Famous Quotes & Sayings

Enrique Iglesias

I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.

Eminem

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

Javier Bardem

But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.

Jasper Fforde

Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.

Jasper Fforde

Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

Jason Momoa

I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you - my father taught me.

Hippocrates

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Hillary Clinton

I can only say that I'm certainly relieved that my late father never did business with Donald Trump. He provided a good middle-class life for us, but the people he worked for, he expected the bargain to be kept on both sides.

Hillary Clinton

My father loved to complain about big business and big government, but we had a solid middle class upbringing. We had good public schools. We had accessible health care. We had our little, you know, one-family house that, you know, he saved up his money, didn't believe in mortgages.

Hillary Clinton

I have a different experience. My father was a small-businessman. He worked really hard. He printed drapery fabrics on long tables, where he pulled out those fabrics and he went down with a silkscreen and dumped the paint in and took the squeegee and kept going.

Hillary Clinton

In the 1980s, I was working to reform the schools in Arkansas. Donald Trump was borrowing $14 million from his father to start his businesses. In the 1990s, I went to Beijing and I said women's rights are human rights. He insulted a former Miss Universe, Alicia Machado, called her an eating machine.

Herbert Kaufman

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

Evgeni Plushenko

I think I was born to be a figure skater, I think it was fate, and I thank God for letting it happen.

Evelyn Underhill

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.

Evelyn Waugh

All fates are ‘worse than death’.

Evelyn Waugh

My father and I were never intimate in the sense of my coming to him with confidences or seeking advice. Our relationship was rather that of host and guest. Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

Evelyn Waugh

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

Evelyn Waugh

Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding present, he thanked them for thanking him and there was no end to the exchange but death.

Eva Longoria

I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time.

Evan Esar

After paying for the wedding, about the only thing a father has left to give away is the bride.

Eugene Jarecki

Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mamas boy and he said no, more of a papas boy. At the same time he was willing to say that his father had many shortcomings and needed to be held accountable.

Eugene Jarecki

My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story.

Ivanka Trump

My father has created an enormous business and he's created an enormous brand for himself, and I'm contributing to the business that he's built every day at The Trump Organization

Ivanka Trump

Politicians talk about wage equality, but my father has made it a practice at his company throughout his entire career. He will fight for equal pay for equal work, and I will fight for this too, right alongside of him.

Ivanka Trump

I've never had a sense of entitlement. I saw how hard my father worked for his money, and it was always made very clear to me that things wouldn't just be given to me.

Ivanka Trump

My father represents a very interesting challenge to the Republican party. I think this is taking people by surprise. (But) I think that's why he's so welcomed by the American voters, because they want somebody who says what they are thinking.

Isoroku Yamamoto

The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.

Isabella Rossellini

My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge was available to anybody.

Irwin Shaw

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

Jack Nicklaus

We also play a Father/Son at home and I play with Steve, too. I try to mix it up. We play two or three times a year, but that's about it.

Jack Nicklaus

I play the Father/Son every year on the PGA TOUR Champions. I split it between Jackie and Gary as my playing partners.

Jack Nicholson

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.