Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Fowler

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.

Jim Fowler

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

Jerry Lewis

When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you',

Jerry Lawler

Paul Bearer is so fat, he has his own gravitational pull!

Jeremy Irons

Could a father not marry his son?

Jennifer Grant

At some level it's still hard for me to admit that my father died. I can talk about it and around it, but those two words. 'He died.' What can that possibly mean? That I won't get to hear his voice again?

Jennifer Hudson

If it’s meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down.

Jeff Buckley

I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.

Jeff Buckley

Fate is gonna find you in your glass of champagne.

Jeff Cooper

All the people constitute the militia - according to the Founding Fathers. Therefore every able-bodied man has a duty under the Constitution to become part of the "well-regulated" militia, specifically to understand and perform well with the individual weapon currently issued to the regular establishment. . . . Thus one who has not qualified himself with the M-16 may not be considered to be a responsible citizen.

Jeff Bridges

One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.

Jeff Bridges

My father Lloyd Bridges was very versatile in his parts, but he had a hit in the '60s 'Sea Hunt,' where he played a skin diver. And he was so into that role that people actually thought he was a skin-diver.

Jeff Bridges

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.

Jean-Paul Sartre

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Jean-Paul Sartre

What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?

Georges Duhamel

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

George Weinberg

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.

George S. Patton

Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate , because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy.

Jeff Raikes

One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.

Jean-Claude Juncker

My father was a steel worker and Martin's [Schulz] grandfather was a miner in Saarland. In these occupations, there is a particular awareness of solidarity. That creates links that aren't present in other relationships.

Jean Paul

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

Jim Hightower

Founders v. Bush brings the wisdom and eloquence of the Founding Fathers back to the people, while unmasking the fraudulent PR machine that is corrupting their words and stealing our legacy.

Jim Harrison

Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.

Jerry Spinelli

Ironic," Betty Lou said at last. "The cereus insists on sunlight---that's why it must be at the end of the yard. And yet it saves its flowers for the moon. The sun never sees what it fathers." It takes from the day," I said, "gives to the night.

Eminem

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

Javier Bardem

But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.

Jasper Fforde

Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.

Jasper Fforde

Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

Jason Momoa

I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you - my father taught me.

Hippocrates

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Hillary Clinton

I can only say that I'm certainly relieved that my late father never did business with Donald Trump. He provided a good middle-class life for us, but the people he worked for, he expected the bargain to be kept on both sides.

Hillary Clinton

My father loved to complain about big business and big government, but we had a solid middle class upbringing. We had good public schools. We had accessible health care. We had our little, you know, one-family house that, you know, he saved up his money, didn't believe in mortgages.

Hillary Clinton

I have a different experience. My father was a small-businessman. He worked really hard. He printed drapery fabrics on long tables, where he pulled out those fabrics and he went down with a silkscreen and dumped the paint in and took the squeegee and kept going.