Famous Quotes & Sayings

Heinrich Himmler

These clashes are the only evolu-tionary possibility which will enable us one day, now that Fate has given us the Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, to create the Germanic Reich.

Heinrich Himmler

All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.

Heath Ledger

I'm born to be a father. And I've been looking forward to this all my life.

Heath Ledger

Want know how I got these scars? My father was a drinker and a fiend. And one night he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn't like that. Not one bit. So, me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. He turns to me, and he says, 'why so serious?' He comes at me with the knife. 'Why so serious?!'. He sticks the blade in my mouth. 'Let's put a smile on that face!' And why so serious?

Hayley Mills

My father was an inspiration to me; I made a few movies with him and I loved working with him. Everything about him - his whole approach to work, as well as his love, enthusiasm and respect for it and other people in the business - was inspiring. I was very lucky to have him as a role model.

Heinrich Heine

Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance to fall upon their ears.

Henry Hyde

The founding fathers gave the House of Representatives one function when it comes to cleansing the office of the presidency and that is impeachment, .. Whether or not a resolution of censure is appropriate is something beyond our constitutional authority.

Henry Clay

I always have had, and always shall have, a profound regard for Christianity, the religion of my fathers, and for its rights, its usages and observances.

Henry Fielding

The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot.

Helena Bonham Carter

My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.

Helen Andelin

To be successful in the family the father must have the welfare of each family member at heart and his decisions and plans must be based upon what is best for them.

John Krasinski

All the cliches are true about parenting. All I've ever wanted to do is be a father, but there's this existential mirror that's held up when you have a kid.

Johanna Lindsey

By your father's word has your life been given to me to protect. Now do I give you my life in return, yours to keep until the day I die. --Falon to Shanelle

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Win for yourself that which your fathers have won.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

Joe Wright

My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.

Joe Torre

My father wasn't the best role model to me.

Joaquin Miller

Merciful Father, I will not complain. I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain.

Joe Frazier

If I said 'Fall down', he's gonna fall down. I'm still his father.

Joe Eszterhas

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

Joan Didion

We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.

Emma Thompson

The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.

John McCain

Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father.

John McCain

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.