Famous Quotes & Sayings

Merry Clayton

My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

Mason Cooley

No one could be the way I remember my father.

Mason Cooley

My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.

Mason Cooley

I seldom remember my father, but I sneeze and rub my nose the way he did. I also love my son with grief and anger, as he did.

Mason Cooley

My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.

Mary Antin

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

Mary Astell

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.

Martin Short

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

Martin Yan

Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.

Martina Hingis

He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you're at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you.

Michael Moore

If the Founding Fathers could have looked into a crystal ball and seen AK-47s and Glock semi-automatic pistols, I think they would say, you know, 'That's not really what we mean when we say bear arms.'

Michael Gove

My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy, the European Union.

Michael Cerveris

My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.

Michael Chabon

The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.

Michael Chabon

There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would never have been another stanza written about rusting fathers and impotent steelworkers and the Bessemer convertor of love.

Michael Chabon

A father is a man who fails every day.

Menachem Begin

We were granted the right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization nearly 4,000 years ago. For that right, which has been sanctified in Jewish blood from generation to generation, we have paid a price unexampled in the annals of the nations.

Michel Houellebecq

Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult.

Michel Gondry

My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks.

Michael Josephson

Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage.

Michael J. Fox

The biggest gift on Father's Day is if I can be with all my kids.

Michael J. Fox

[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.

Michael Jordan

You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone.

Michael Jordan

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

Mark Consuelos

As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.

Mark Consuelos

Sometimes we're at hotels, and I'll answer the phone. They'll say, 'Mr. Ripa, your breakfast is coming upstairs.' And I'm like, Is my father-in-law here? But, obviously, I'm proud either way - Ripa or Consuelos.

Mark Driscoll

Fathers need to be tough and tender...you be tough for your family, be tender with your family. You protect them, and you be a safe place.

Ted Turner

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

Ted Turner

Looking back, if I had to live my life over, there are things I would do differently, but the one thing I would not change is my charitable giving. I'm particularly thankful for my father's advice to set goals so high that they can't possibly be achieved during a lifetime and to give help where help is needed most. That inspiration keeps me energized and eager to keep working hard every day on giving back and making the world a better place for generations to come.

Ted Nugent

Isn't my music the last of the real rhythm and blues? Isn't it great? It's because of my musicians, we were weaned on Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, all the founding fathers, the gods of thunder, who invented the foundation and the pulse of the greatest music in the world!

Ted Cruz

My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

Ted Cruz

The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they ratified the 14th Amendment.

Theodore White

It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.