Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Costner

The kind of love that these young men have and the respect that they have for their fathers, I don't see that as much in America as you see in the Latino community, and it's really something to behold.

Kevin Costner

I was always listening to my father more than anyone. I was always afraid of my father more than anyone. But there's a moment in time where other men in your life can have a huge impact.

Kathleen Robertson

I'm really into antiques. But really into it because of my father, who got me into them in the first place. He's an interior designer and he's really into going to antique shows and getting up really early on Sundays and driving out to these weird little towns north of Hamilton.

Kathleen Turner

I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

Kathleen Hanna

I'm sure if you see things you wrote when you were 19, you cringe. I saw stuff like angry poetry that I wrote when I was mad at my father, or photos I took where I smeared period blood on myself. It's embarrassing.

Karl Malden

My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.

Jules Verne

The wisest man may be a blind father.

Julia Child

My father was in charge of managing the farm.

Jude Law

I never thought I had to forge a family, but it felt the most natural thing that ever happened to me - meeting someone and becoming a father.

Joseph Joubert

Chance generally favors the prudent.

Joseph Joubert

Fate and necessity are unconquerable.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

May those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Heavenly Father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies, than we are ready to believe or receive.

Knut Hamsun

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

Knut Hamsun

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

Murray Rothbard

John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father.

Moliere

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

Moliere

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Moliere

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.

Moliere

I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.

Mohsin Hamid

The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.

Milton Friedman

The Founding Fathers envisioned a federal government that trusts its people with their money and freedom, outlining this limited, non-intrusive federal government in...the Constitution, leaving the other powers to people...or to the states.

J. K. Rowling

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

J. K. Rowling

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

H. L. Mencken

The worshiper is the father of the gods.

H. L. Mencken

Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.

Guillaume Apollinaire

One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.

Guillaume Apollinaire

We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.

Guillermo del Toro

You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.

Guillermo del Toro

If at age 10 I say there are monsters in the basement and they don't believe it, I would have stayed in that house. My father would have said "Shut up and get to your room." So I thought the only sanctioned tyranny in the world is parenthood and everybody goes "Yeah." It's a dictatorship - parenthood.

Greg Iles

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels,

Grace Jones

My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Life doesn't come with an instruction book; that's why we have fathers.