Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judy Biggert

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.

Jane Addams

The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.

Jane Addams

I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become, during his earlier years of a miller’s life.

Jane Austen

I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.

Jane Austen

Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

Jane Austen

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

Jane Austen

Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.

Jane Austen

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

Jane Austen

never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's...

Jane Austen

We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

Janez Drnovsek

Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of 'others' and 'our' problems are being increasingly erased.

Janet Suzman

Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.

Janice Dickinson

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

Jane Seymour

My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you've done your best, you've done well enough.

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

Ken Kesey

But as Garcia said, you know, the '60s ain't over till the fat lady gets high. And that means that whatever it takes to get you high: sometimes grief, sometimes it's prayer, fasting. I prefer a joint.

Raj Kapoor

My grandfather was a judge and my grandmother wished that my father Prithviraj Kapoor too would study law and become a judge like her husband.

My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work.

My father was an entrepreneur. I always knew one day I would try to start my own business.

My father was an alcoholic. My mother was gone. She's the only mother I ever knew.

My father had done his own soul searching,

Walter Hill

My Father was a great boxer, and I grew up watching the fights, live and on TV too.

Terry Hall

My father was a builder. He had a contracting company. And I'm a people person.

My father wanted people to stay on the slopes and ski with their hotel people.

David Cronenberg

My father used to work here, back when it was The Toronto Telegram. These remind me of him.

Paul Coffey

My father used to tell me the game is not privileged to have you, you're privileged to have hockey,

Scott Caan

My father tried to raise me like his father raised him.

Jim Nantz

My father took me to the first regular season game they ever played, when John Gilliam ran the opening kickoff back, ... So I've always had a special place in my heart for the franchise. ... I know how much they mean to that community.

Abraham Lincoln

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

William Shakespeare

My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules

J. Paul Getty

My father said: ''You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals.''

My father said, 'You better get out of Hong Kong. They are real barbarians'.

Tess Gerritsen

My father said writing was a nice hobby, ... Not something you could make money at.