Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Ellen Chase

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

Patricia Briggs

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.

Patricia Briggs

He'd woken up after flying from Boston to Montana to find his da cooking breakfast for them: sausage and pancakes shaped like deer. It wasn't just any deer, either - they looked like Bambi from the disney cartoon. Charles didn't want to know how his father had managed that

Patricia Briggs

My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.

Pablo Neruda

The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and the mouth. Farther away and nearer still, still it came from dead fathers and from wondering races, from lands which had turned to stone, lands weary of their poor tribes, for when grief took to the roads the people set out and arrived and married new land and water to grow their words again. And so this is the inheritance; this is the wavelength which connects us with dead men and the dawning of new beings not yet come to light.

P. J. O'Rourke

African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.

Plato

All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

Paula Danziger

I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues

Paula Danziger

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

Paul Zane Pilzer

It is thus hardly surprising that so many of the great minds in recent history have concerned themselves with economic matters. Indeed, they have come to regard economic theory in precisely the same way the ancient philosophers viewed the heavens - as the key to understanding and controlling our fate.

Paula Fox

My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.

Mary E. Pearson

How can you be sure?" "I'm a doctor, Jenna. And a scientist." "Does that make you an authority on everything? What about a soul, Father? When you were so busy implanting all your neural chips, did you think about that? Did you snip my soul from my old body, too? Where did you put it? Show me! Where? Where in all this groundbreaking technology did you insert my soul?

Mary E. Pearson

Father says it will come in time. “Time heals,” he says. I don’t tell him that I don’t know what time is.

Martin Schulz

Refugees cost us money too when they come to us. If we improve their living conditions in Turkey, we create an incentive for them to stay there and not to place their fates in the hands of smugglers.

Martin Sheen

No father could ever be prouder of his son. I hold Charlie's accomplishments dearer than my own. He has been through so much and overcome so much more. Even if he weren't my son he'd still be my best friend.

Martin Sheen

We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)

Lech Walesa

I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.

LeBron James

My favorite thing about being a father is just seeing my kids grow and do some of the same things that I did when I was a kid, man.

Laurie Lee

We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.

Philip Roth

--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others

Philip Roth

It's absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always trying to tell me how to be a man, and he said to me, I was maybe 9, and he said to me, 'Philip, whenever you take a nap, take your clothes off, put a blanket on you, and you're going to sleep better.' Well, as with everything, he was right. ... Then the best part of it is that when you wake up, for the first 15 seconds, you have no idea where you are. You're just alive. That's all you know. And it's bliss, it's absolute bliss.

Philip James Bailey

Fulfill thy fate! Be-do-bear-and thank God.

Philip James Bailey

Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity.

Peter Diamandis

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

Peter De Vries

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

Peter B. Lewis

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.

Peter Agre

I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.

Paulo Coelho

You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.

Paulo Coelho

Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.

Marlee Matlin

During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was not responding to sounds, my father was absolutely convinced that I was simply being stubborn.

Marlo Thomas

My father (Danny Thomas) used to tell me there are two kinds of people, the takers and the givers. 'The takers sometimes eat better,' he would say, 'but the givers always sleep better.'

Marlene Dietrich

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.