Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.

Baz Luhrmann

My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.

We'd wake up in the morning and there'd be a line of mothers, fathers, grandchildren waiting for us. We knew that we were there to save lives.

We are too fat at the top. To hire people at salaries higher than the mayor doesn't set a good precedent.

William Shakespeare

Tis a happy thing To be the father unto many sons.

William Shakespeare

Withal I did infer your lineaments, Being the right idea of your father, Both in your form and nobleness of mind; Laid open all your victories in Scotland, Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace, Your bounty, virtue, fair humility; Indeed, left nothing fitting for your purpose Untouch'd or slightly handled in discourse.

William Shakespeare

I have a bone to pick with Fate

Robert Green Ingersoll

Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf.

The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down, To know what last new folly fills the town; Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things, The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting king.

No fat suit. It's all smoke and mirrors.

Paul Reiser

Peter Falk and my father are very much the same.

Benjamin Franklin

Nick's Passions grow fat and hearty; his Understanding looks consumptive!

George Hincapie

One of the reasons I work so hard today is because my father taught me to persevere. I don't think I would be where I am today without his positive influence,

Octavio Paz

To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.

Patricia Kaas

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

Patricia Richardson

Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.

Pete Seeger

My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.

Rene Russo

I didn't have a father growing up, and I was raised with all women, and I didn't really understand men. I thought they were like women, right?

Unfortunately, we saw him reading a statement ... not talking in the loving way in which a father talks which suggests, perhaps, that the statement was written by someone else.

Well, lo and behold, the greatest thing that ever happened in my life, a month later Alvin Cooperman called back and told my father that I had tremendous talent!

I think fatigue is setting in. We've had six games in about a 13-day period.

I think fatigue does set in a little bit.

I request this release to be as soon as possible as my father is terminally ill and I wish to visit him one last time,

Overall, we think it was a big victory. The little guy doesn't have to subsidize the fat cat's health care.

O why do you walk through the fields in gloves, / Missing so much and so much? / O fat white woman whom nobody loves.

Penny Marshall

My mother was nuts. She was very funny. We got our sense of humor from her. My father had no sense of humor and they yelled at each other.

My mother and father had always supported us. They made it possible to do what we do and she would have wanted that we did this race today, I am sure.

Look at the ingredients label and keep trans fats as low as possible.

Bill Evans

Mark was like a father figure to me.

Alice Meynell

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

Alice Hoffman

Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

Anne Lamott

My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.

Ann Voskamp

Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.