Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

Joe Wright

My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.

Joe Torre

My father wasn't the best role model to me.

Joaquin Miller

Merciful Father, I will not complain. I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain.

Jo Nesbo

My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'

Jo Brand

Inside every fat person there's a thin person looking to get out - They've just eaten them

Jimmy Carter

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn't think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

Jimmy Carter

Our individual fates are linked our futures intertwined

John C. Reilly

Being a father has fulfilled me in parts of my life that sustain me. It gives me a comfort and patience. All actors have this hole inside that they're trying to fill by performing. I'm anxious to keep creating, but I'm not so desperate any more because I have the love and support of my kids and wife.

Oscar Wilde

The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.

Mahatma Gandhi

What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana.

James Taylor

I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.

James Surowiecki

Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families.

James Packer

My father used to think the word 'legend' was tossed around far too often. I want to say today that in the opinion of his family, my father was a legend.

James Packer

I am here to tell you my father was right. You are a raging f..kwit. Now f..k off.

James Packer

If I sat back and decided to sell the product of my father and my grandfather's work, like a leech, you know I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror... I want to be able to look at my father in 10 years' time and say, 'I'm proud of you, and you should be proud of me.'

James Patterson

Not saving you from this storm, mutant,” he said. “Saving you for your later fate, we are.” His voice was weirdly inflected and metallic, like an automated answering machine. “Oh, good. Yoda captured us,” Fang whispered.

James Meredith

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

James McAvoy

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.

James Macdonald

The marquee scrolling across our minds trying to reinterpret life reads: "God-Against-Us." This becomes the dominant lens through which our flesh interprets life. We no longer give our loving Father the benefit of the doubt. Instead, we view every event as conclusive proof that God is against us.

Novak Djokovic

My father believed in me many times more than I believed in myself.

Novak Djokovic

My father never talked about the sacrifices that the family made for me.

Novak Djokovic

We spent all day travelling, living away from the people you love, not sleep in our own bed ... We are far from our own houses. We live in hotels, clubs. And now that I am a father it is much more difficult.

Novak Djokovic

My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.

Novalis

Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.

Emile M. Cioran

To have committed every crime but that of being a father.

Ellen Goodman

My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he didn't use the word "jerk."

Ellen G. White

In consequence of our limited ideas of the sufferings of Christ, we place a low estimate upon the great work of the atonement. The glorious plan of man's salvation was brought about through the infinite love of God the Father. In this divine plan is seen the most marvelous manifestation of the love of God to the fallen race.

Ellen G. White

God Himself was crucified with Christ, for Christ was one with the Father.

Ellen G. White

Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.

Epicurus

A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.