Famous Quotes & Sayings

Germaine Greer

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.

I don't think his father is talking to him anymore. And I don't think he's talking to his father.

Sven Eriksson

I don't travel around the world with a school class, I'm not a school-teacher or the father of a Sunday School.

I felt like I lost a father figure. We spent so much time together that I really feel like I lost a parent. Mr. Stephens gave me so many opportunities, and being at the Masters just won't be the same without him being around.

Liev Schreiber

I did everything that my father did in trying to find him because I didn't live with him,

Lykke Li

I don't feel Swedish. In fact, my father tells me to get out of here as soon as I can.

Cameron Mathison

Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.

Cameron Diaz

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

C. S. Lewis

I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them.... I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

C. S. Lewis

It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.

C. S. Lewis

We want not so much a Father but a grandfather in heaven, a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?

C. S. Lewis

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]

Calvin Coolidge

We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. ... If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it.

Calvin Coolidge

As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them.

Burt Reynolds

You're not a man until your father says you're a man.

Celina Jade

My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films.

At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

Alafair Burke

Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.

Al Franken

If we have George W. Bush as president, we're going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.

Charles Kettering

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

Charles Kingsley

And how high is Christ's cross? As high as the highest heaven, and the throne of God, and the bosom of the Father that bosom out of which forever proceed all created things. Ay, as high as the highest heaven! for if you will receive it when Christ hung upon the cross, heaven came down on earth, and earth ascended into heaven.

Braylon Edwards

Some fathers and sons don't get along that well when they're younger because they can't find a way to reach each other, ... A father loves you dearly but you don't see it and so you're always trying to please your father, but your father doesn't let you know how he feels, which is, you don't have to please him because he already loves you.

Bono

The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don't like it, actually.

Barry Goldwater

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

Barack Obama

I actually think, when you're young, ambitions are somewhat common - you want to prove yourself. It may grow out of different life experiences. You may want to prove that you are worthy of the admiration of the demanding father. You may want to prove that you are worthy of the love of an absent father.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its own feet by teaching men to use their brains in place whereof the Bible, on the one hand, and Aristotle, on the other, had previously served.

Arjun Rampal

Born in Jabalpur, I was brought up in Deolali, where my father ran a small business of making fire extinguishers.

Aristophanes

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

Antonio Davis

I don't think I'll be playing again. I'm very content and happy, doing the types of things I haven't gotten to do, be a father.

Antonio Gramsci

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Antonio Porchia

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

Anzia Yezierska

I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.

Anzia Yezierska

Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.