Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Icke

A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success.' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector?

Chloe Dao

She hates it. She did it all her life and she had to learn how to sew to survive. She couldn't fathom I want to sew because it is my dream.

Since he was a kid, he always wanted to be a jockey. But he was very good at school, and his father was very keen to have him finish his studies before anything else.

Sandra Bullock

She's a big, fat woman star, and all big, fat women stars have a tough time with men.

Most people are used to the old story of AMD and Intel where they were tied together and the fate of Intel was the fate of AMD.

Mike's a father figure for these guys. The guy's consistent, he doesn't change, and he's got a big heart.

Mike was the kind of guy who would give the shirt off his back for anyone. He was like a second father to my kids.

Angela Carter

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods

Mentally it's not tough because we love to play hockey. But fatigue kicks in by the second game.

Deana Carter

My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire.

Dean Ornish

One of the reasons my father ... became a dentist was so he could always be home for dinner and spend weekends with his family. At one point he had thought about being a musician, but he said, I'm not going to do that because I'd be on the road all the time and I wouldn't be with my family.

Dean Kamen

We are in a race between knowledge and catastrophe. If we keep track of what is important, never lower our standards or forget why we are here, we have the ability to determine the fate of the world.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.

Eleanor Porter

Oh, yes," nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times [in the Bible] to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - SOME.

Eleanor Mondale

How rude would I be, walking around and saying: 'Hello. I'm Eleanor Mondale. My father was vice president of the United States. Treat me differently.

Elbert Hubbard

Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.

Elbert Hubbard

Postponement: The father of failure.

Elbert Hubbard

Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

Eleanor Roosevelt

So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

Eike Batista

What I learned from my father is to think big.

Egon Schiele

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness

Edward Abbey

In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.

Edward Abbey

Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true -- I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than I am in the fate of all the Arabs of Araby, all the Wogs of Hindustan, all the Ethiopes of Abyssinia....

Edward Abbey

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

Eddie Trunk

My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions.

Atom Egoyan

The fathers greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

Atul Gawande

When we lived in a society where we had large families that lived together, especially in agricultural societies like my grandfather and father grew up in, the result is you always had family around to take care of you.

Aristotle

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

Aristotle

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

Ben Jonson

Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.

Ben Jonson

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.