Famous Quotes & Sayings

Quintilian

Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.

Quintilian

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

Quentin Crisp

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Primo Levi

Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the fate of others, since it is already so difficult to navigate one's own.

Prince Charles

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

Plutarch

Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions.

Plutarch

Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.

Plutarch

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Plutarch

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Pico Iyer

You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.

Phoebe Cary

Father, perfect my trust;Let my spirit feel in death,That her feet are firmly setOn the rock of a living faith!

Pope John XXIII

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Mickey Kaus

My father was not a political animal.

Mickey Kaus

My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.

Naveen Jain

Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.

Mother Teresa

Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Mother Teresa

Christ came to be Father's compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you are the only one who can do efficient work, work worth showing. This makes you harsh in your judgment of others who may not have the same talents. Do your best and trust that others do their best. And be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Jimmy Buffett

Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim of fate.

Jim Sensenbrenner

In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.

Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.

Joanna Baillie

My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

George MacDonald

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

George MacDonald

It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by bowing the neck to the yoke of the Father's will. There can be no other rest for heart and soul than He has created. From every burden, from every anxiety, from all dread of shame or loss, even loss of love itself, that yoke will set us free.

George MacDonald

Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.

George MacDonald

O Christ, my life, possess me utterly. Take me and make a little Christ of me. If I am anything but thy father's son, 'Tis something not yet from the darkness won. Oh, give me light to live with open eyes. Oh, give me life to hope above all skies.

George MacDonald

And in thy own sermon, thou That the sparrow falls dost allow, It shall not cause me any alarm; For neither so comes the bird to harm, Seeing our Father, thou hast said, Is by the sparrow's dying bed; Therefore it is a blessed place, And the sparrow in high grace.

George MacDonald

In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.

George MacDonald

Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

George MacDonald

Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and lowly, bearing with gladness the yoke of His Father's will. This in the one, the only right, the only possible way of freeing them from their sin, the cause of their unrest.

George MacDonald

This is and has been the Father's work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.

George MacDonald

He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.

George Kennedy

My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.

Emanuel Celler

My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?