Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allen West

The great thing that I appreciate - the fact that my godfather, William 'Sticky' Jackson, was a Tuskegee Airman because my father was first born in Ozark, Alabama. The sacrifices and the commitment of those men made it possible for myself and many others.

Aesop

Every one is more or less master of his own fate.

Aeschylus

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

A. N. Wilson

I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.

Aaron Allston

Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?

Aeschylus

For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.

Aeschylus

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Agatha Christie

The past is the father of the present.

Adam Petty

I have patterned myself after my father and God.

Adam Johnson

Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.

Adam Gopnik

Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.

Abraham Clark

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

Abraham Cowley

The present is all the ready money Fate can give.

Abraham Cowley

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing. Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.

Abraham Maslow

The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.

Alexander Hamilton

States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.

Alex Steffen

Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.

Alex Pettyfer

Nothing embarrassing, but hopefully I can call myself a gentleman because of my father.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the best and the worst ahead of time but that it was easy to take a step you would reproach yourself for-all this freed the prisoner from any bondage, made him calmer, and even ennobled him.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.

Aleister Crowley

I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.

Bill Callahan

James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle.

Alexander the Great

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Alexander Skarsgard

My plan was never to be an actor like my father.

Alexander Skarsgard

I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a cowboy hat.

Abigail Spencer

My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.

Abigail Adams

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

Aberjhani

The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.

Aberjhani

As goes love so goes life.

Aaron Klug

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

Aaron Neville

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.