Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tanith Lee

I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect slight dyslexic problems. My father, driven mad by this, taught me to read. At 9 I began writing.

Tana French

My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.

Tamara Ecclestone

My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

Tamara Mellon

I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

Tacitus

They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses , with the addition of the name of his father, Laertes , was formerly discovered on the same spot, and that certain monuments and tombs with Greek inscriptions, still exist on the borders of Germany and Rhaetia .

Rosamund Pike

In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them.

Ron Fournier

One of Obama's most impressive attributes is his quiet confidence: Voters sense that he is comfortable in his own skin, a dedicated father and friend who won't waste time with the phony rituals of Washington.

Samantha Shannon

My father thought I would lead a simple life; that I was bright but unambitious, complacant with whatever work life threw at me. My father, as usual, was wrong.

Tupac Shakur

Now ain nobody tell us it would be fair no love for my father cause the coward wasn't their" {Tu Pac Shukur}

Tupac Shakur

Take a look at my family, a different father every weekend.

Tupac Shakur

Heavenly Father, I'm a soldier I'm gettin, hotter, cuz the world is gettin' colder.

Trevor McDonald

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

Tracy K. Smith

When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was Word. It took years for my view to harden, To shrink him to human size.

Tracy Chevalier

My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again.

Tracy Morgan

My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.

Tori Amos

Father Lucifer, you never looked so sane.

Tori Amos

My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.

Tori Amos

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

Tori Amos

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

Vanessa Kerry

I think that standing onstage on January 19th, and my father had just defied all expectations and won Iowa, was by far the most surreal moment.

Vance Havner

Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.

Valentino Garavani

I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.

Ugo Betti

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

Ulrich Beck

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

Richard Dawkins

Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in some alternative sense. If a therapy or treatment is anything more than a placebo, properly conducted double-blind trials, statistically analyzed, will eventually bring it through with flying colours. Many candidates for recognition as orthodox medicines fail the test and are summarily dropped. The alternative label should not (though, alas, it does) provide immunity from the same fate.

Richard Dawkins

Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering.

Roger Ascham

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

Robyn Carr

My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer's.

Robin Williams

My father retired to San Francisco, and I got a chance to know him and be around him. It's always been someplace where everything changed for the better. It's always been a home for me.

Robin Williams

I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college, I said, "My boy's got learnin'!"

Robin Williams

Even evangelicals realize that Pinocchio's father was a carpenter too. That's the old joke.

Robin Williams

Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.'

Robin Green

Ladies and gentlemen, today we're here to honor electricity, the charge that charges everything from those electrons snapping in our brain to our father the sun. What's the sun It's kind of like a brain. Electromagnetic field, solar flares sparking back and forth from those nerve cells. We're all one, folks, giant blobs of electricity, all of us. Positive & negative, electromagnetic fields just circling each other. Positive, negative, north, south, male and female. Looking for that electric moment. Magnet to magnet, opposites attract.