Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evelyn Underhill

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.

Evelyn Waugh

My father and I were never intimate in the sense of my coming to him with confidences or seeking advice. Our relationship was rather that of host and guest. Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

Evelyn Waugh

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

Evelyn Waugh

Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding present, he thanked them for thanking him and there was no end to the exchange but death.

Eva Longoria

I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time.

Evan Esar

After paying for the wedding, about the only thing a father has left to give away is the bride.

Eugene Jarecki

Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mamas boy and he said no, more of a papas boy. At the same time he was willing to say that his father had many shortcomings and needed to be held accountable.

Eugene Jarecki

My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story.

Ivanka Trump

My father has created an enormous business and he's created an enormous brand for himself, and I'm contributing to the business that he's built every day at The Trump Organization

Ivanka Trump

Politicians talk about wage equality, but my father has made it a practice at his company throughout his entire career. He will fight for equal pay for equal work, and I will fight for this too, right alongside of him.

Ivanka Trump

I've never had a sense of entitlement. I saw how hard my father worked for his money, and it was always made very clear to me that things wouldn't just be given to me.

Ivanka Trump

My father represents a very interesting challenge to the Republican party. I think this is taking people by surprise. (But) I think that's why he's so welcomed by the American voters, because they want somebody who says what they are thinking.

Isabella Rossellini

My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge was available to anybody.

Jack Nicklaus

We also play a Father/Son at home and I play with Steve, too. I try to mix it up. We play two or three times a year, but that's about it.

Jack Nicklaus

I play the Father/Son every year on the PGA TOUR Champions. I split it between Jackie and Gary as my playing partners.

Jack Nicholson

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

Jack Anderson

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

Jack Baker

Every dad, if he takes time out of his busy life to reflect upon his fatherhood, can learn ways to become an even better dad.

J. Courtney Sullivan

She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and musty page of sheet much, and yet wishing she were anywhere else on earth, free of it all.

J. C. Ryle

The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place - but sinners after all.

If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?

Isaac Watts

To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Be honour, praise, and glory given By all on earth, and all in heaven.

Isabel Allende

My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.

Douglas MacArthur

By profession I am a Soldier and take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father

Chris Ferguson

His main contribution is he touched the lives of so many young men and a few women as a father figure and a mentor.

His father was a post player; he's a skill player. He can play multiple positions, and he can shoot the basketball.

Nastassja Kinski

But yet there is no perfect father or mother.

But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

George Archer

because the hole is down in the ground, not up in the air. My father always told me, 'You ought to play basketball, where the hole is way up there.'

Harrison Ford

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

Hannah Storm

My fathers peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.

Guy Maddin

I am no longer haunted by my dead father. I am no longer haunted by childhood home. There's so many things I've cured myself of without realising and now when I'm embark on a project I know I'm going to cure myself of it.

Guy Kawasaki

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.