Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madeleine Albright

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

Madeleine Albright

The stunning part was that one time Neil McElroy the Secretary of Defense who was the father of one of our classmates spoke and basically at commencement, he told us all that our job after graduation was to get married and have interesting sons...and we all found that hard to believe.

William Shakespeare

Who can control his fate?

William Shakespeare

What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?

William Shakespeare

Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain.

William Shakespeare

O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.

William Shakespeare

Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table.

William Shakespeare

O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!

William Shakespeare

You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him!

William Shakespeare

To you your father should be as a god.

William Shakespeare

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.

William Shakespeare

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.

William Shakespeare

If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.

Nelson Peltz

I understood the power of Heinz since I was a kid, and I started to work for my father selling food to restaurants.

Nell Newman

I used to tell people my father was a plumber, because that would mean we had a normal life.

We don't have any fat asses, ... and we are hard on each other.

We're getting the fat out of the company,

Bob Gunton

As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did study with the Paulist Fathers for two years after high school in full anticipation of becoming a priest.

Bob Gunton

I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.

Chazz Palminteri

My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.'

Chauncey Depew

But the closer we study their lives, and the better we know their deeds, the more profound is our admiration and the greater our reverence for the Pilgrim fathers. Between the drafting of their immortal charter of liberty in the cabin of the Mayflower and the fruition of their principles in the power and majesty of the republic of the United States of to-day is but a span in the records of the word, and yet it is the most important and beneficent chapter in history. To be able to claim descent from them, either by birth or adoption, is to glory in kinship with God's nobility.

Chauncey Depew

If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred charters our fathers triumphantly fought. While wisely rejecting throne and caste and privilege and an Established Church in their new-born state, they adopted the substance of English liberty and the body of English law.

Chauncey Depew

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.

Chelsea Clinton

When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.

Chelsea Clinton

He has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.

Che Guevara

It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory

Chelsea Handler

The only people I owe an apology to are my dead parents. Except my father because he's still alive.

Chelsea Handler

I would never get married while my father is still alive because I wouldn't want him to walk me down the aisle.

Charlotte Rampling

I'd had a French education for three years, my father being in the army. From 9 to 12, I went to French school. I've been sort of part of the culture, part of the geography, since I was quite young - the imprint was there. And I loved it.

Charlton Heston

Maybe it's good if God gives you something to think about every so often.

Charley Reese

Our Founding Fathers were proud that Americans were trusted with arms because they knew that only when people are armed could they truly be thought of as free citizens. And that's where the circle closes. Those who want to deprive you of your right to keep and bear arms are intending to deprive you of your freedom, period. Like the criminals their policies encourage, these elitists know that it is always best to disarm victims before you enslave them.

Charley Pride

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

Charles Lindbergh

Peace is a virgin who dare not show her face without Strength, her father, for protection.