Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Reiner

My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.

Bill Bryson

As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?

Bill Bryson

Every kid I knew had a father with a little stash of men's magazines which the father thought was secret and which the kid knew all about.

Bill Bryson

Entirely incidentally, a little-known fact about Shakespeare is that his father moved to Stratford-upon-Avon from a nearby village shortly before his son's birth. Had he not done so, the Bard of Avon would instead be known as the rather less ringing Bard of Snitterfield.

Bill Bryson

I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him.

Bethenny Frankel

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Bernard Berenson

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

Arsenio Hall

My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first.

Arnold Schoenberg

The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.

Antonia Thomas

My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

Bill Vaughan

Men are more like the time they live in than they are like their fathers.

Joschka Fischer

It is a tragic, tragic situation, for the father and the whole family,

Kristen is one of the victims. She is more a victim of this than most of us. She lost her mother, her father and for all real purposes, her brother.

I think fatigue is setting in. We've had six games in about a 13-day period.

I think fatigue does set in a little bit.

I request this release to be as soon as possible as my father is terminally ill and I wish to visit him one last time,

Penny Marshall

My mother was nuts. She was very funny. We got our sense of humor from her. My father had no sense of humor and they yelled at each other.

My mother and father had always supported us. They made it possible to do what we do and she would have wanted that we did this race today, I am sure.

Look at the ingredients label and keep trans fats as low as possible.

Bill Evans

Mark was like a father figure to me.

Michael Reagan

My mother, father and birth-mother were pro-life and pro-adoption. Because they were, my father made me a Reagan. I've come to honor my father, not to politicize his name.

I wish I had my father to hug yet.

It could really be that the prime minister doesn't know how much he weighs ... because fat people don't like to know how much they weigh.

It has seemed premature to announce, and especially while indictments are still not only out but where there might be more coming, ... what the fate of the team will be. Of course, this is a matter that will be given the gravest consideration at the appropriate time.

I'm still focusing on football presently, but my real goals are to get this institution back to where Father (Hugh) Sherlock (the founder of Boys' Town) would have wanted it.

It isn't over until the fat lady sings

Michael Lopez

Latinos have the highest increase in fatality rates of all populations. Safety has to be a top priority.

I was worried about our fatigue level, but fortunately, it didn't show up. I was proud of how we responded after three tough games.

Clark Blaise

Relative to most people I know, I am comfortable just about anywhere. I went to 20 schools before the 8th grade because my father couldn't hold a job. We moved every six months. I had to adjust.

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.

Bob Gunton

I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.