To exercise faith is to trust that the Lord knows what he is doing with you and that He can accomplish it for your eternal good even though you cannot understand how He can possibly do it...Your Father in Heaven and His Beloved Son love you perfectly.