Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Sandler

I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

Adam Sandler

Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

Adam Sandler

I've been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I'm driving, I hear I'm a moron. I like being a moron.

Adam Sandler

Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me.

Adam Sandler

My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

Adam Sandler

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

Adam Sandler

My name is Adam. My father's name is Adam. Having the same name as your father, it's alright until your voice changes. My friends would always call up, 'Is Adam there?' My father would say, 'This is Adam.' My friends would say, 'Adam, you were so wasted last night.'

Abraham Verghese

Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.

Abraham Lincoln

In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.

Abraham Lincoln

In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction . . . . All I have asked or desired anywhere, is that it should be placed back again upon the basis that the Fathers of our government originally placed it upon.

Abraham Lincoln

Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.

Anna Torv

I've been estranged from my father since I was eight.

Annalena McAfee

My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.

Anita Baker

I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.

Ani Difranco

I really have been enjoying performing more lately than I have in a long time and you know, it's all about that sort of centered feeling that I have now. You know, thanks to, not just my kid, but her father before her. You know, I have a kind of a grounding through them that I really relish, and I think is also good for my work, you know.

Ani Difranco

fate is not just whose cooking smells good, but which way the wind blows

Andrew Marvell

But Fate does iron wedges drive, And always crowds itself betwixt.

Ally Carter

Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.

Ally Carter

It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.

Ally Carter

So instead she settled on, "Did my father put you up to this?" Hale exhaled a quick laugh and shook his head. "He hasn't returned my calls since Barcelona." He leaned closer and whispered, "I think he might still be mad at me." "Yeah, well, that makes two of us." "Hey," Hale snapped. "We all agreed that that monkey seemed perfectly well trained at the time.

Ally Carter

...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.

Alison Lohman

There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.

Ann Brashares

Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.

Ann Brashares

When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.

Ann Coulter

So I think all gays who are born gay are overwhelming conservative, maybe apolitical, and all those angry gays, causing trouble for everybody, I don't think they were born gay. I think they are just angry at their fathers.

Andy Garcia

My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.

Andrea Bocelli

Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.

Andrea Bocelli

I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.

Andrea Bocelli

Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.

Jennifer Lopez

I love to eat everything and you pretty much can - a little piece of something fattening is not going to kill you. It's when you eat the whole box that it's going to kill you.

Henry B. Eyring

The Father to whom we pray is the glorious God who created worlds through His Beloved Son.

Gail Carriger

His lordship can eat my fat—

Dilma Rousseff

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'