Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Herbert

Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

Frank Herbert

What is the son but an extension of the father?

Frank Herbert

My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.

Frank Herbert

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

Harold B. Lee

I have faith in the future of this promised land of America and in its institutions of representative government, but more than that, I have faith in you, the youth of America, to build even more securely on the foundations laid by the faith and devotion of your pioneer fathers.

Harold B. Lee

Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and inspiring and directing them.

H. R. Giger

The designs and my credit have been stolen from me, since I alone have designed the Alien. So why does Fox not give me the credit I rightfully earned? As for those responsible for this conspiracy: all I can wish them is an Alien breeding inside their chests, which might just remind them that the Alien father is HR Giger.

Haile Gebrselassie

He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.

Guru Nanak

An adopted son shall never take the family, name and the estate of his natural father, the funeral cake follows the family, name and the estate, the funeral offerings of him who gives ,his son in adoption cease, as far as that son is concerned.

Gus Van Sant

Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized. The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is ananathema to these idiots. I predict that in the near future, right wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.

Gunter Grass

What novel - or what else in the world - can have the epic scope of a photograph album? May our Father in Heaven, the untiring amateur who each Sunday snaps us from above, at an unfortunate angle that makes for hideous foreshortening, and pastes our pictures, properly exposed or not, in his album, guide me safely through this album of mine...

Jim Brown

Even though the money is great and the fame is great, you still have a lot of disenfranchised young men that are participating in the NFL that are not very happy. A lot of them are very bitter. A lot them are very angry. So many of them have had no fathers and no home life, and basically, no education.

Jim Butcher

Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord

Jessica Barth

My father and I used to watch movies all the time. That was our bonding time, so thats when I kind of fell in love with acting.

Jesse Ventura

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

Jesse Ventura

My father used to always say to me that, you know, if a guy goes out to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, they'll give him 10 years, but a guy can do white-collar crime and steal the money of thousands and he'll get probation and a slap on the wrist.

H. G. Wells

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.

Jean Baudrillard

One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of the malicious pleasure of abandoning them to their fate.

Jayne Mansfield

My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.

Jay-Z

We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.

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?

Mo Rocca

Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.

Mo Rocca

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.

Mohamed ElBaradei

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

Mike Quigley

Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's fate - but you can't want to make a film simply for the sake of it.

Kirk Douglas

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.

Kim Wilde

My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.

Kiki Smith

Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.