Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Jung

That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.

Carl Jung

What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.

Calvin Trillin

It was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be.

Calvin Trillin

Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States.

Calvin Trillin

Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.

Darryl Sutter

Wow. That's pretty neat. That is weird. Maybe there's some fate there.

Billy Long

No one could reach Amy Winehouse before it was too late. Can anyone reach Washington before it's too late? Both addicted - same fate?

Billy Sherwood

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

Bill O'Reilly

The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not?

Bill Nighy

I'm not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don't need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who's been a father would be able to act.

Bill Nye

My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.

Bill O'Reilly

The Founding Fathers set up a system that heavily relied upon self-reliance and competition, with only a small dose of government intrusion.

Bill Moyers

The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of wealth " are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined.

Bill Moyers

Reagan 's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for the robber barons. It is posed abstractly as the freedom of the individual from government control a Jeffersonian ideal at the roots of our Bill of Rights, to be sure. But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.

Bertrand Piccard

My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.

Bertolt Brecht

The fate of man is man.

Bertrand Russell

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

Bernard Cornwell

Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).

Bernard Baruch

I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it.

Chad Michael Murray

I idolize my father. I mean, he has worked so hard in his life.

Chang-Rae Lee

Obviously loss of family is huge and critical, but I think really it's more about losing a sense of family. The horror of that kind of incompleteness. Writing this book, I tried not to think about my father, which does no one any good fictionally. I did try to imagine not just the horror of that moment, but the horror of having witnessed it, and the lifelong void. And I think that's what's so frightening.

Chaim Potok

It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.

Chaim Weizmann

The hopes of Europe's six million Jews are centered on emigration. I was asked, 'Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?' I replied, 'No'....From the depths of the tragedy I want to save two million young people...The old ones will pass. They will bear their fate or they will not. They were dust, economic and moral dust in a cruel world...Only the branch of the young shall survive...They have to accept it.

Charles Rangel

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

Charles Rangel

My father was absolutely no good.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of events however we may vary the particular circumstances which precede the event.

Charles Manson

My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.

Charles Manson

Just give me my rights. All I want is the same rights that my fathers died for If I don't deserve no rights, then who does deserve rights? I didn't break no law.

Charles Ives

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife

Bob Saget

My father once told me, and it's stuck with me to this day: As you walk through life, every time you fart it pushes you forward.

Birch Bayh

People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.

Bipasha Basu

I actually wanted to be a doctor. But doing all those horrid rat dissections made me faint. I studied science till the 12th standard and later took up commerce. I was planning to do chartered accountancy, but fate had something else in store for me.

Bill Maher

My father was a news guy, you know, he was in radio news. And so that was sort of in my DNA. It was something we talked about at the dinner table when I was a kid.