Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay-Z

The most amazing feeling I feel Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real Maybe I paint the sky blue My greatest creation was you.

Jay London

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

Jay Leno

Did you see Walker's father? 'My son loves America.' Yeah, like O.J. loved his wife.

Jay Leno

Bush is smart. I don't think that Bush will ever be impeached, 'cause unlike Clinton, Reagan, or even his father, George W. is immune from scandal. Because, if George W. testifies that he had no idea what was going on, wouldn't you believe him?

Carlo Collodi

Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.

Candace Parker

Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.

Camryn Manheim

I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word

Camryn Manheim

Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

Candace Bushnell

I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.

Buzz Bissinger

I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.

James Hillman

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

James Earl Jones

I agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet.

James Dobson

When these parenting years have passed, something precious will have flickered and gone out of my life. Thus, I am resolved to enjoy every day that remains in this fathering era.

James Ellroy

When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy.

Jared Kushner

I was raised to work for my father when I was four.

Jared Kushner

My father always told me, 'Don't waste energy worrying about things you can't control. Spend your energy focusing on solutions'.

Janet Fitch

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?

Paul Rudd

My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.

Paul Harding

There is my father whispering in my ear, Be still still still. And yet you change everything. What was the marsh like, waiting for the storm before you came and kneeled in the water? It was nothing. Watch after you leave the water, now cold and regretful, miles from home, certain of the belt on your backside, the cold shoulder, the extra chores; watch. Watch the water heal itself of your presence--not to repair injury but to offer itself again should you care to risk another strapping [...].

Paul Auster

When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.

Paul Auster

I'm in constant inner dialogue with my father still.

Paul Auster

We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even accidental death we can ascribe to fate. But for a man to die of no apparent cause, for a man to die simply because he is a man, brings us so close to the invisible boundary between life and death that we no longer know which side we are on. Life becomes death, and it is as if this death has owned this life all along. Death without warning. Which is to say: life stops. And it can stop at any moment.

Patrick Henry

The great object is that every man be armed.

Pat Conroy

My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

Pat Conroy

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

Pam Brown

Thank you for being interested. Doesn't sound much but it meant just about everything.

The church's final word is not 'church' but the glory of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of liberty

The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers and the Fathers of the church, knowing meant something different: it meant knowing in wonder. By knowing or perceiving one participates in the life of the other. Here knowing does not transform the counterpart into the property of the knower; the knower does not appropriate what he knows. On the contrary, he is transformed through sympathy, becoming a participant in what he perceives.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all.

Juan Williams

The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not worth mentioning. Let me be the skunk at this political garden party and say this stinks. Representative government was not designed to work this way by the Founding Fathers.

Judd Apatow

I started a radio show where I interviewed comics.And I interviewed Leno and Seinfeld and John Candy and Father Guido Sarducci and Garry Shandling, all when I was 16.And they kind of told me what to do.

Joseph Pulitzer

They call me the father of illustrated journalism. What folly! I never thought any such thing. I had a small newspaper, which had been dead for years, and I was trying in every way to build up its circulation. What could I use for bait? A picture, of course.

Joseph Sobran

Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.