Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Farrell

I think it would be slightly perverse to continue tempting fate by going back to the same places and doing the same sort of thing.

Stephen Greenblatt

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

Mother Teresa

All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.

Mona Simpson

Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working.

Molly Ringwald

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

I calculated the amount of time I spent with my father during my entire life... the total amount of time I had with him, if you add up the hours, was about two months. My father was a busy man... we had very few opportunities to really sit down and talk as father and son.

Mira Nair

We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot of things I do are very much with the family in mind. I have actually made films with the family around me.

Mira Sorvino

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

Mike Huckabee

When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom by the way were clergymen, they said that we had certain inalienable rights given to us by our creator, and among these life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, life being one of them. I still believe that.

Pearl S. Buck

Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be ...

Paula Yates

I don't remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn.

Paul Walker

My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy.

Philip Glenister

My father was a television director, and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry, but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.

Peter Straub

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Peter Thiel

In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so-called ‘social democracy.’ . . . We are in a deadly race between politics and technology. . . . The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism.

Peter L. Berger

Capitalism has been one of the most dynamic forces in human history, transforming one society after another, and today it has become established as an international system determining the economic fate of most of mankind.

Peter Kreeft

It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

Peter Fonda

I dig my father. I wish he could open his eyes and dig me.

Peter Berg

I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.

Paz Vega

My father was a bullfighter.

Phil Collins

I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

Phil Collins

I've been a long-distance father.

Peter Porter

Redeemers always reach the world too late. God dies, we live; God lives, we die. Our fate.

Peter Noone

Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time.

Peter O'Toole

When my father would come home from the track after a good day, the whole room would light up; it was fairyland. But when he lost, it was black. In our house, it was always either a wake ... or a wedding.

Peter Jacobson

My first film role was a reporter. It's funny, because my father was a news reporter. I always thought there was something strange about that.

Peter Jennings

The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.

Peter Jackson

I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.

Pete Rose

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

Pearl Bailey

Fate carries its own clock.

Phyllis Diller

My father used to call me the laughing hyena.

Phyllis McGinley

Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat ...

Philip Pullman

We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will sweep through all the worlds; it will be the triumph of despair, forever. The universes will all become nothing more than interlocking machines, blind and empty of thought, feeling, life...