Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Woody Allen

My father owned a small piece of land. He carried it with him wherever he went.

Woody Allen

I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.

William Winwood Reade

There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.

William Wordsworth

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

William Shakespeare

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

William Saroyan

Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.

William Shatner

Fate gives you the finger and you accept.

William Shatner

People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's said; the theory is maybe because his father was a conductor, it happened in vitro, and he heard the music before he was born, and by the age of four he knew how to write music.