Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rene Auberjonois

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.

Rene Auberjonois

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.

Richard Branson

If we can just get young people to do the same as their fathers did, that is, wear condoms

Tim Hansel

It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again.

Thucydides

To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has raised them above the common level. The man who submits to the shafts of envy for the sake of noble objects pursues a judicious course for his own lasting fame. Hatred dies with its object, while merit soon breaks forth in full splendor, and his glory is handed down to posterity in never-dying strains.

Robert A. Heinlein

Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

Rick Atkinson

In battle, topography is fate.

Richie Havens

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

Thomas Brooks

Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled up with vanity and folly. The neglect of one day, of one duty, of one hour, would undo us, if we had not an Advocate with the Father.

Thomas Brooks

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.

Tim Robbins

It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia.

Tim McGraw

I'm probably the most uncool guy that [my daughters] know-as far as they are concerned anyway-'cause I'm Dad. I mean dads just aren't cool-especially when I dance! They don't want me to dance.

Tim Allen

I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it.

Tim Allen

When you're 6 or 7, your father becomes this wonderful presence in your life. I really responded to my father. And then, the very moment I realized that I loved him unconditionally, that life was going to be great just because he was in it, he was gone.

Tiger Woods

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

Thomas Watson

Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.

Thomas Szasz

I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society it is none of the government's business what ideas a man puts into his mind; likewise, it should be none of its business what drugs he puts into his body.

Steven Wright

When I was ten, my pa told me never to talk to strangers. We haven't spoken since.

Steven Saylor

I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself.

Steven Soderbergh

My father, who was the one who really got me hooked on movies, liked all kinds of films, and I saw all kinds of films at a very young age.

Steven Spielberg

Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a half, I probably would still have made some of the same choices for movies that I've made.

Steven Spielberg

I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.

Steven Spielberg

I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.

Regina Brett

It takes courage to sit on a jury. How many of us want to decide the fate of another person's life or freedom? How many of us want to hold that kind of power in our hands?

Regina Brett

Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor's pies. I also hid the book of 'Grimm Fairy Tales.' They're just too grim for my grandkids. Reality will come soon enough.

Red Buttons

William Tell's son, Telly, who said as his father was pointing the bow and arrow at the apple on his head, There's gotta be an easier way to kill worms. Never got a dinner!

Raymond Blanc

Like my father before me, I'm a very passionate person, with boundless energy and tremedous willpower.

Tom Hollander

I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty.

Tom Jones

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

Toni Morrison

It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn't think of it as, oh, look, my father's a violent man.

Toni Morrison

I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, "You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it." And I said, "But, Daddy, no one's going to see it!" And he said, "Yeah, but I know it's there." So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work.

Tom Stoppard

If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When Father Painted the Parlour'? Leave me out. I can expand my universe without you. 'She walks into beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies, and all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes.

Thomas Jones

I had a great family. My father was in the Air Force, so we were always disciplined, goal oriented.