Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. Wright Mills

The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.

Buffalo Bill

With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.

Bruce Williams

Never love anything that can't love you back.

Bryan Adams

My father's a character.

Cesar Romero

If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!

Cesare Pavese

It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny .

Cesare Pavese

The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.

Catherine Deneuve

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

Cary Fowler

Most of us take seeds for granted. The fate of human kind is resting on these genetic resources: Seeds. So nothing could be more important.

Cary Grant

My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'

Carole Lombard

I can’t imagine a duller fate than being the best dressed woman in reality. When I want to do something I don’t pause to contemplate whether I’m exquisitely gowned. I want to live, not pose!

Caroline Kennedy

I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up.

Caroline Kennedy

I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president - not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans.

Carlos Slim

No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.

Carlos Santana

When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days - thats a long time for me.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Coincidences are the scars of fate.

Camille Paglia

Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.

Camille Paglia

Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

Bruno Schulz

In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.

Chris Cleave

I'm a much better writer for being a father.

Chris Avellone

When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any enchantment, and lend its servant the power to pass sentence. Know this: There is nothing on all the Planes that can stay the hand of justice when it is brought against them. It may unmake armies. It may sunder the thrones of gods. Know that for all who betray justice, I am their fate. And fate carries an executioner's axe.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I've played a lot of fathers in my life, and it seems that my kids are getting older and older in films, and I'm always surprised at how good they are.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

A lot of people ask me about my father's passing when I was young, which I'm never comfortable with. I invariably move around that subject.

Chinua Achebe

A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.

Chinua Achebe

As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.

Chinua Achebe

Ogbuef Ezedudu,who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking the Peace of Ani had become very mild in their clan. "It has not always been so," he said. "My father told me that he had been told that in the past a man who broke the peace was dragged on the ground through the village until he died. but after a while this custom was stopped because it spoiled the peace which it was meant to preserve.

Chief Seattle

The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.

Chief Joseph

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

Chief Joseph

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.

Chief Joseph

Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good.