Famous Quotes & Sayings

David O. Russell

What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity.

David O. McKay

There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.

David O. McKay

[One] principle that actuated the lives of the fathers who founded our Constitution was faith in God.

David O. McKay

I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our nation be preserved and perpetuated.

David Mazzucchelli

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...

Danny Devito

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

Danny Devito

In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin.

Connie Chung

As the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name

Condoleezza Rice

The first Republican I knew was my father and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I.

Colin Baker

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

Cliff Burton

Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

Cleveland Amory

I told the good Father that if he and I were going in the future to some wonderful Elysian Field and the animals were not going to go anywhere, that was all the more reason to give them a little better shake in the one life they did have.

Dante Alighieri

I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?

Dante Alighieri

Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.

Dan Simmons

Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.

Dan Savage

Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

Dan Fogelman

Some of my favorite movies have explored the father-son dynamic, in a very loving way. It can be complicated, but at the end, it's that moment where you're crying because of that core relationship.

Cyrus Broacha

I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the Persian emperor. Continuing the tradition, I have named my son after Mikhail Gorbachev, someone whom I admire. He gave his people freedom.

Danielle Steel

I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.

Corrie Ten Boom

We deal with God - who is Love. He isn't a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to what He would like to do for us.

Cornelia Funke

I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up.

Cornelia Funke

He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll save him, Meggie!" he wispered in her ear. "I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending.I swear!

Cornelia Funke

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

Cormac McCarthy

Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.

Cormac McCarthy

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

Colm Toibin

Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died.

Dawn French

It was my father who taught me to value myself...

David Pleat

I was inbred into the game by my father

David Platt

Our great need is to fall before an almighty Father day and night and to plead for him to show his radical power in and through us, enabling us to accomplish for his glory what we could never imagine in our own strength.

David Livingstone

I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not to talk when we remember the great sacrifice which he made who left His Father's throne on high to give Himself for us.

David Lynch

The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.

David Lynch

As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.