Famous Quotes & Sayings

Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?

Orson Scott Card

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

Orson Scott Card

I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.

Orson Scott Card

But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.

Robin McKinley

I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?

Quincy Jones

I've never looked back in my life. I don't want to see that stuff. I had blanked out a lot of stuff ... putting my mother in a straitjacket, my father holding her down, screaming.

Bill Snyder

I've not been the kind of father that I should have been, and the kind of husband,

Andrew Solt

It was the true father of all the variety shows.

It was about 1951. She had written me and said he was very special and he thought she was very special, and I knew it was serious. She said he reminded her of her father and there was no more to say. I looked upon him favorably and was impressed.

I used to watch my father play with his friends in Mexico. I loved watching him play.

The show has a lot to do with manhood and how men come into being. I grew up without my father in the picture, and my grandfather was my main role model. The aesthetics (of the show) come from the male model skipping a generation.

Starhawk

The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does not rule the world. She is the world. Manifest in each of us, She can be known internally by every indivdual, in all her magnificent diversity.

The son of Mr Milosevic has just informed (the) Hague tribunal that the funeral of his father will be in Belgrade.

Richelle Mead

Adrian ordered a martini, earning disapproving looks from his father and me. "It's barely noon," said Nathan. "I know," said Adrian. "I'm surprised I held out that long too.

Richelle Mead

A man can never compete with a woman's father

Richelle Mead

What have you gotten me into?" I hissed at him. "Me? What have you gotten yourself into? Couldn't I have just picked you up at the police station for underage drinking, like most fathers?

Rebecca West

Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him, 'In your lifetime, have you known peace?' wait for his answer, shake his shoulders and transform him into his father, and ask him the same question, and transform him in his turn to his father, I would never hear the word 'Yes,' if I carried my questioning of the dead back for a thousand years. I would always hear, 'No, there was fear, there were our enemies without, our rulers within, there was prison, there was torture, there was violent death.

Rebecca West

I had a glorious father, I had no father at all.

Russell Baker

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.

Roy Yamaguchi

Of all the things I have been privileged to do and experience in life, the highest honor has been fatherhood. Wishing Fathers everywhere a wonderful day.

Rose Kennedy

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.

Ronaldinho

I still have a video of my father, which I watch before every game I play for Brazil. It gives me strength, makes me determined.

Ronda Rousey

My father would say, 'Ronnie, you're going to be someone special. Whatever it is that you want to do, you're going to be the best in the world at it.'

Ron Chernow

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.

Umberto Eco

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

Umberto Eco

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Trudi Canavan

Nodding, Cery strode to the door and stepped through. Though the burly guards eyes him suspiciously, Cery smiled back. Never make enemies of someone's lackeys, his father had taught him. Better still, make them like you a lot.

Truman Capote

My father was quite an attractive guy. He was very intelligent and very amusing. I didn't like him. He was always very nice to me but I just didn't like him.

Trisha Goddard

Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.

Rick Warren

A father, finding time for what is most important is the true marker of a successful person.

Rick Riordan

Nico di Angelo came into Olympus to a hero's welcome, his father right behind him, despite the fact that Hades was only supposed to visit Olympus in winter solstice. The God of the dead looked stunned when his relatives clapped him on the back. I doubt he'd ever got such an enthusiastic welcome before.

Rick Riordan

Percy," my father said, "what exactly do you mean?" "Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their parents," I said. "They felt angry, resentful, and unloved, and they had a good reason.

Troy Garity

I look a lot like my father when he was my age.