Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Kerouac

He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence

Jack Anderson

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

Jack Baker

Every dad, if he takes time out of his busy life to reflect upon his fatherhood, can learn ways to become an even better dad.

J. Courtney Sullivan

She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and musty page of sheet much, and yet wishing she were anywhere else on earth, free of it all.

J. Courtney Sullivan

Timing was everything when it came to being a woman—the moment you entered the world could seal your fate.

J. C. Ryle

The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place - but sinners after all.

If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?

Isaac Watts

To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Be honour, praise, and glory given By all on earth, and all in heaven.

Isabel Allende

My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.

Douglas MacArthur

By profession I am a Soldier and take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father

Chris Ferguson

His main contribution is he touched the lives of so many young men and a few women as a father figure and a mentor.

His father was a post player; he's a skill player. He can play multiple positions, and he can shoot the basketball.

Nastassja Kinski

But yet there is no perfect father or mother.

But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

Will Carleton

But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate,When we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.

George Archer

because the hole is down in the ground, not up in the air. My father always told me, 'You ought to play basketball, where the hole is way up there.'

Harrison Ford

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

Hannah Storm

My fathers peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

Guy Maddin

I am no longer haunted by my dead father. I am no longer haunted by childhood home. There's so many things I've cured myself of without realising and now when I'm embark on a project I know I'm going to cure myself of it.

Guy Kawasaki

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.

Greg Fitzsimmons

My father told me when I first started that standup is exciting and I should pursue it, but that writing would be the thing that would give me power over my career. I never have to take a road gig or a writing gig I don't want because I always have the ability to play one against the other.

Graeme Simsion

Our first relationship with a male is with our fathers. It affects how we relate to men forever.

Glenn Ford

We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development.

Gio Gonzalez

My curveball is a blessing. My father taught it to me. He felt that it was a pitch he wanted me to learn, right on the side of the house, and it just ended up working. I never asked what the tricks were, or anything like that.

Gina Rinehart

My father's vision was to see the Pilbara developed in a way that would benefit his beloved north, and West Australia and he wanted to see Australia become a stronger economy benefiting from the development of our north. His life was spent pursuing that vision.

Gerry Spence

Skepticism, not cleanliness, is next to godliness. Skepticism is the father of freedom. It is like the pry that holds open the door for truth to slip in.

Harold Evans

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

Gwyneth Paltrow

We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.

Gwyneth Paltrow

When we're home sometimes, she'll put on mascara. And sometimes I'll let her wear something out to dinner - but just a little dab. Also having a father who adores you the way that he adores her is very good for your body image. The more we can love her and let her be who she is, the more confident she'll feel.

I'm very happy to be receiving it. It's a great honor. I'm looking forward to going and I'm glad Father Gary can go with me. It should be a nice time of year to go.

I'm taking Stanley shopping one day. I'm going to teach him how to go to the grocery store and shop because he doesn't understand. And I told him that: Look at the back of cans. Look at fat grams.

Andrew Martin

If our father would not have been a strict disciplinarian, our house would have been Lord of the Flies .

I owe my father a lot of credit. There were many nights when we were at the track running 40s. We worked hard.