Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Trillin

It was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be.

Calvin Trillin

Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States.

Calvin Trillin

Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.

Darryl Sutter

Wow. That's pretty neat. That is weird. Maybe there's some fate there.

Billy Long

No one could reach Amy Winehouse before it was too late. Can anyone reach Washington before it's too late? Both addicted - same fate?

Billy Sherwood

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

Anupam Kher

I have played 50 different kinds of fathers and villains. Only mediocre actors play the part the same way.

We've been putting up some pretty good points before tonight. I don't know if the fatigue set in or what. Our kids kind of had it on auto-pilot.

The grand jury obviously saw that they would have suffered the same fate if it were any other driver.

Adam McKay

I hired a personal trainer to help me lose 25 pounds and get from obese to fat. My next step will be to get from fat to chubby.

Jonathan Winters

My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

Joe Strummer

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.

Turkey is seeing a fatality rate of 20 percent which is lower than the fatality rate observed in Asia, which was around 58 percent.

Turkey cutlets are lower in fat than chicken, and the leanest high protein food to eat,

You are mother, father and friend, O Lord and Master, the whole world is Your child, O Lord of the World.

Bobby Miller

While the parasite, Ariel Sharon, was talking about turning Palestinians into a pastrami sandwich, fate turned Sharon into a vegetable.

Chauncey Billups

That's crazy, man. I can't even fathom that. That's crazy.

The laboratory in the U.K. said that they have detected H5N1 in samples from the two fatal cases.

Dylan Thomas

the land of my fathers . . . . I leave it to my fathers.

Janet Reno

The (Miami) relatives say it would be wrenching to him to take him from the home, but four months is no substitute for six years for a father who had such an important role in raising such a wonderful little boy,

Ehud Barak

their own fate and the fate of their families, their children, all of us.

The severity of the downturn still hinges on the fate of consumers.

These trans fats were found to make a product last longer on the shelves.

I was 25 when I first started playing for Gloucestershire, because my father had insisted I got a proper qualification before trying to make it as a cricketer,

Lakhdar Brahimi

Not much, I'm sorry to say, because my father passed away when I was very young. I was eleven, and my mother was a simple, uneducated peasant.

No trans fats are recommended for a healthy diet, so there really aren't any trans fats that we need.

The new generation of fathers is interested in doing this, and fathers are taking more time to be with their children.

Marion Nestle

It's not better to substitute palm oil to get the trans fats out.

William Goldman

Anyway, here's the "good parts" version. S. Morgenstern wrote it. And my father read it to me. And now I give it to you. What you do with it will be of more than passing interest to us all.

Lord Byron

Indigestion is - that inward fate which makes all Styx through one small liver flow

I'm not a politician, but I am the father of a murdered child.

Timothy Spall

I'm not always fat, but when I'm thin, people don't seem to notice. I'm seen as a fat person no matter what shape I'm in.

Hank Aaron

I knew his father very well. And yes, I think I would owe it not only to Barry. I owe it to his father to respect everything that this young man has accomplished.