Famous Quotes & Sayings

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!

Alfred Adler

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

Angela Merkel

The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.

Angela Carter

I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.

Angela Carter

As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from the vantage point of his wondrously serene old age, he contemplates our lives almost as if they were books he can dip into whenever he wants. His back pages, perhaps.

Angela Carter

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

Andrew Johnson

I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with negroes. I am for it without negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space

Andrew Jackson

Perpetuity is stamped upon the Constitution by the blood of our fathers.

Andrew Jackson

The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.

Amy Sedaris

My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.

Amy Tan

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

Amy Tan

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

Amy Tan

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

Amy Tan

There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.

Amy Tan

Fate changes when you change your clothes.

Amory Lovins

Our energy future is choice, not fate. Oil dependence is a problem we need no longer have-and it's cheaper not to. U.S. oil dependence can be eliminated by proven and attractive technologies that create wealth, enhance choice, and strengthen common security.

Amitabh Bachchan

I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.

Amiri Baraka

I am a soul in the world: in the world of my soul the whirled light from the day the sacked land of my father.

Anthony Bourdain

When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar, cracking clams for a living when he died. So, he never saw me complete a book or achieve anything of note. I would have liked to have shared this with him.

Anthony Bourdain

I am very much enjoying the fatherhood phase of my life.