Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Conroy

I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

Ludwig von Mises

Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.

Annabella Sciorra

Unlike a movie, you kind of learn things about yourself every week, ... When you get a new script, you find out, oh, I was with the FBI, or oh, my father was this, or oh, this is where I grew up. They can make it up as they go along.

Garrett Temple

Most guys who went through what (Davis) went through hardly live to talk about it. He didn't have a father figure in his life at that time, so my father was that man, to help him out and get him on his feet.

Jay Paterno

You just ignore it. You know you're qualified. I know my father in my situation ... he's not going to hand me a job just because of who I am.

We're really lucky we have John Wright playing the father, and he's wonderful.

William Shakespeare

Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of your youth, examine well your blood, Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice, You can endure the livery of a nun, For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd, To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood, To undergo such maiden pilgrimage; But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.

William Shakespeare

Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.

Baz Luhrmann

My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.

We'd wake up in the morning and there'd be a line of mothers, fathers, grandchildren waiting for us. We knew that we were there to save lives.

William Shakespeare

Tis a happy thing To be the father unto many sons.

William Shakespeare

Withal I did infer your lineaments, Being the right idea of your father, Both in your form and nobleness of mind; Laid open all your victories in Scotland, Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace, Your bounty, virtue, fair humility; Indeed, left nothing fitting for your purpose Untouch'd or slightly handled in discourse.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf.

Paul Reiser

Peter Falk and my father are very much the same.

George Hincapie

One of the reasons I work so hard today is because my father taught me to persevere. I don't think I would be where I am today without his positive influence,

Patricia Kaas

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

Patricia Richardson

Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.

Pete Seeger

My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.

Rene Russo

I didn't have a father growing up, and I was raised with all women, and I didn't really understand men. I thought they were like women, right?

Unfortunately, we saw him reading a statement ... not talking in the loving way in which a father talks which suggests, perhaps, that the statement was written by someone else.

Well, lo and behold, the greatest thing that ever happened in my life, a month later Alvin Cooperman called back and told my father that I had tremendous talent!

I request this release to be as soon as possible as my father is terminally ill and I wish to visit him one last time,

Penny Marshall

My mother was nuts. She was very funny. We got our sense of humor from her. My father had no sense of humor and they yelled at each other.

My mother and father had always supported us. They made it possible to do what we do and she would have wanted that we did this race today, I am sure.

Bill Evans

Mark was like a father figure to me.

Alice Meynell

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

Anne Lamott

My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.

Ann Voskamp

Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.

Andy Pettitte

He (Tommy Pettitte [father] coached me as kid. He bought all the books and videos and tried to learn as much about pitching as he could. But once I was in high school, he never tried to be my coach.

Andy Partridge

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

Alastair Campbell

My aunty says I'm the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I've definitely inherited. And like me, he could be the life and soul of the party, but also quite withdrawn.

Albert Gubay

I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.

Albert Brooks

Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'