Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Swift

My father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons.

Jonathan Swift

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

Kelley Armstrong

To distract myself from thoughts of my father, i decided to check out the dead body.

Kelley Armstrong

Did you use a chainsaw?" Joey said. "I seem to recall you like chainsawa." "There wasn't a power outlet." Clay turned to me. "That's what I want for Father's Day, darling. A gas powered chainsaw.

Kurt Busch

My father instilled in me a love for racing.

Kurt Fuller

I understand that actors lose their looks, they change over time, but people don't lose their talent. I think that, as people get older and the people who make the decisions get older, they don't like hiring people much older than them because it reminds them of their fathers, and they don't like telling people older than them what to do. It makes them uncomfortable. I think that happens a lot.

Kurt Cobain

My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.

Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them.

Khaled Hosseini

I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take the wooden stick to the bread maker. He'd carve notches on our stick with his knife, one notch for each loaf of naan he'd pull for us from the tandoor's roaring flames. At the end of the month, my father paid him for the number of notches on the stick. That was it. No questions. No ID.

Jonathan Swift

Polite Conversation 'Tis happy for him, that his father was before him.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I am writing you this letter, or what this letter is supposed to be about, but I am writing it nonetheless, because I love you very much and trust that you have some good purpose for having me write this letter. I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love. Your father

Jonathan Safran Foer

Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done with a book he tried to give it away to someone who would love it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

In the water I saw my father's face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and so on, reflecting backward to the beginning of time, to the face of God, in whose image we were created.

Jonathan Safran Foer

We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in my father's shed were sighing. The sheets were rising and falling around me with Anna's breathing. I thought about waking her. but it was unnecessary. There would be other nights. And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you... It's always necessary. I love you,...

Jonathan Safran Foer

In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.

Lynette Fromme

My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took.

Ludwig Bemelmans

To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.

Louise Leakey

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.

Louis de Bernieres

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

LZ Granderson

This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers].

Malcolm Gladwell

Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.

Malachy McCourt

I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about.

Malachy McCourt

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

Malala Yousafzai

My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.

Mahesh Babu

Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.

Magnus Carlsen

My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.

Major Taylor

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

Gail Carson Levine

My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.

Gail Carson Levine

Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say no I suppose I'm confessing another fault: pride. I don't want him to know that I love if my affections are not returned

Gail Carriger

My father,” she admitted, “was of Italian extraction. Unfortunately, not an affliction that can be cured.” She paused. “Though he did die.

Fred Ward

When you're a father, you know exactly where your heart really is. There's no question of it, no doubt. That part of your life has no second guessing.

Frank McCourt

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.

Frank Luntz

My father was a dentist, and I always thought that he was one of the 10. It's an interesting way to personalize and humanize, which is one of the most important aspects of communication.