Famous Quotes & Sayings

Asia Argento

I always saw myself as really ugly. My father even told me I was ugly because I would shave my head and look like a boy.

Barbara Mikulski

My own father had died of Alzheimer's. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.

Augusten Burroughs

I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.

Arthur Middleton

The priest comes. . not as an obscurantist, but wearing the intelligible vestments of living faith, divine but positive, ministering in Word and Sacrament that which is humanity's hope and salvation, the divine energy in which he lives with Christ in the Father through the Holy Spirit, identified but not accommodated to the world Christ seeks to save.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

Arthur Miller

The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.

Arthur Miller

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

Arthur Miller

He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Marcus Aurelius

So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father

So how did I get from this dude, to Father Calloway?

Eddie Vedder

She tells herself, and everyone else, father is risking his life for our freedoms.

David Cook

She was released this morning, she's talked to her father and she's fine.

Denis Diderot

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

Denis Diderot

There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

Deana Carter

My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire.

Dean Ornish

One of the reasons my father ... became a dentist was so he could always be home for dinner and spend weekends with his family. At one point he had thought about being a musician, but he said, I'm not going to do that because I'd be on the road all the time and I wouldn't be with my family.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.

Eleanor Porter

Oh, yes," nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times [in the Bible] to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - SOME.

Eleanor Mondale

How rude would I be, walking around and saying: 'Hello. I'm Eleanor Mondale. My father was vice president of the United States. Treat me differently.

Elbert Hubbard

Postponement: The father of failure.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

Eike Batista

What I learned from my father is to think big.

Egon Schiele

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness

Eddie Trunk

My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.

Atom Egoyan

The fathers greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

Atul Gawande

When we lived in a society where we had large families that lived together, especially in agricultural societies like my grandfather and father grew up in, the result is you always had family around to take care of you.

Aristotle

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

Aristotle

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

Ben Jonson

Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.

Ben Jonson

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

Ahmed Zewail

Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people

Alexi Giannoulias

Family businesses that have been around for generations are suddenly closing their doors, and while I'm not comparing my situation or my family's situations to theirs, the fact that my father's business, which has been around for 30 years, might not be around, it gives me a perspective that makes me want to fight even harder for a lot of people.