Famous Quotes & Sayings

Origen

If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.

Orlando Bloom

I love it. I hate that word (fatherhood), but I love being a father; it's changed everything in so many ways.

Orlando Bloom

I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.

Orhan Pamuk

And before long , the msuic , the views rushing past the window , my fathers voice and the narrow cobblestone streets all merged into one , and it seemed to me that while we would never find answers to these fundamental questions , it was good for us to ask them anyway . pg. 284

Orhan Pamuk

With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.

Orison Swett Marden

They may well fear fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim: but they who rest on what is have a destiny beyond destiny, and can make mouths of fortune.

Olympia Dukakis

So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.

Olympia Brown

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the molds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

Omar Khayyam

Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate.

Oliver Sacks

There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate - the genetic and neural fate - of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

Olive Schreiner

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Nuno Bettencourt

Great vocal track on "You can't cheat fate."

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.

Michael C. Hall

Dexter's a unique killer in that his father saw his dark impulses, shined a light on them, and told Dexter that he saw them, he accepted them, that Dexter is good and that he is worthy of love. And I think that's what enables him to focus his energies in this unique way.

Michael Cera

My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.

Michael Caine

There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying - "I don't wanna do it. The part's too small." And he sent it back to me, he said, "You shouldn't read the lover. You should read the father."

Michael Caine

My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.

Merry Clayton

My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

Mason Cooley

No one could be the way I remember my father.

Mason Cooley

My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.

Mason Cooley

Rage against the world, if you like, but quietly, or the Guardians will awake.

Mason Cooley

Fortuna likes to find a crowd and follow it.

Mason Cooley

Thought enables us to see Fate coming.

Mason Cooley

The powerless worship Luck and Fate.

Mason Cooley

I seldom remember my father, but I sneeze and rub my nose the way he did. I also love my son with grief and anger, as he did.

Mason Cooley

My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.

Mary Antin

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

Mary Astell

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.

Martin Short

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

Martin Yan

Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.