Famous Quotes & Sayings

The people who are setting the foundation are the mothers and fathers. I think we are just giving students recognition for the good habits that parents are instilling in them. We can't wake up 900 students and make sure they always go to school. That's up to parents.

We treat this as Mardi Gras weekend because there are a lot of celebrations occurring prior to Fat Tuesday.

Jason Mraz

'Yes' is the mother of all positive words, next to 'love.' Maybe 'love' is the father of all positive words.

Charles Fort

The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.

Charles Bukowski

it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.

Charles Bukowski

there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.

Charles Bukowski

Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.

He was a father figure to all of us.

He used to harp on me every day on how we had fat tight ends.

John Cornyn

He did commiserate with me a little bit, ... I hope that he will be able to give the United States Supreme Court's ruling some coherence, because frankly they are way out of step with what the founding fathers intended.

He comes from lineage of tough people. His grandfather was a great football player at Idaho. His father was a great player at Boise State. He comes by this naturally. He's the next generation of tough guys.

Frank Thomas

He knows how to pitch to the fat part of the ballpark.

Joan Robinson

He is still the same manipulative person who has used the system, and it dishonors the life of my father and the life of Jackie Pigott.

Mike Connors

Half the inspections we do are in the construction industry because of the high fatality rates.

Galeazzo Ciano

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Alice Walker

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.

Bob Thomason

If they ever do, they've got to take my picture from about 20 years ago when I was kind of thin. I don't want a fat statue out there.

Alexandra Kerry

To every little girl her father is a hero.

In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.

At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

Alan Lightman

Everyone shares the same fate.

Alafair Burke

Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.

Alain de Botton

According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone else' is a category that comprises the mediocre and the conformist, the boring and the suburban. The goal of all right-thinking people should be to mark themselves off from the crowd and 'stand out' in whatever way their talents allow.

Al Goldstein

So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.

Al Franken

If we have George W. Bush as president, we're going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.

Al Gore

The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth.

Charles R. Swindoll

Cultivate your own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be miles different from yours. Rabbits don't fly. Eagles don't swim. Ducks look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don't have feathers. Stop comparing. There's plenty of room in the forest.

Charles Kettering

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

Charles Kingsley

And how high is Christ's cross? As high as the highest heaven, and the throne of God, and the bosom of the Father that bosom out of which forever proceed all created things. Ay, as high as the highest heaven! for if you will receive it when Christ hung upon the cross, heaven came down on earth, and earth ascended into heaven.

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.

Our father was a Finnish man, very reserved. He didn't really talk about feelings.

Our father always said, 'She'll come back to us,'