Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Clay

I always have had, and always shall have, a profound regard for Christianity, the religion of my fathers, and for its rights, its usages and observances.

Helena Bonham Carter

My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.

Helen Andelin

To be successful in the family the father must have the welfare of each family member at heart and his decisions and plans must be based upon what is best for them.

John Krasinski

All the cliches are true about parenting. All I've ever wanted to do is be a father, but there's this existential mirror that's held up when you have a kid.

Johanna Lindsey

By your father's word has your life been given to me to protect. Now do I give you my life in return, yours to keep until the day I die. --Falon to Shanelle

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Win for yourself that which your fathers have won.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

Joe Wright

My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.

Joe Torre

My father wasn't the best role model to me.

Joaquin Miller

Merciful Father, I will not complain. I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain.

Joe Frazier

If I said 'Fall down', he's gonna fall down. I'm still his father.

Joe Eszterhas

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

Emma Thompson

The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.

John McCain

Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father.

John McCain

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.

John Irving

And Father said, “There are no happy endings.” “Right!” cried Iowa Bob – an odd mixture of exuberance and stoicism in his cracked voice. “Death is horrible, final, and frequently premature,” Coach Bob declared. “So what?” my father said. “Right!” cried Iowa Bob. “That’s the point: So what?” Thus the family maxim was that an unhappy ending did not undermine a rich and energetic life. This was based on the belief that there were no happy endings.

John Irving

You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life

John Hume

My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues

John Hurt

My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

John Hartford

Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself.

My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.

William Goldman

Anyway, here's the "good parts" version. S. Morgenstern wrote it. And my father read it to me. And now I give it to you. What you do with it will be of more than passing interest to us all.

Ayn Rand

The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they were thinkers who were also men of action.

Benjamin Banneker

How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves

Marcelo Balboa

He was like a second father to me,

He was like a father to me. He was a down-to-earth guy, very straight forward. He let you know what he thought.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.

Eleanor Porter

Oh, yes," nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times [in the Bible] to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - SOME.

Eleanor Mondale

How rude would I be, walking around and saying: 'Hello. I'm Eleanor Mondale. My father was vice president of the United States. Treat me differently.