Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Atkins

I'm a very big believer in fate.

Christoph Waltz

Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

Christine Keeler

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

Christine Keeler

The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it.

Christine Lagarde

When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.

I had a very intense relationship with my father, who was always extremely interested in what we kids were doing. I actually think the secret of many successful women is having a father who encourages them.

The pressure on kids is high to get good grades. In my time, no one cared about it. My father looked at them but he didn't really make much fuss about them.

Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried under and drowned by it.

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

Christian Camargo

My father always said: 'If you want to know someone, live together on a boat.'

Chrissie Hynde

One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.

Chrissy Teigen

Many [most] of Ivanka's [Trump] ideals are the platform of the democratic party. Her father [Donald Trump] has never mentioned anything she spoke about in her RNC speech. He doesn't talk about childcare, equal pay, women's rights.

Christian Bale

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.

Chris Pine

I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there were good years and lean years. I didn't expect anything from the business, and that's often a danger in Hollywood, the notion that if you're pretty and have white teeth and just show up for the game then you'll win.

Chris Higgins

I remember distinctly telling my father-in-law, barring a miracle, we're going to have to terminate the pregnancy. Her health has to come first

Chris Hayes

[Donald Trump] spreading preposterous rumors that [Ted] Cruz`s father had connections to Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of JFK. That put a bit of a damper on the bromance ultimately culminating in Cruz`s epic non-endorsement at the Republican convention.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

George W. Bush

I had watched Dad climb into the biggest arena and succeed. I wanted to find out if I had what it took to join him.

George W. Bush

I inherited half my father's friends and all his enemies

George W. Bush

Americans to bow our heads in humility before our Heavenly Father, a God who calls us not to judge our neighbors, but to love them, to ask His guidance upon our nation and its leaders in every level of government.

George Steinbrenner

As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.

George Steinbrenner

My best and worst boss was the same man - my father. He never - and I mean never - took 'I can't' for an answer. He taught me the value system that, to this day, I have continued to practice.

George Steiner

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

George Orwell

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors... Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.

George Orwell

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

George Orwell

Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.

George R. R. Martin

All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes

George R. R. Martin

Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why.

George R. R. Martin

She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her.

George R. R. Martin

Let him grow taller,she asked the gods.Let him know sixteen, and twenty, and fifty. Let him grow as tall as his father, and hold his own son in his arms. Please, please, please.

George R. R. Martin

His sister liked to think of herself as Lord Tywin with teats, but she was wrong. Their father had been as relentless and implacable as a glacier, where Cercei was all wildfire, especially when thwarted.

George R. R. Martin

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.