Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Mazzucchelli

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...

Danny Devito

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

Danny Devito

In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin.

Connie Chung

As the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name

Condoleezza Rice

The first Republican I knew was my father and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I.

Colin Baker

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

Cliff Burton

Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

Cleveland Amory

I told the good Father that if he and I were going in the future to some wonderful Elysian Field and the animals were not going to go anywhere, that was all the more reason to give them a little better shake in the one life they did have.

Dante Alighieri

I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?

Dante Alighieri

Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.

Dan Simmons

Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.

Dan Savage

Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

Dan Fogelman

Some of my favorite movies have explored the father-son dynamic, in a very loving way. It can be complicated, but at the end, it's that moment where you're crying because of that core relationship.

Cyrus Broacha

I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the Persian emperor. Continuing the tradition, I have named my son after Mikhail Gorbachev, someone whom I admire. He gave his people freedom.

Doc Hastings

In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today.

Eric Avery

I just didn't like the idea of doing reunions, period. I could only see it as I'd just be going over the same old ground. I'm only years older and fatter and I'll just do an older, fatter version of me.

We called it Father Baker's miracle. Miracles don't have to last forever.

Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.

But then Mikhail told us something that stunned us even more - the reason the picture was so important to Mikhail was because Sergei was his son. He was stunned to see a picture of me, a new friend of his, with his own son. And I was stunned to find out they were father and son.

But, ... my father listened to his heart, and not to the chorus.

Matt Bomer

For some reason, they always gave me a fat suit in high-school productions. If there was a character who needed to be robust, they gave me a fat suit, and I put on a silly voice.

Pat Conroy

I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

Ludwig von Mises

Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.

Ludwig von Mises

It is evident that youth is the first victim of the trend toward bureaucratization. The young men are deprived of any opportunity to shape their own fate.

Annabella Sciorra

Unlike a movie, you kind of learn things about yourself every week, ... When you get a new script, you find out, oh, I was with the FBI, or oh, my father was this, or oh, this is where I grew up. They can make it up as they go along.

I was old and fat when I started, ... This makes you young ---- and not fat.

Garrett Temple

Most guys who went through what (Davis) went through hardly live to talk about it. He didn't have a father figure in his life at that time, so my father was that man, to help him out and get him on his feet.

Jay Paterno

You just ignore it. You know you're qualified. I know my father in my situation ... he's not going to hand me a job just because of who I am.

Roberto Mancini

We played very, very well the first 25 minutes of the second half and maybe we paid for that with some fatigue in the final quarter-hour.

We're really lucky we have John Wright playing the father, and he's wonderful.

William Shakespeare

Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of your youth, examine well your blood, Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice, You can endure the livery of a nun, For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd, To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood, To undergo such maiden pilgrimage; But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.

William Shakespeare

Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.