Famous Quotes & Sayings

But then Mikhail told us something that stunned us even more - the reason the picture was so important to Mikhail was because Sergei was his son. He was stunned to see a picture of me, a new friend of his, with his own son. And I was stunned to find out they were father and son.

But, ... my father listened to his heart, and not to the chorus.

Anupam Kher

I have played 50 different kinds of fathers and villains. Only mediocre actors play the part the same way.

When you go into coaching, the ultimate goal is to make the kids grow into good human beings, fathers and husbands. But there is also the competition. Sometimes my competitiveness was greater than my kids'.

We called it Father Baker's miracle. Miracles don't have to last forever.

Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.

Paul Simon

I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?

Robert Morgan

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

Peter S. Beagle

He had never missed God or the hope of heaven, but he had dearly wanted confession to rest his mind, Communion to let him touch something beyond Father Krone's dry, shaky hand, and holy water to taste like starlight.

Orson Scott Card

Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. And I had only six of my friends to help me, and somehow we managed to defeat him, even though he was naked and wet and alone--Ender Wiggin is so dangerous and terrifying it was all we could do not to bring two hundred.

Orson Scott Card

I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease...

Horace

Though guiltless, you must expiate your fathers' sins.

When my father testified at the trial, ... there was a full-page picture of him on the witness stand, pointing his finger at John Gilbert Graham.

George Brett

My father cared a lot about me, but he never gave me the satisfaction of really knowing it. Hitting .390 wasn't enough for him. Nothing seemed to be. He was not trying to be mean. He was just seeing to it that I never got self-satisfied, that I worked hard to get the most out of what I had.

Kurt Vonnegut

After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?

Kurt Vonnegut

Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!

Kurt Vonnegut

My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’

Kurt Vonnegut

Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.

Vandana Shiva

My personal background is actually very unusual for the kind of career I chose. I didn’t meet anyone who had ever done physics in my life. I grew up in the Himalayan forests. My father was a forest conservator, which meant that if I wasn’t in school I was in the forests with him. That has been very largely responsible for my ecological inclinations.

Vandana Shiva

The Chipko activists have always been close to my parents, since my father was among the few forestry officials who supported them within the bureaucracy. And I was involved with the Chipko movement in my student days.

Vandana Shiva

One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take us before my graduate studies in Canada and finding that the stream I had gone swimming in wasn’t there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.

Damian Williams

We're young, but we're going to be good. Good things are going to happen. We have more talent than a year ago. Brittney has been out because her father passed away Friday.

Madeleine Albright

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

Madeleine Albright

The stunning part was that one time Neil McElroy the Secretary of Defense who was the father of one of our classmates spoke and basically at commencement, he told us all that our job after graduation was to get married and have interesting sons...and we all found that hard to believe.

William Shakespeare

Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain.

William Shakespeare

Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table.

William Shakespeare

O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!

William Shakespeare

You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him!

William Shakespeare

To you your father should be as a god.

William Shakespeare

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.

William Shakespeare

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.

William Shakespeare

If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.

Nelson Peltz

I understood the power of Heinz since I was a kid, and I started to work for my father selling food to restaurants.