Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brennan Manning

Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is not moody or capricious; He knows no seasons of change. He has a single relentless stance toward us: He loves us. He is the only G-d man has ever heard of who loves sinners. False gods- the gods of human manufacturing- despise sinners, but the Father of (Yeshua) loves all, no matter what they do.

Brennan Manning

Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.

Brennan Manning

Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father's active goodness and unrestricted love.

Bruce Springsteen

I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts.

Bruce Springsteen

In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.

Brian Jacques

I fell, you see. Trod on my abbot, Father Habit. Oh, dear! I mean...

Brian Austin Green

My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.

Brian Andreas

Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.

Brendan Coyle

I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

Brad Meltzer

Our fathers never leave us. Ever.

Brad Meltzer

...as your father, my instinct is to protect you ... Other people will want to protect you too. But remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget the prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.

Brad Meltzer

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Brad Pitt

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

Brad Pitt

My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'

Brad Pitt

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

Jane Fonda

Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

Jane Fonda

How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?

Jane Fonda

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.

Jane Fonda

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

Jan Hus

O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed.

Jamie Bell

I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

Jamie Dimon

My father and grandfather were stockbrokers, and they would actually take stock certificates from a vault, give it to a runner, and send it to another vault. Then somebody said, "Let's digitize it and have one vault." Now the DTCC clears and settles almost everything, and the cost of doing a trade is a tenth of what it was before.

Ally Carter

She looked at him and shook her head, smiled a litle as she told him, "You are so like your father." Then she looked past me and Zach, past Bex and Abby, to where Agent Townsend sttod by the door with his arms crossed. "What do you think, Townsend, darling? Isn't he just like you?" She looked at Zach again. "I think he's just like you." And then she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.

Juvenal

To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

James E. Faust

I have been grateful for the influence of my grandmother and my grandfather in my life. I remember my grandmother as a queenly woman. My father could be stern, and my grandparents would remind him that we were just boys.

James E. Faust

We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.

Candice Bergen

I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Alanis Morissette

Oh these little rejections how they add up quickly, one small sideways look and I feel so ungood. Somewhere along the way I think I gave you the power to make me feel the way I thought only my father could.

Blair Underwood

I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.

Blaise Pascal

Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

Billy Bob Thornton

I can't imagine laying a finger on my kids. I go the other way and probably because my father was so abusive.