Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lasse Hallstrom

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

John Kasich

Let's start off with my father being a mailman.

John Kenneth Galbraith

It is a well known and very important fact that America's founding fathers did not like taxation without representation. It is a lesser known and equally important fact that they did not much like taxation with representation.

Karen Hesse

My father and I, we can't soothe each other. I'm too young, he's too old, and we don't know how to talk anymore if we ever did

Karen Bass

My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and watch TV with him.

Juliet Mills

My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds.

Juliet Stevenson

I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.

Justin Halpern

I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently.

Karl Kraus

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

Karl Kraus

The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.

Julius Streicher

You are blinded and you serve the God of the Jews, who is not the God of love but the God of hatred. Why don't you listen to Christ Himself, who said to the Jews: "Ye are of your father the devil!

Ouida

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Kami Garcia

Oblivion eyes on a cereal box, the warm blinds of a father lost and last to know lost and last to love last boy lost you can't see even a bubble once it's popped

June Jordan

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

June Jordan

As I think about anyone or anything -- whether history or literature or my father or political organizations or a poem or a film -- as I seek to evaluate the potentiality, the life-supportive commitment and possibilities of anyone or any thing, the decisive question is always where is the love?

June Jordan

My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair

Julian McMahon

I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.

Judy Davis

Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage.

Paul Thomas Anderson

As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.

Patrick Willis

One thing you try not to do as a father, as a coach, is pressure your son to do something that you've done. You don't just keep saying, "this is what I've done, this is what I've done." You have to take a little piece at a time.

John Piper

Don't wait for a feeling or love in order to share Christ with a stranger. You already love your heavenly Father, and you know that this stranger is created by Him, but separated from Him... so take those first steps in evangelism because you love God. It is not primarily out of compassion for humanity that we share our faith or pray for the lost; it is first of all, love for God.

Martin Luther

Amen meaneth assuredly, namely, that I am sure that petitions of this kind are accepted by my Heavenly Father, and heard by him, because he hath commanded us, that we should pray after this manner, and hath promised that he will hear us. Amen, Amen: that is, truly, certainly, so be it.

Martin Luther

[Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.

Martin Luther

Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.

Martin Luther

God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing

Martin Luther

Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous.

Martin Luther

God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love," and look not so much at the gift as at the heart.

Martin Luther

I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.

Nancy Grace

My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

Then I read this: “You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven” (Matthew 5:43-45). That's it! I was thunderstruck

Missi Pyle

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.

Missy Elliot

My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.

P. J. O'Rourke

The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls and keep them out of the private sector where they might do actual harm.