Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Reagan

The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he's in now (Alzheimer's Syndrome). Yes, some of the current policies are an extension of the '80s. But the overall thrust of this administration is not my father's - these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don't trust these people.

Ron Reagan

He never stopped wanting to save the world.

Ron Reagan

I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way.

Roland Barthes

Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories? Doesn't every narrative lead back to Oedipus? Isn't storytelling always a way of searching for one's origin, speaking one's conflicts with the Law, entering into the dialectic of tenderness and hatred?

Susan Powter

My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen.

Susan Orlean

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

Suheir Hammad

I understand now my father really thought he was doing me good. Education means a lot to Palestinians. We’ve become some of the most educated people in the world through our diaspora. We’ve had to be. When you ain’t got land, your degree may be your only solid ground. May father felt (feels) that being a doctor would give me security. How can I explain that I’m not safe from anything if I don’t write?

Stijn Streuvels

I was a devil of a scapegrace in my time.... Father racked his head for days together to find a punishment that I should remember; but it was all no good... bread and water was a welcome change to me from the everyday monotony of potatoes and bread-and-butter. After a sound drubbing followed by half a day’s fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.

Stevie Wonder

I love Aretha [Franklin] and I've loved her all my life. I think she's an incredible songstress, obviously. She consistently has had this incredible voice. I remember when she was singing gospel in her father's church.

Stephen Sondheim

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.

Stephen Greenblatt

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

Mother Teresa

All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.

Mona Simpson

Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working.

Molly Ringwald

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

I calculated the amount of time I spent with my father during my entire life... the total amount of time I had with him, if you add up the hours, was about two months. My father was a busy man... we had very few opportunities to really sit down and talk as father and son.

Mira Nair

We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot of things I do are very much with the family in mind. I have actually made films with the family around me.

Mira Sorvino

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

Mike Huckabee

When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom by the way were clergymen, they said that we had certain inalienable rights given to us by our creator, and among these life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, life being one of them. I still believe that.

Paula Yates

I don't remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn.

Paul Walker

My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy.

Philip Glenister

My father was a television director, and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry, but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.

Peter Kreeft

It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

Peter Fonda

I dig my father. I wish he could open his eyes and dig me.

Peter Berg

I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.

Paz Vega

My father was a bullfighter.

Phil Collins

I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

Phil Collins

I've been a long-distance father.

Peter Noone

Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time.

Peter O'Toole

When my father would come home from the track after a good day, the whole room would light up; it was fairyland. But when he lost, it was black. In our house, it was always either a wake ... or a wedding.

Peter Jacobson

My first film role was a reporter. It's funny, because my father was a news reporter. I always thought there was something strange about that.

Peter Jennings

The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.

Peter Jackson

I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.

Pete Rose

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.