Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greg Fitzsimmons

My father told me when I first started that standup is exciting and I should pursue it, but that writing would be the thing that would give me power over my career. I never have to take a road gig or a writing gig I don't want because I always have the ability to play one against the other.

Graeme Simsion

Our first relationship with a male is with our fathers. It affects how we relate to men forever.

Gio Gonzalez

My curveball is a blessing. My father taught it to me. He felt that it was a pitch he wanted me to learn, right on the side of the house, and it just ended up working. I never asked what the tricks were, or anything like that.

Gina Rinehart

My father's vision was to see the Pilbara developed in a way that would benefit his beloved north, and West Australia and he wanted to see Australia become a stronger economy benefiting from the development of our north. His life was spent pursuing that vision.

Gerry Spence

Skepticism, not cleanliness, is next to godliness. Skepticism is the father of freedom. It is like the pry that holds open the door for truth to slip in.

Harold Evans

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

Gwyneth Paltrow

When we're home sometimes, she'll put on mascara. And sometimes I'll let her wear something out to dinner - but just a little dab. Also having a father who adores you the way that he adores her is very good for your body image. The more we can love her and let her be who she is, the more confident she'll feel.

I'm very happy to be receiving it. It's a great honor. I'm looking forward to going and I'm glad Father Gary can go with me. It should be a nice time of year to go.

Andrew Martin

If our father would not have been a strict disciplinarian, our house would have been Lord of the Flies .

I owe my father a lot of credit. There were many nights when we were at the track running 40s. We worked hard.

Clarence Day

If you don't go to other men's funerals,' he told Father stiffly, 'they won't go to yours.'

John Kerr

I didn't evacuate because I had a father who was a new amputee,

Indira Gandhi

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

Indira Gandhi

My father was a saint, I'm not.

J. Edgar Hoover

WHAT WE NEED IN AMERICA TODAY IS A VIGOROUS RETURN TO THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS AND A MOST VIGOROUS DEFENSE AGAINST THE MINION OF GODLESSNESS AND ATHEISM.

J. I. Packer

The whole story of the Father's Christ-exalting plan of redeeming love, from eternity to eternity, must be told, or the radical reorientation of life for which the gospel calls will not be understood, and the required total shift from man-centeredness to God-centeredness, and more specifically from self-centeredness to Christ-centeredness, will not take place.

J. I. Packer

God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture....

J. I. Packer

God is triune; there are within the Godhead three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; and the work of salvation is one in which all three act together, the Father purposing redemption, the Son securing it and the Spirit applying it.

J. I. Packer

Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification.. . To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater.

Johnny Griffin

It's a bittersweet moment right now. His father tried to hang on.

Aidan Quinn

I want to do a lot more roles like I did in 'This Is My Father,'

Kaspar Hauser

I want to be a knight, as my father was.

Charles Manson

I started, 'In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit ... '

Patti Smith

It walked up to me and I took off running and went and called my father and said you've got to see this and help me.

It matters to you what happens to your father here?

It's been aggravating for me at times going through struggles and seeing other guys go through struggles. I know that's got to be tough on him. I think sometimes he looks at us as a father sometimes will look at a son. When we don't succeed, sometimes it hurts him more than it hurts us.

It's been a boom-and-bust industry. You see your father get laid off from a job two or three times, you're probably not interested in going into the same business.

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

John Mabry

It's obviously a tough situation, ... I would imagine going through the Minor Leagues in an organization where your father is the pitching coach, you probably have a little more stress or a little more scrutiny than other guys might get. But he works hard to try to make it on his own merit and do the things he needs to do.

LL Cool J

All I ever wanted, all I ever needed was a father.

Madeleine Peyroux

My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

Madeleine L'Engle

You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.

Lynne Cheney

Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.