Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Wahlberg

This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.

Marianne Faithfull

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

Marianne Faithfull

My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.

Miguel de Unamuno

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

Naomi Campbell

I've never made an excuse of not knowing my father, because I've had great people in my life.

Naomi Mitchison

Of course there were areas of safety; nothing could get at me if I curled up on my father's lap, holding his ear with one thumb tucked into it... All about him was safe.

Naomi Klein

So we are left with a stark choice: allow climate disruption to change everything about our world, or change pretty much everything about our economy to avoid that fate. But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

Mitchell Kapor

Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.

Mitt Romney

Our example - and commitment - to freedom has changed the world. But along with the genius of our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, and our Bill of Rights, is the equal genius of our economic system. Our Founding Fathers endeavored to create a moral and just society like no other in history, and out of that grew a moral and just economic system the likes of which the world had never seen. Our freedom, what it means to be an American, has been defined and sustained by the liberating power of the free enterprise system.

Mike Powell

I think I was around 10 or 11 years of age when I got my first guitar, but I can remember being as young as 3 or 4 watching my father jam on acoustic to his favorite rush and Jimmy Hendrix albums so I have always been around music.

R. C. Sproul

The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction so that sinners might be saved with no sacrifice of God’s justice.

R. D. Laing

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

R. C. Sproul

The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.

R. C. Sproul

The idea of being the Substitute in offering an atonement to satisfy the demands of God’s law for others was something Christ understood as His mission from the moment He entered this world and took upon Himself a human nature. He came from heaven as the gift of the Father for the express purpose of working out redemption as our Substitute, doing for us what we could not possibly do for ourselves.

R. Buckminster Fuller

If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.

Psy

In Korea, it's a tradition to inherit your father's business. Unfortunately, I'm the only son in the entire family, so they were forcing too much.

Princess Diana

[On the birth of son William:] Thank goodness he hasn't got ears like his father.

Publilius Syrus

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

Preston Manning

As a result of listening to Aberhart, my father decided to leave the farm in 1927 to study at Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, Aberhart's training school.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Capital dictates the fate of humanity.

Pranab Mukherjee

I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.

Piers Anthony

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

Nelson Mandela

It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism, to conduct discussions as if he or she is a schoolmaster talking to less informed and inexperienced learners.

Nelson Mandela

It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to their own subjective canon.

Nelson Mandela

I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.

Nelson Mandela

I thank whatever gods may be / For my unconquerable soul. / I am the master of my fate / I am the captain of my soul.

Nelson Mandela

To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.

Kresley Cole

Fate has a way of getting what she wants, no matter how we try to avoid it.

Kris Allen

If you become a father, you're not doing things for yourself anymore. You're thinking about someone else. And that is not a burden.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

My father was a brew master. He was the one who I was very close to, he influenced me in many many ways including my pursuing a career as a brew master.

Oprah Winfrey

My father turned my life around insisting I be more than I was and by believing I could be more.

Oliver Hudson

Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.

Oliver Hudson

You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.