Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Ehrenreich

When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

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.

Pink

When I'm on tour, I'm in really good shape. When I get home, I cook, I eat, I get fat and happy.

Bruce Springsteen

I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts.

Bruce Springsteen

Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.

Bruce Springsteen

In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.

Brian Jacques

I fell, you see. Trod on my abbot, Father Habit. Oh, dear! I mean...

Brian Jacques

Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived.

Brian Austin Green

My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.

Brian Andreas

Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.

Brendan Coyle

I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

Brad Meltzer

Our fathers never leave us. Ever.

Brad Meltzer

...as your father, my instinct is to protect you ... Other people will want to protect you too. But remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget the prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.

Brad Meltzer

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Brad Pitt

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

Brad Pitt

My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'

Brad Pitt

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

Jane Fonda

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

Jane Fonda

How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?

Jane Fonda

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.

Jane Fonda

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

Jan Hus

O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed.

Jamie Bell

I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

Jamie Dimon

My father and grandfather were stockbrokers, and they would actually take stock certificates from a vault, give it to a runner, and send it to another vault. Then somebody said, "Let's digitize it and have one vault." Now the DTCC clears and settles almost everything, and the cost of doing a trade is a tenth of what it was before.

Ally Carter

She looked at him and shook her head, smiled a litle as she told him, "You are so like your father." Then she looked past me and Zach, past Bex and Abby, to where Agent Townsend sttod by the door with his arms crossed. "What do you think, Townsend, darling? Isn't he just like you?" She looked at Zach again. "I think he's just like you." And then she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.

Juvenal

To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

James E. Faust

I have been grateful for the influence of my grandmother and my grandfather in my life. I remember my grandmother as a queenly woman. My father could be stern, and my grandparents would remind him that we were just boys.