Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. K. Rowling

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

J. K. Rowling

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

H. L. Mencken

The worshiper is the father of the gods.

H. L. Mencken

Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.

Guillaume Apollinaire

One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.

Guillaume Apollinaire

We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.

Guillermo del Toro

You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.

Guillermo del Toro

If at age 10 I say there are monsters in the basement and they don't believe it, I would have stayed in that house. My father would have said "Shut up and get to your room." So I thought the only sanctioned tyranny in the world is parenthood and everybody goes "Yeah." It's a dictatorship - parenthood.

Greg Iles

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels,

Grace Jones

My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.

Grace Paley

People say, "Why do you call your kids up, why do you worry like that?" And I say, "I was raised like that." My grandmother looked at my father with the same eyes when he was sixty and she was eighty-five.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Life doesn't come with an instruction book; that's why we have fathers.

Grant Morrison

It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.

George Herbert

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

Georg Baselitz

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

Jessica Simpson

If I'm going for advice for anything in my life, I go straight to my father because he has the answers.

Jennie Garth

When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands.

Jennifer Aniston

I'd love to say I'm an accomplished cook, but I don't have any signature dishes. I'm good at breakfast -- I make great eggs. My father gave me a little recipe. It's all in the seasoning. But it's a Greek secret. I won't give it away!

Jean-Paul Marat

It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.

Glenn Turner

I met my wife [Sukhinder Kaur Gill] in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a great old term, 'courting’. And we had to do it quietly, of course, because you would know the difficulties one might have with Indian parents. She was advised by her father that people in the West don't take marriage seriously.

Gloria Allred

As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks.

Gloria Estefan

The reason I'm not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to America, joined the Army, fought in Vietnam - and was exposed to Agent Orange. He died a slow, horrible death. Music was my escape.

Gloria Estefan

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Gloria Estefan

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Gloria Estefan

We seal our fate with the choices we make.

Gertrude Stein

Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,Can circumvent or hinder or controlThe firm resolve of a determined soul.Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great;All things give way before it soon or late.What obstacle can stay the mighty forceOf the sea seeking river in its course,Or cause the ascending orb of day to wait?

Francois Arnaud

I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One should treat one's fate as one does one's health; enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.