Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Gaskell

Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. It did them no harm.

Elizabeth Gaskell

But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong.

Elizabeth Gaskell

He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or two, during which time his face, his eyes, his look, told of more sympathy than could be put into words.

Elizabeth Gaskell

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully) dismantled, it was not necessarily replaced by another form of protection. What I mean is--I never thought to ask a suitor the same challenging questions my father might have asked him, in a different age.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Your father only has one foot on this earth. And really, really long legs . . .

Julie Andrews

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.

Judith Martin

Precision marching is less important for the bridal party than maintaining the proper facial expresssions: The bridegroom must look awed; the bridesmaids, happy and excited; the father of the bride, proud; and the bride, demure. If the bridegroom feels doubtful, the bridesmaids, sulky, the father, worried, and the bride, blasé, nobody wants to know.

Katherine Harris

And if we are the ones not actively involved in electing those godly men and women and if people aren't involved in helping godly men in getting elected than we're going to have a nation of secular laws. That's not what our founding fathers intended and that's certainly isn't what God intended.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

Joyce Meyer

My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: 'You know there's no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won't.' I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.

Joyce Meyer

It's true my father abused me and didn't love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

Joyce Meyer

I was mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen

Joyce Meyer

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.

Joyce Meyer

On this special day of love, remember that your Father loves you more than you could ever imagine...no matter what you’ve done or haven’t done. No box of candy or flowers can compare to this kind of agape love!

Josh Lucas

No, well, my father's definitely not Christopher Walken.

Josh McDowell

I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.

Joshua Harris

A defining reality for me is what Scripture teaches in Hebrews 12, that God is our father, and that a sign that he loves us is that he disciplines us, he takes us through hardship to build character in us that could not be shaped apart from difficulty.

Josh Turner

I'm always showing pictures off. I have to be careful who I show them to because of who I am, obviously, but I'm a proud father.

Leigh Steinberg

Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models.

Lawrence Welk

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.

Laurance Rockefeller

Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what's in him and what's been given him.

Lasse Hallstrom

My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.

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.

Lisa Kleypas

Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic hair onto a painting and sold it for a million dollars.

Lynette Fromme

My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took.

Ludwig Bemelmans

To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.

Louise Leakey

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.

Louis de Bernieres

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

LZ Granderson

This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers].

Malcolm Gladwell

Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.