Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Roosevelt

Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers

Manfred von Richthofen

As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.

Manmohan Singh

The first and foremost priority is to finish the unfinished task which the founding fathers of India set out for us at the time of our independence: to get rid of chronic poverty, ignorance, and disease, which have afflicted millions and millions of our people.

Mahatma Gandhi

Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.

Joe Pesci

My father loved me so much that he did not want me to be a laborer or anything. I dont know if its the right thing to do - push your kids into something and then stay on them until they do it. Let them pick what they want to do.

Harvey Keitel

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.

Harvey Fierstein

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.

Louise J. Kaplan

Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.

Louise Erdrich

The only answer to this, and it isn't an entire answer, said Father Travis, is that God made human beings free agents. We are able to choose good over evil, but the opposite too. And in order to protect our human freedom, God doesn't often, very often at least, intervene. God can't do that without taking away our moral freedom. Do you see? No. But yeah. The only thing that God can do, and does all of the time, is to draw good from any evil situation.

Louise Erdrich

In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.

George Andrew Olah

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.

James Levine

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

Joe Paterno

My father said about money: 'You have to have some. But you don't have to have all of it. Just be honest with yourself.'

Joe Frazier

If I said 'Fall down', he's gonna fall down. I'm still his father.

Joe Eszterhas

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

Emma Thompson

The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.

John McCain

Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father.

John McCain

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.

John Irving

The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human beings could survive a life in hotels.

John Irving

In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.

John Irving

And Father said, “There are no happy endings.” “Right!” cried Iowa Bob – an odd mixture of exuberance and stoicism in his cracked voice. “Death is horrible, final, and frequently premature,” Coach Bob declared. “So what?” my father said. “Right!” cried Iowa Bob. “That’s the point: So what?” Thus the family maxim was that an unhappy ending did not undermine a rich and energetic life. This was based on the belief that there were no happy endings.

John Irving

You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life

John Hume

My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues

John Hurt

My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

John Hartford

Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself.

Neal Boortz

Our founding fathers detested the idea of a democracy and labored long to prevent America becoming one. Once again - the word 'democracy' does not appear in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, or the constitution of any of the fifty states. Not once. Furthermore, take a look at State of the Union speeches. You won't find the 'D' word uttered once until the Wilson years.

Ralph Abernathy

I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

Rafael Nadal

I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.

Sharon Shinn

He looked down at his empty glass. "One of the other ways in which I am different from my father," he said. "I am not interested in marrying where I do not love." I spoke in a jesting voice. "And of all the women in the eight provinces, you have not been able to find one you could love?" Now he looked at me again, and his face was completely serious. "That's the problem," he said. "There is one.

Sergei Prokofiev

At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen my father died; my response to his death was atheistic.

Serena Williams

I think my father is probably the best coach ever because if we talk about numbers, he's got a lot and he's only had two players.