Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harper Lee

Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.

Harper Lee

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

Harper Lee

My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He has absolutely no ego drive, and so he is one of the most beloved men in this part of the state.

Harper Lee

Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.

Gregory David Roberts

If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

Gregory David Roberts

Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do

Homer

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Homer

It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.

Hope Solo

In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father.

Honeysuckle Weeks

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.

Honor Blackman

My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Times change, people change, thought and feeling take new shapes, put on fresh garments, sons bow their heads unwillingly to that which enraptured their fathers.

Ignatius of Antioch

The Lord did nothing either of himself or through his apostles without his Father, with whom he is united; so too, you should undertake nothing without the bishop and the presbyters priests.

Ignatius of Loyola

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

Ian Somerhalder

Whether that expansion is towards the beings around you or flora, fauna, and creatures. Love has so many unique yet consistent forms. People like Branson - he's an idea guru. Guys like Allan Savory - he's like Father Earth. Allan has literally discovered how to stop desertification and make Africa come alive with plant life. In each of its forms, love has an infinite scope of potential expansion, all of which I see leading to growth.

Iain Duncan Smith

In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.

Ian Anderson

Oh father high in heaven - smile down upon your sonWho's busy with his money games - his women and his gun.

Hugo Black

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

Huey Newton

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

Howard Hughes

My father told me, never have partners.

Howard Gardner

No individual can be in full control of his fate-our strengths come significantly from our history, our experiences largely from the vagaries of chance. But by seizing the opportunity to leverage and frame these experiences, we gain agency over them. And this heightened agency, in turn, places us in a stronger position to deal with future experiences, even as it may alter our own sense of strengths and possibilities.

Horace

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

Horace

Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names.

Horace

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

Horace

Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.

Hank Aaron

[My father] didn't make much money, and I tell a lot of people, you know, I was a vegetarian before people knew what a vegetarian was. That's all I ate was vegetables.

Hannah Arendt

It is obvious: if you do not accept something that assumes the form of ‘destiny,’ you not only change its ‘natural laws’ but also the laws of the enemy playing the role of fate.

Jack Klugman

He told me the show always made his father laugh, particularly at a time when laughter was necessary in his life. Meetings like that keep you on the road for a long time,

He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

Joe Girardi

He said, 'Joe, you're ready to manage. Go,' ... That meant a lot to me, because it was like a father telling his son he was ready for the world.

Joe Girardi

He said, 'Joe, you're ready to manage. Go,' ... That meant a lot to me, because it was like a father telling his son he was ready for the world.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?