Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Kiedis

Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.

Anthony Hopkins

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

Alison Bechdel

If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.

Alison Bechdel

My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

Alice Sebold

Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?

Alice Sebold

It was Buckley, as my father and sister joined the group and listened to Grandma Lynn’s countless toasts, who saw me. He saw me standing under the rustic colonial clock and stared. He was drinking champagne. There were strings coming out from all around me, reaching out, waving in the air. Someone passed him a brownie. He held it in his hand but did not eat. He saw my shape and face, which had not changed-the hair still parted down the middle, the chest still flat and hips undeveloped-and wanted to call out my name. It was only a moment, and then I was gone.

Alice Sebold

There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and then, incredibly, sound and melody and warmth.

Alice Sebold

My father had not been outside the house except to drive back and forth to work or sit out in the backyard, for months, nor had he seen his neighbors. Now he looked at them, from face to face, until he realized I had been loved by people he didn't even recognize. His heart filled up, warm again as it had not been in what seemed so long to him- save small forgotten moments with Buckley, the accidents of love that happened with his son. ~pgs 209-210; Buckley, Lindsey and Jack on Susie

Alice Sebold

As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I had a choice, and it was not to divide my family in my heart.

Alice Sebold

Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with and set the clipper ship free on its blue putty sea. And I would wait for him, recognizing the tension of that moment when the world in the bottle depended, solely, on me.

Alice Sebold

Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: "She’s never coming home." A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone who had ever known me had accepted. But he needed to say it, and she needed to hear him say it.

Alice Walker

I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.

Alice Meynell

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

Alice Hoffman

Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

Anne Lamott

My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.

Danny Devito

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

Danny Devito

In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin.

Connie Chung

As the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name

Condoleezza Rice

The first Republican I knew was my father and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I.

Colin Baker

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

Cliff Burton

Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

Cleveland Amory

I told the good Father that if he and I were going in the future to some wonderful Elysian Field and the animals were not going to go anywhere, that was all the more reason to give them a little better shake in the one life they did have.

Dante Alighieri

I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?

Dante Alighieri

Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.

Dan Simmons

Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.

Dan Savage

Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

Dan Fogelman

Some of my favorite movies have explored the father-son dynamic, in a very loving way. It can be complicated, but at the end, it's that moment where you're crying because of that core relationship.

Cyrus Broacha

I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the Persian emperor. Continuing the tradition, I have named my son after Mikhail Gorbachev, someone whom I admire. He gave his people freedom.

Danielle Steel

I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.

Corliss Lamont

We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

Corrie Ten Boom

We deal with God - who is Love. He isn't a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to what He would like to do for us.