Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

Samuel Johnson

Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood.

Samuel Johnson

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

Samuel Johnson

Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.

Samuel Johnson

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

Sam Trammell

Being a father is just wonderful.

Samantha Bond

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

Sam Brownback

You can look at founding father Alexander Hamilton nevertheless assuring - assuring - the countrymen in Federalist 78 that the role of the federal courts under the proposed Constitution would be limited.

Sam Altman

The natural state of a start-up is to die; most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate.

Sade Adu

My father was a very difficult man.

Sadie Jones

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

Sachin Tendulkar

I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.

Sachin Tendulkar

Even my father's name is Sachin Tendulkar.

Ryan Giggs

A lot of people don't know that my father is black

Rufus Wainwright

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

Ronald Reagan

I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers... Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them for ourselves.

Robert Jordan

Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.

Robert Jarvik

I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.

Robert Hunter

Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

Robert Southey

"You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."

For Father's Day, my kids always give me a bottle of cologne called English Leather. It's appropriate! To them I always smell like a wallet.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please

Robert Louis Stevenson

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

Robert Farrar Capon

... the divine knowing - what the Father knows, and what the Word says in response to that knowing, and what the Spirit broods upon under the speaking of the Word - all that eternal intellectual activity isn't just daydreaming. It's the cause of everything that is. God doesn't find out about creation; he knows it into being. His knowing has hair on it. It is an effective act. What he knows, is. What he thinks, by the very fact of his thinking, jumps from no-thing into thing. He never thought of anything that wasn't.

Wally Schirra

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

Vincent Cassel

I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

Saul Alinsky

The seventh rule of the ethics of means and ends is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics. The judgment of history leans heavily on the outcome of success or failure; it spells the difference between the traitor and the patriotic hero. There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father.

Tom Morello

My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.

Tom Morello

If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would feel very confident putting early Van Halen forward as our champion.

Tom Hardy

I get hired more then I get seen more. I get seen more then maybe celebrity and fame happens but at the end of the day there's no difference between my five dollar performance and my fifty million dollar performance. It's not going to make me a better father.

Tom Coburn

The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.