Famous Quotes & Sayings

Basil Bunting

I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast.

Eddie Vedder

You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

Elizabeth Edwards

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

Elizabeth Edwards

My father had gone to Vietnam.

Elizabeth Bowen

No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.

Elizabeth Bowen

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Both Italy and Britain have a great tailoring tradition. British men are famously elegant and careful with their style: they love to have their clothes tailored, and they often have a trusted tailor who is passed on from father to son. Plus you have this great textile and fabric tradition, which has been a source of inspiration to us.

Dominic Chianese

My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.

Dizzy Dean

I only went to the third grade because my father only went to the fourth and I didn't want to pass him.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Judah Friedlander

Let's say there was a fat guy heckling me. I would rip him to shreds, but I would never go for the obvious, never talk about how he's fat or anything.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Robert Browning

Leave the flesh to the fate it was fit for! the spirit be thine!

Marcus Aurelius

So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father

So how did I get from this dude, to Father Calloway?

Eddie Vedder

She tells herself, and everyone else, father is risking his life for our freedoms.

David Cook

She was released this morning, she's talked to her father and she's fine.

Ed Royce

I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he helped liberate Dachau in the 7th Army.

Earl Sweatshirt

Shout out to the fathers that didn't raise us

Elizabeth McCracken

My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.

Elizabeth McGovern

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

Edsel Ford

Father made the most popular cars in the world; I want to make the best.

Edmund Waller

That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.

Edmund White

Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers some hard truths about the heroic founders of Israel and the Beginnings of Israeli science. The Book of Telling keeps in all the fears and resentments and consolations and warmth of such a process-at once her own story and the tale of a nation.

Edna O'Brien

It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Father, I beg of Thee a little task To dignify my days, 'tis all I ask.

Edgar Meyer

From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody Ive ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.

Edgar Lee Masters

In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.

Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of bulls before his day, even as brave men lived before Agamemnon; but they are not remembered, and if their bulls have survived them they are credited to Sir Boyle by a posterity generously forgiving and forgetful of his famous indictment.

Bobby McFerrin

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

Benjamin Franklin

The apostle Paul very seriously advised Timothy to put some wine in his water for health's sake, but not one of the apostles nor any of the holy fathers have ever recommended putting water in wine

Benjamin Franklin

I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.