Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

I am prepared to sit down and listen to their concerns. Where that leads at this point I wouldn't want to fathom a guess,

Julie Burchill

I am not one of those fat birds who feels miserable because models are thin. Frankly, I feel more insulted by the idea that unless I see other fat birds in fashion magazines, I will be reduced to a sniveling wreck of a human being.

Natasha Hamilton

I don't want to tempt fate, but it is going really well,

Mahmoud Abbas

I don't want to talk about whether firing these rockets is important or not, but I wanted to talk about the destructive consequences. No one of us could forget last week's tragedy when a father and his son were killed by a rocket.

Doug Jones

I don't want to have my fate tied to an old, raggedy T-shirt or a pair of underwear.

Hugh Jackman

To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!

Horace Walpole

Of Ickworth's boys, their father's joys, There is but one a bad one; The tenth is he, the parson's fee, And indeed he is a sad one. No love of fame, no sense of shame, And a bad heart, let me tell ye: Without, all brass; within, all ass, And the puppy's name is Felly.

Horace

Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.

Horace

With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.

Horace

Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws. [Lat., Vir bonus est quis? Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]

Homer

Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable

Homer

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.

Homer

Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.

Homer

Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many.

Homer

Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below.

Homer

And not a man appears to tell their fate.

I don't think there's any fat in it. I don't know that there's a lot of room to move this down without compromising programs.

As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers; / From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Chris Ferguson

His main contribution is he touched the lives of so many young men and a few women as a father figure and a mentor.