Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis C. K.

If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't.

Louis C. K.

I'm a good citizen. I'm a good father. I recycle and I masturbate.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still. Another thing they taught was that no one was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, ‘You know – you never wrote a story with a villain in it.’ I told him that was one of the things I learned in college after the war.

Kurt Vonnegut

Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.

Madeleine Albright

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

Madeleine Albright

The stunning part was that one time Neil McElroy the Secretary of Defense who was the father of one of our classmates spoke and basically at commencement, he told us all that our job after graduation was to get married and have interesting sons...and we all found that hard to believe.

William Shakespeare

Who can control his fate?

William Shakespeare

What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?

William Shakespeare

Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain.

William Shakespeare

O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.

William Shakespeare

Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table.

William Shakespeare

O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!

William Shakespeare

You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him!

William Shakespeare

To you your father should be as a god.

William Shakespeare

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.

William Shakespeare

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.

William Shakespeare

If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.

Nelson Peltz

I understood the power of Heinz since I was a kid, and I started to work for my father selling food to restaurants.

Nell Newman

I used to tell people my father was a plumber, because that would mean we had a normal life.

We don't have any fat asses, ... and we are hard on each other.

We're getting the fat out of the company,

Bill Maher

I want to just take a moment to thank the Teabaggers. Thank you so much for helping us pass health care, for resurrecting the Obama presidency. I know they're saying, 'Why are you thanking me? I was so against it, I marched on Washington with tea bags hanging off my Founding Fathers costume, with a gun on my hip and a picture of Obama dressed as Hitler, screaming about his birth certificate.' And America saw that and said, 'I think I'll go with the calm black man.'

Bill Maher

Now that they've finished reading the Constitution out loud, the Teabaggers must call out that group of elitist liberals whose values are so antithetical to theirs. I'm talking of course about the Founding Fathers, who the Teabaggers believe are just like them, but aren't. One is a group of exclusively white men who live in a bygone century, have bad teeth, and think of blacks as 3/5 of a person, and the other are the Founding Fathers.

Bil Keane

Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He's just like one of the family.

Bill Ayers

Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our fathers-settler-colonialism, the doctrine of discovery, the myth of manifest destiny, white supremacy, theft and systematic killing-to the contemporary condition of permanent war, invasion and occupation, mass incarceration, and the constant use and threat of state violence.

Bob Marley

Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner, there ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation.

Bill Walton

There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.

Bill Watterson

Calvin: Dear Santa, before I submit life to your scrutiny, I demand to know who made YOU the matter of my fate?! Who are YOU to question my behavior, HUH??? What gives you the right?! Hobbes: Santa makes the toys, so he gets to decide who to give them to. Calvin: Oh.

Bill Vaughan

How wisely fate ordain'd for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass, Wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

Benoit Mandelbrot

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.

Bill Goldberg

I'm also a devoted father, and you see that side of me at the same time.

Benny Hinn

What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man...God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.

Bob Gunton

As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did study with the Paulist Fathers for two years after high school in full anticipation of becoming a priest.