Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Butler Yeats

The Father and His angelic hierarchy That made the magnitude and glory there Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.

Will Carleton

But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.

Will Arnett

I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day.

Will Arnett

I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.

Wilkie Collins

I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ... the roses get it. I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Yes. One of these days (please God) I shall retire from catching thieves, and try my hand at growing roses.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

Walter Smith

My father was my god. His approval was so valuable to me.

Walter Scott

When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame.

Walter Scott

As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.

I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.

Yogi Berra

If my father was alive to hear that, he'd turn over in his grave.

Winifred Holtby

Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.

Winston Churchill

The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.

Winston Churchill

This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.

William Ruckelshaus

I have no hostility towards men. Some of my best friends are men. I married a man, and my father was a man.

William Robertson Smith

The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.

William Samuel Johnson

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.

William S. Burroughs

The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.

William S. Burroughs

Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.

William Maxwell

My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding.

William J. Brennan

It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them sounds no echoes beyond the chambers in which they die. Such an illusion is ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily confined.

William Jennings Bryan

Nation after nation, when at the zenith of its power, has proclaimed itself invincible because its army could shake the earth with its tread and its ships could fill the seas, but these nations are dead, and we must build upon a different foundation if we would avoid their fate.

Vincente Minnelli

The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else.

Vincente Minnelli

The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.

Vincent D'Onofrio

Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.

Woody Herman

The singing was something I got from my father.

Woody Harrelson

I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little being managed to get around all the obstacles - the gun turrets, the walls, the moats, the sentries - that were wrapped around my heart. My heart at that time needed her ... I think it's the best thing going, parenthood.

Woodrow Wilson

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

Woodrow Wilson

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

Saint Augustine

AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness.... In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son.

Yanni

My father once said, ‘If the whole world wants to go left and you feel like going right, go right. You don’t have to follow. You don’t have to make a big deal about which way you’re going. Just go. It’s very easy.’

Wladimir Klitschko

After Chernobyl, thousands and thousands of people, if not millions, were given a death penalty and had to pay the price, our father among them.

Wislawa Szymborska

I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one of the greatest writers ever, is Mark Twain. Yes, yes, yes. And Whitman, from whom the whole of 20th-century poetry sprung up. Whitman was the origin of things, someone with a completely different outlook. But I think that he's the father of the new wave in the world's poetry which to this very day is hitting the shore.