Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Austin Green

My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.

Brian Andreas

Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.

Brendan Coyle

I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

Brad Meltzer

Our fathers never leave us. Ever.

Brad Meltzer

...as your father, my instinct is to protect you ... Other people will want to protect you too. But remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget the prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.

Brad Meltzer

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Brad Pitt

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

Brad Pitt

My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'

Brad Pitt

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

Jane Fonda

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

Jane Fonda

How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?

Jane Fonda

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.

Jane Fonda

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

Jan Hus

O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed.

Jamie Bell

I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

Jamie Dimon

My father and grandfather were stockbrokers, and they would actually take stock certificates from a vault, give it to a runner, and send it to another vault. Then somebody said, "Let's digitize it and have one vault." Now the DTCC clears and settles almost everything, and the cost of doing a trade is a tenth of what it was before.

Ally Carter

She looked at him and shook her head, smiled a litle as she told him, "You are so like your father." Then she looked past me and Zach, past Bex and Abby, to where Agent Townsend sttod by the door with his arms crossed. "What do you think, Townsend, darling? Isn't he just like you?" She looked at Zach again. "I think he's just like you." And then she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.

Juvenal

To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

James E. Faust

I have been grateful for the influence of my grandmother and my grandfather in my life. I remember my grandmother as a queenly woman. My father could be stern, and my grandparents would remind him that we were just boys.

James E. Faust

We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.

Camille Paglia

Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.

Camille Paglia

Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

Bruno Schulz

In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.

Carl Hiaasen

Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but sometimes there's a fine line between courage and stupidity.

Carl Jung

To make what fate intends for me my own intention

Carl Jung

Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate.

Carl Jung

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

Carl Jung

That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.

Carl Jung

No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep .

Carl Jung

The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed. Essentially, therefore, it is a mythological figure. . . . In each of these images there is a little piece of human psychology and human fate, a remnant of the joys and sorrows that have been repeated countless times in our ancestral history. . . .

Carl Jung

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

Carl Jung

The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity.

Carl Jung

It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail