Famous Quotes & Sayings

Youssou N'Dour

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

Wendell Phillips

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

Wendell Phillips

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Wendell Berry

If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see how even divine omnipotence might by the force of its own love be swayed down to the world? ...how it might, because it could know its own creatures only by compassion, put on mortal flesh, become a man, and walk among us, assume our nature and our fate, suffer our faults and our death?

Walter Matthau

You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.

Walter Russell Mead

The historian assesses that the investment of the wealthy classes in the Bank of England wedded them to the fate of the nation as a whole and to the maintenance of its stability.

Walter Mosley

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.

Walter Mosley

My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.

Walter Mosley

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'

Wade Boggs

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

Willa Cather

Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.

Willa Cather

Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.

Will Smith

The desire to be a good father is really innate. There aren't a lot of movies that depict that relationship because men, we have to pretend that we're not that emotional about it.

Will Smith

There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?

Warren Christopher

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.

Wayne Dyer

This is called synchronicity - a state in which you almost feel as if you are in a collaborative arrangement with fate.

Virginia Woolf

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

Wernher von Braun

Although I know of no reference to Christ ever commenting on scientific work, I do know that He said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Thus I am certain that, were He among us today, Christ would encourage scientific research as modern man's most noble striving to comprehend and admire His Father's handiwork. The universe as revealed through scientific inquiry is the living witness that God has indeed been at work.

Wallace Stegner

Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people’s opinions, even a father’s, keep him from writing.

Wallace Stevens

The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, can defend Against itself. At its mercy, we depend Upon it.

Samuel Beckett

Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us!

Samuel Butler

Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate.

Salman Rushdie

All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out of the treasured mementoes and old photographs, until even their owners fail to recognize them, because it is the fate of migrants to be stripped of history, to stand naked amidst the scorn of strangers upon whom they see rich clothing, the brocades of continuity and the eyebrows of belonging..

Salman Rushdie

One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.

Salman Rushdie

Islam doesn't have to mean blind faith. It can mean what it always meant in your family, a culture, a civilization, as open-minded as your grandfather was, as delightedly disputatious as your father was.... Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying word, I urged myself; remember when it meant family.

Salman Rushdie

I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

Salman Rushdie

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

Salman Rushdie

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

Ryan Ross

Success has many fathers, failure many sons.

Ryan Phillippe

Being a father is the greatest achievement and the most important thing about me. I have two great kids, no question.

Ryan Reynolds

I learned discipline from my father. Not in terms of corporal punishment, but being determined in whatever you do, and sticking with it.

Ryan Reynolds

I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.

Ryan Reynolds

My father was swallowed alive by his own anus. It was a terrible way to go.