Famous Quotes & Sayings

Veronica Roth

There are men with guns up there. When they see me, they will kill me, if they can," I tell my father quietly. I search his eyes. "Should I let them?" He stares at me for a few seconds. "Go," he says, "and God help you.

Veronica Roth

People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

Veronica Roth

My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.

Vince Staples

We still wading in the water... Cocaine, blunts, marinating in the water. Lean and took a puff, and then she gave it to my father, Used to take the bullets out so I could play with the revolver. Satan serenading ever since I was a toddler, Tell 'em talk is cheap...niggas living for the dollar.

Vince Gill

And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.

Vince Vaughn

My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor.

Robert Green Ingersoll

You cannot show real respect to your parents by perpetuating their errors.... Do you consider that the inventor of a steel plow cast a slur upon his father who scratched the ground with a wooden one? I do not consider that an invention by the son is a slander upon the father; I regard each invention simply as an improvement; and every father should be exceedingly proud of an ingenious son. If Mr. Talmage has a son, it will be impossible for him to honor his father except by differing with him.

Rudy Giuliani

My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency, become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'

Sandra Cisneros

For example, there's no word emocionó in English, so I have to say, "You, you really emotioned me," It's more precise, even though it sounds odd. "My father emotioned me." Or "That performance really emotioned to me."

Sandra Cisneros

I realize that when I moved out of my father’s house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

Sandra Cisneros

It takes a long time for women to feel it's alright to be chingona. To aspire to be a chingona!...You are saying, 'This is my camino, this is my path and I'm gonna follow it, regardless of what culture says.' I don't think the church likes chingonas. I don't think the state likes chingonas.! And fathers definitely do not like chingonas. And boyfriends don't like chingonas. But, you know, I remain optimistic. I will meet a man who likes a chingona, one day. One day, my chingon will come.

Samuel Johnson

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

Samuel Johnson

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

Samuel Johnson

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

Sam Trammell

Being a father is just wonderful.

Samantha Bond

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

Sam Brownback

You can look at founding father Alexander Hamilton nevertheless assuring - assuring - the countrymen in Federalist 78 that the role of the federal courts under the proposed Constitution would be limited.

Sade Adu

My father was a very difficult man.

Sadie Jones

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

Sachin Tendulkar

I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.

Sachin Tendulkar

Even my father's name is Sachin Tendulkar.

Ryan Giggs

A lot of people don't know that my father is black

Rufus Wainwright

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

Ronald Reagan

I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers... Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them for ourselves.

Robert Jordan

Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.

Robert Jarvik

I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

Robert Southey

"You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."

Viva Bianca

My father is a very theatrical and dramatic person.

Willa Cather

Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.

Will Smith

The desire to be a good father is really innate. There aren't a lot of movies that depict that relationship because men, we have to pretend that we're not that emotional about it.

Will Smith

There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?

Warren Christopher

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.