Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Ruckelshaus

I have no hostility towards men. Some of my best friends are men. I married a man, and my father was a man.

William Robertson Smith

The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.

William Maxwell

My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding.

Vincente Minnelli

The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else.

Vincente Minnelli

The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.

Woody Herman

The singing was something I got from my father.

Woody Harrelson

I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little being managed to get around all the obstacles - the gun turrets, the walls, the moats, the sentries - that were wrapped around my heart. My heart at that time needed her ... I think it's the best thing going, parenthood.

Woodrow Wilson

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

Saint Augustine

AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness.... In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son.

Yanni

My father once said, ‘If the whole world wants to go left and you feel like going right, go right. You don’t have to follow. You don’t have to make a big deal about which way you’re going. Just go. It’s very easy.’

Wladimir Klitschko

After Chernobyl, thousands and thousands of people, if not millions, were given a death penalty and had to pay the price, our father among them.

Wislawa Szymborska

I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one of the greatest writers ever, is Mark Twain. Yes, yes, yes. And Whitman, from whom the whole of 20th-century poetry sprung up. Whitman was the origin of things, someone with a completely different outlook. But I think that he's the father of the new wave in the world's poetry which to this very day is hitting the shore.

William Walker

I could only relate [to the family] that I, the father of three sons, could hardly imagine what it would be to lose one, far less three of my boys, in such a cruel and senseless manner.

Will Rogers

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'

Never trust a woman whose father calls her 'Princess'. Chances are she believes it.

Warren Farrell

Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and recoil because of what the white world taught them about the Dark Continent. There arose resentment that a group like ours, born and bred in the United States for centuries, should be regarded as Africans at all. They were, as most of them began gradually to assert, Americans. My father's father was particularly bitter about this. He would not accept an invitation to a 'Negro' picnic. He would not segregate himself in any way.

W. C. Fields

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

Zora Neale Hurston

Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of creation, my boy. But the sun with his seven horns of flame is the father of life.

Zaha Hadid

My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

I never exploited my father's role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps.

Ziggy Marley

Some guys that know me from when I was a kid say "My son, oh he's just like your father." It's just a natural part of our lives. But, within the music industry and within the industry of the critiques of music, where it becomes "Ziggy's music is not as good as Bob's music," I don't understand. But I don't really pay much attention to that because I'm just expressing myself.

Ziggy Marley

I am not trying to be better than my father. I am not trying to be like him. I am just trying to be myself and express myself how I feel.

Ziggy Marley

I learned from my father that music is from God and the message is from God.

Ziggy Marley

I can feel my father's spirit within me. I can feel similarities within us from the artistic perspective from being a musician. We have a lot of similarities.

Ziggy Marley

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.

Ziggy Marley

The last thing my father told me was: 'On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don't let me down.' A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously.

Ziggy Marley

Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much.

Ziggy Marley

Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.

Ziggy Marley

It's natural that anyone is compared to their father.

Ziggy Marley

My father speaks for himself, through his music.

Ziggy Marley

The idea of who my father is to me is very different than who he is to you, or to the rest of the world.

Ziggy Marley

I've never read one book about my father.