Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Pullman

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.

Philip Pullman

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

Philip Pullman

Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.

Q'orianka Kilcher

My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.

Queen Latifah

I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.

Placido Domingo

I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

Sean Lennon

Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane...

Sean Lennon

I'm lucky to have had a father [John Lennon] who paid attention.

Sean Lennon

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.

Sean Lennon

My father was assassinated by an FBI-CIA connection

Sean Hannity

I think my father would give me the Department of the Interior because of my love of the outdoors, so we can get that going.

Sean Hannity

My father used to take off his belt and give me a crack. And I'm all right.

Shreya Ghoshal

I like my father being the boss in my life

Si Robertson

My father, OK, when we first got old enough to hunt, this was his rule: If you shoot it, you come home and eat it. Otherwise you do not shoot it, OK? You don't just kill something for the sake of killing it, OK? If you kill it, you gotta grill it, so to speak.

Shinichi Suzuki

Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is born without talent, there is nothing he can do about it; they simply resign themselves to what they consider to be their fate.

Shelby Steele

A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.

Shannon Hoon

I need to start caring about myself if I'm going to be a proper father.

Seymour Hersh

I don't know whether God talks to him or whether he's trying to undo what his father did. But he believes in the mission. The body bags aren't going to deter him. Public dissent isn't going to deter him. He's going to go ahead. And that's more frightening.

L. Ron Hubbard

I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

Leslie Caron

the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.

Leonard Peltier

What I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people and wants to go home.

Lawrence Eagleburger

My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.

Lawrence Block

If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

When I was a boy I was my father.

Larry Elder

Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that.

Lactantius

Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

Stephanie McMahon

It's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers].