Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mukesh Ambani

In my father's language: "To create something out of nothing." That possibility exists in India even in old-world sectors like agriculture.

Mukesh Ambani

My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.

Murray Kempton

The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems as often attendant upon reality as being in company is attendant upon the flight from reality.

Kelly Slater

Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently its the most difficult thing in the world.

Kelly Slater

Fatherhood isn't always a planned thing, but when it happens you just do it. It's very natural and in that sense it's not really difficult.

Keegan-Michael Key

I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.

Katherine Paterson

I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.

Kate Burton

I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

Kate Bush

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. He was really a hugely encouraging force to me when I was little.

Kate DiCamillo

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

Kate DiCamillo

Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.

Kate DiCamillo

But still, here are the words Despereaux Tilling spoke to his father. He said, "I forgive you, Pa!" And he said those words because he sensed that it was the only way to save his heart, to stop it from breaking in two. Despereaux, reader, spoke those words to save himself.

Karen Thompson Walker

I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end.

Karen Thompson Walker

I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years. Once in awhile, a letter does fall behind a post office desk and lie there for years before it's finally discovered and delivered to the rightful address. The seemingly brain-dead sometimes wake up and start talking. I'm always on the lookout for proof that what is done can sometimes be undone.

Karen Traviss

Gar taldin ni jaonyc; gar sa buir, ori'wadaasla. (Nobody cares who your father was, only the father you'll be.) - Mandalorian saying

Keith Urban

Everyday I see a little more of my father in me..

Keith Richards

My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.

Keith Richards

In fact, I take the view that God, in his infinite wisdom, didn't bother to spring for two joints - heaven and hell. They're the same place, but heaven is when you get everything you want and you meet Mummy and Daddy and your best friends and you all have a hug and a kiss and play your harps. Hell is the same place - no fire and brimstone - but they all pass by and don't see you. There's nothing, no recognition. You're waving, "It's me, your father," but you're invisible. You're on a cloud, you've got your harp, but you can't play with nobody because they don't see you. That's hell.

Jack Kenny

Daniel's father is of the more conservative wing of the church, not really in favor of gay marriage.

The numbers look great but it doesn't seal the fate on having no increase in rates next week. It seems to be there are still some upside risks to inflation pressures.

That's sort of a day-to-day thing. The idea last night was not to overly fatigue him in one stretch, and also not sit him out for too long where he tightened up.

It's incomprehensible. Kathleen and my father had the most loving relationship. They never fought.

Ron Reagan

Every once in a while someone will make the mistake ... of invoking my father in some way that they have really no right to do. ... I'll tolerate it up to a point, but after a point it's like, I'm going to shut this down right now.

They gave me all they can give me. Then they ran out of gas. I only have five good players, and the rest are freshman. Fatigue is always going to be a factor.

They feared that the same fate awaited them.

Dale Jarrett

This pretty much seals our fate in regards to making the Chase. We went for so long this season without having issues like this. I guess we're due.

Dale Jarrett

This pretty much seals our fate in regards to making the Chase, ... We went for so long this season without having issues like this. I guess we're due.

Aidan Quinn

I want to do a lot more roles like I did in 'This Is My Father,'

Jennifer Garner

I want to be funny. I want to be like a huge fat old man and stuff like that, ... Now is the time to do stuff that's fun.

Kaspar Hauser

I want to be a knight, as my father was.

Charles Manson

I started, 'In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit ... '

Patti Smith

It walked up to me and I took off running and went and called my father and said you've got to see this and help me.

I've had a varied background. My father taught me a valuable lesson, to have as many different experiences as you can.