Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harper Lee

My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He has absolutely no ego drive, and so he is one of the most beloved men in this part of the state.

Harper Lee

Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.

Gregory David Roberts

If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

Gregory David Roberts

Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do

Homer

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Homer

It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.

Hope Solo

In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father.

Honeysuckle Weeks

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.

Honor Blackman

My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Times change, people change, thought and feeling take new shapes, put on fresh garments, sons bow their heads unwillingly to that which enraptured their fathers.

Ignatius of Antioch

The Lord did nothing either of himself or through his apostles without his Father, with whom he is united; so too, you should undertake nothing without the bishop and the presbyters priests.

Ignatius of Loyola

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

Ian Somerhalder

Whether that expansion is towards the beings around you or flora, fauna, and creatures. Love has so many unique yet consistent forms. People like Branson - he's an idea guru. Guys like Allan Savory - he's like Father Earth. Allan has literally discovered how to stop desertification and make Africa come alive with plant life. In each of its forms, love has an infinite scope of potential expansion, all of which I see leading to growth.

Iain Duncan Smith

In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.

Ian Anderson

Oh father high in heaven - smile down upon your sonWho's busy with his money games - his women and his gun.

Hugo Black

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

Huey Newton

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

Howard Hughes

My father told me, never have partners.

Howard Gardner

No individual can be in full control of his fate-our strengths come significantly from our history, our experiences largely from the vagaries of chance. But by seizing the opportunity to leverage and frame these experiences, we gain agency over them. And this heightened agency, in turn, places us in a stronger position to deal with future experiences, even as it may alter our own sense of strengths and possibilities.

Horace

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

Horace

Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names.

Horace

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Horace

I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine.

Horace

Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.

Hank Aaron

[My father] didn't make much money, and I tell a lot of people, you know, I was a vegetarian before people knew what a vegetarian was. That's all I ate was vegetables.

Hannah Arendt

It is obvious: if you do not accept something that assumes the form of ‘destiny,’ you not only change its ‘natural laws’ but also the laws of the enemy playing the role of fate.

Hannah Arendt

if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.

Gore Vidal

I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time.

Gore Vidal

Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica of the Roman or Venetian republics. They didn't even like the etymology of the word "democracy."

Gore Vidal

Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, "I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any." We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.

Gore Vidal

Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.

Gore Vidal

Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us that the totalitarian society is grounded upon the concept of God the father. One paternal god, one paternal leader. Authority is absolute.

Gore Vidal

When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my father was in Roosevelt's Cabinet, this is not the class that produces writers or reflective people.