Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dodie Smith

Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

Dodie Smith

And at last father flung the rug off as if it were hampering him and strode over to the table saying, 'cocoa, cocoa!'-- it might have been the most magnificent drink in the world; which, personally, I think it is.

Dodie Smith

He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?" He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening — I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he said I was probably too young to understand him; but I understood perfectly.

Dinah Shore

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

Dinesh D'Souza

Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

Dinesh D'Souza

I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist.

Dick Gregory

In the United States, the Constitution is a health chart left by the Founding Fathers which shows whether or not the body politic is in good health. If the national body is found to be in poor health, the Founding Fathers also left a prescription for the restoration of health called the Declaration of Independence.

Derek Magyar

I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.

Delmore Schwartz

I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.

Deepak Chopra

My father was a doctor, an army cardiologist.

Andre Agassi

My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order.

Amber Tamblyn

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad

Alphonsus Liguori

New revelations regarding faith or morals ... have always been abhorred and challenged in the Church ... Hence, the Sovereign Pontiffs, the Councils, and the Fathers have been most careful to reject all novelties or new doctrines on matters of faith which differed from those already received.

Anthony Quinn

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.

Anthony Mackie

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.

Anna Seward

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

Anna Quindlen

Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.

Anna Quindlen

As I said, I had this fabulous college education. At college I met the man to whom I've been married for 34 years and who is the father of those three kids. I seriously considered going to another college, and my life would have been completely different in every way.

Angelique Kidjo

Don't let anyone define and decide for you fate.

Angelina Grimke

Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.

Alfred Doblin

You shouldn't be a big shot about your fate. I'm an enemy of Destiny, I'm not a Greek, I'm a Berliner.

Alfred de Vigny

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.

Alfred de Musset

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!

Alexander Pope

Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

Alexander Pope

Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

Alexander Pope

Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.

Alexander Pope

Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.

Alexander Pope

Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

Alexa Ray Joel

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.

Alex Grey

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.

Albert Schweitzer

O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.

E. M. Forster

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

E. M. Forster

It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror--on thethings that I might have avoided.