Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roy Blount, Jr.

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

Rosa Luxemburg

The victory of socialism will not descend like fate from heaven.

Ron Reagan

My father didn't know George W. Bush from Adam.

Ron Reagan

The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he's in now (Alzheimer's Syndrome). Yes, some of the current policies are an extension of the '80s. But the overall thrust of this administration is not my father's - these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don't trust these people.

Ron Reagan

He never stopped wanting to save the world.

Ron Reagan

I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way.

Roland Barthes

Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories? Doesn't every narrative lead back to Oedipus? Isn't storytelling always a way of searching for one's origin, speaking one's conflicts with the Law, entering into the dialectic of tenderness and hatred?

Susan Powter

My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen.

Susan Orlean

Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.

Susan Orlean

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

Sean Lennon

Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane...

Sean Lennon

I'm lucky to have had a father [John Lennon] who paid attention.

Sean Lennon

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.

Sean Lennon

My father was assassinated by an FBI-CIA connection

Sean Hannity

I think my father would give me the Department of the Interior because of my love of the outdoors, so we can get that going.

Sean Hannity

My father used to take off his belt and give me a crack. And I'm all right.

Shreya Ghoshal

I like my father being the boss in my life

Si Robertson

My father, OK, when we first got old enough to hunt, this was his rule: If you shoot it, you come home and eat it. Otherwise you do not shoot it, OK? You don't just kill something for the sake of killing it, OK? If you kill it, you gotta grill it, so to speak.

Shinichi Suzuki

Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is born without talent, there is nothing he can do about it; they simply resign themselves to what they consider to be their fate.

Shelby Steele

A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.

Shannon Hoon

I need to start caring about myself if I'm going to be a proper father.

Seymour Hersh

I don't know whether God talks to him or whether he's trying to undo what his father did. But he believes in the mission. The body bags aren't going to deter him. Public dissent isn't going to deter him. He's going to go ahead. And that's more frightening.

L. Ron Hubbard

I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

Leslie Caron

the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.

Leonard Peltier

What I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people and wants to go home.

Lawrence Eagleburger

My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.

Lawrence Block

If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.