Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madeleine L'Engle

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

Lynne Cheney

Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.

Lysette Anthony

I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.

Lysander Spooner

If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them.

Louisa May Alcott

...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.

Louisa May Alcott

Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.

Louisa May Alcott

Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

Louisa May Alcott

I'll try to be what Father loves to call me, a 'little woman,' and not be rough and wild but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else.

Louisa May Alcott

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

Lou Ferrigno

Most pro bodybuilders have bad relationships with their fathers. We want to prove something.

Lou Ferrigno

I've been involved with law enforcement for some time. My father was in law enforcement. I went through the training for Homeland Security. I enjoy it very much.

Lou Ferrigno

I have a lot of anger about my childhood - being hard of hearing and my relationship with my father.

John Green

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

John Green

The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

John Glenn

To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.

John Gay

One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.

John Flanagan

After all, he did say you were the issue of an encounter between your father and a traeling hatcha-hatcha dancer." There was a gasp of horror from the crowd. Duncan, smiling thinly, said through gritted teeth: "Thank you so much for reminding us all, Anthony.

John F. Kennedy

The American presidency will demand more than ringing manifestos issued from the rear of the battle. It will demand that the President place himself in the very thick of the fight; that he care passionately about the fate of the people he leads .

John F. Kennedy

Success has many fathers.

Jonathan Kozol

The rich...should beg the poor to forgive us for the bread we bring them. Healthy people sometimes feel they need to beg forgiveness too, although there is no reason why. Maybe we simply ask forgiveness for not being born where these poor women have been born, knowing that if we lived here too, our fate might well have been the same.

Jonathan Lethem

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

Jonathan Ive

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.

Jonathan Franzen

The figure of my father looms large in my imagination.

Jonathan Franzen

I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers.

Jonathan Cain

I felt my faith was on again off again until I met Paula White, who saw that the Lord had other plans; there was a weightiness to my spirit. She gave me the news that God loved me and wanted his son back. She spoke to the king in me and gave me new hope I could get right with God. The God I had hungered for; the Father I had been missing.

Jon Voight

My father always said, 'Bet on yourself.'

Jon Stewart

Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting the delaration of independence and only realized on July 3rd the Articles were also due.

Jon Stewart

Some would argue that the president himself benefited from a form of affirmative action because as a C student, he only got into Yale because his father was a wealthy alumnus. But the White House counters that Saddam is a menace and must be stopped.

Jon Stewart

The value of holding a grudge. And to always refer to my father sarcastically as Mr. Wonderful.

Jon Stewart

Don't confuse [Father's Day] with Valentine's Day, and here's why. Boy, will you creep him out. I can just tell you from last year, uh, even if they do like chocolate, they don't want it from their son.

Jon Stewart

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.

Katey Sagal

You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.

Kaspar Hauser

I want to be a soldier as my father was.