Famous Quotes & Sayings

Justin Hartley

Any father can relate to feeling like a superhero when you put a Band-Aid on your kid.

As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers; / From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.

As a father of a 3-year-old at that time, I was left to question the sanity of this world and the people who share it,

As a father, I wish he would have stopped.

Save me, O My Father God. I am worthless and without virtue; all virtues are Yours.

The narrative was originally from four points of view, including a mother, father and baby, and the language was very, well, French. Very poetic.

a freak in my neighborhood. My father wasn't interested in sports.

a friend, counselor, father figure, and a true gentleman.

After I got news of the stampede, my wife and I could not sleep throughout of the night. We tried till 1 a.m. to talk to my father but could not get through.

James Blake

The moment you hear your father passes away is about as low as it gets.

Steve Forbes

As my father once said when he lost a governor's race in New Jersey: 'We were nosed out by a landslide,'

Absolutely. No question about that ... He looked upon Father Geoghan as a prize.

Isabella Rossellini

They were hurt. To be ridiculed in the newspapers. My father was such an intellectual and moral person, to be reduced to a sexy playboy, it was humiliating.

For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

Sam Harris

We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another of God’s teachings on morality: if a man discovers on his wedding night that his bride is not a virgin, he must stone her to death on her father’s doorstep (Deuteronomy 22:13-21).

Saint Patrick

He [God] watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and he protected me, and consoled me as a father would his son.

Ronald Reagan

The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.

Ronald Reagan

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

Ronald Reagan

Whether meeting with leaders and parents concerned about drugs in Bonn, Lisbon, or with the Holy Father at the Vatican, or doing a pretty fair flamenco in Madrid, I think Nancy's one of the best ambassadors America's ever had.

Roger Federer

I'm as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, but sometimes kids can get you really cross if they really keep bugging you.

Ron Paul

The Founding Fathers realized that "the power to tax is the power to destroy," which is why they did not give the Federal government the power to impose an income tax. Needless to say, the Founders would be horrified to know that Americans today give more than a third of their income to the Federal government.

Ron Paul

The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.

Ron Paul

How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.

Ron Paul

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.

Sam Raimi

My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.

Sam Neill

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

Sam Levenson

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Saad Hariri

Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.

Saadi

The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.

Roy Campanella

A true pioneer who to me was like a father when I first came into the Dodger organization. He (Walter O'Malley) stood by me, and after my injury he stood by me and helped me through all of my crises.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

Ron Reagan

My father didn't know George W. Bush from Adam.