Famous Quotes & Sayings

Manfred von Richthofen

As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

Manmohan Singh

The first and foremost priority is to finish the unfinished task which the founding fathers of India set out for us at the time of our independence: to get rid of chronic poverty, ignorance, and disease, which have afflicted millions and millions of our people.

Mahatma Gandhi

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.

Mahatma Gandhi

That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God.

John Adams

Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither is capable of it. There is nothing moral or immoral in the idea of it. The definition of it is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power; it can elect between objects, indifferent in point of morality, neither morally good nor morally evil.

Joe Pesci

My father loved me so much that he did not want me to be a laborer or anything. I dont know if its the right thing to do - push your kids into something and then stay on them until they do it. Let them pick what they want to do.

Jacob Bronowski

Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.

Harvey Keitel

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.

And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.

All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

All you can do is to say three Hail Marys and three Our Fathers and throw the letters in. God will play a larger role in this than a lawyer.

Craig Venter

The gene 'klotho' was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity.

This is a good opportunity, and we're going to do it for us and for our family. My father is so excited.

This is a good step toward reducing artery-clogging fat in french fries, but it doesn't make french fries a health food.

This is all remarkable. Our humble telescopes are determining the fate of the universe.

All I can tell you is, the six of us grew up without a father but got something even better. I can't imagine him doing anything like what they're alleging.

John Dryden

All humane things are subject to decay, And, when fate summons, Monarchs must obey.

a jury we'd like to have sit on our own fate were we ever in such a position.

Elizabeth Smart

Life is a journey for us all. We all face trials. We all have ups and downs. All of us are human. But we are also the masters of our fate. We are the ones who decide how we are going to react to life.

Eric Hoffer

It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.

Eric Hoffer

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

Eric Hoffer

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

Emo Philips

When I was young, my father had a serious heart attack. He survived, but we lost our house and car. Under the Canadian Medicare system, though, we would have kept the house and car and would have just had to pay the inheritance tax.

The Holy Father encountered the Virgin of Guadalupe ... in a special way,

James F. Cooper

It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.

James Cook

All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.

James Black

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

Jake Busey

My father is a man with a great capacity for love and a huge heart, which has led him to be somewhat of a lothario, but at the same time, he's genuine. He's far more loving and kind than I could ever be. As selfish as he is, he is an extremely giving person. He's just 100 percent in every direction.

Jake Owen

There are things I want to do to be a better human being and a better father.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I think also what's interesting is that Maggie [Gyllenhaal] knows how much the choices that I make reflect what's going on in my life. Admittedly, probably, as my sister, and as someone who loves me - like, she can't wait to see become a father.

Jake Gyllenhaal

Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either. It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.