Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harold B. Lee

I have faith in the future of this promised land of America and in its institutions of representative government, but more than that, I have faith in you, the youth of America, to build even more securely on the foundations laid by the faith and devotion of your pioneer fathers.

Harold B. Lee

Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and inspiring and directing them.

H. R. Giger

The designs and my credit have been stolen from me, since I alone have designed the Alien. So why does Fox not give me the credit I rightfully earned? As for those responsible for this conspiracy: all I can wish them is an Alien breeding inside their chests, which might just remind them that the Alien father is HR Giger.

Haile Gebrselassie

He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.

Guru Nanak

An adopted son shall never take the family, name and the estate of his natural father, the funeral cake follows the family, name and the estate, the funeral offerings of him who gives ,his son in adoption cease, as far as that son is concerned.

Gunter Grass

What novel - or what else in the world - can have the epic scope of a photograph album? May our Father in Heaven, the untiring amateur who each Sunday snaps us from above, at an unfortunate angle that makes for hideous foreshortening, and pastes our pictures, properly exposed or not, in his album, guide me safely through this album of mine...

Jim Brown

Even though the money is great and the fame is great, you still have a lot of disenfranchised young men that are participating in the NFL that are not very happy. A lot of them are very bitter. A lot them are very angry. So many of them have had no fathers and no home life, and basically, no education.

Jessica Barth

My father and I used to watch movies all the time. That was our bonding time, so thats when I kind of fell in love with acting.

Jesse Ventura

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

Jesse Ventura

My father used to always say to me that, you know, if a guy goes out to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, they'll give him 10 years, but a guy can do white-collar crime and steal the money of thousands and he'll get probation and a slap on the wrist.

Jayne Mansfield

My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.

Jay-Z

We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.

Jay London

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

Jay Leno

Did you see Walker's father? 'My son loves America.' Yeah, like O.J. loved his wife.

Jay Leno

Bush is smart. I don't think that Bush will ever be impeached, 'cause unlike Clinton, Reagan, or even his father, George W. is immune from scandal. Because, if George W. testifies that he had no idea what was going on, wouldn't you believe him?

Mo Rocca

Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.

Mo Rocca

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.

Mohamed ElBaradei

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

Mike Quigley

Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.

Kirk Douglas

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.

Kim Wilde

My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.

Kiki Smith

Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.

Kevin Costner

The kind of love that these young men have and the respect that they have for their fathers, I don't see that as much in America as you see in the Latino community, and it's really something to behold.

Kevin Costner

I was always listening to my father more than anyone. I was always afraid of my father more than anyone. But there's a moment in time where other men in your life can have a huge impact.

Kathleen Robertson

I'm really into antiques. But really into it because of my father, who got me into them in the first place. He's an interior designer and he's really into going to antique shows and getting up really early on Sundays and driving out to these weird little towns north of Hamilton.

Kathleen Turner

I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

Kathleen Hanna

I'm sure if you see things you wrote when you were 19, you cringe. I saw stuff like angry poetry that I wrote when I was mad at my father, or photos I took where I smeared period blood on myself. It's embarrassing.

Karl Malden

My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.

Jules Verne

The wisest man may be a blind father.

Julia Child

My father was in charge of managing the farm.

Jude Law

I never thought I had to forge a family, but it felt the most natural thing that ever happened to me - meeting someone and becoming a father.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

May those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Heavenly Father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies, than we are ready to believe or receive.