Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wilfrid Sheed

For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.

Warren Zevon

My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

Yoko Ono

My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

Wyclef Jean

My father being a Caribbean minister, one day I stole the radio. The radio that I stole, I took it to school, showing off how big this boom box was and how bad I was at the time. Once my father figured out where I left the radio, he then got his belt and he walked me, he beat me all the way to where I had hid the radio, and with the boom box.

Wyclef Jean

I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was a strict household.

Wyclef Jean

Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.

Wynton Marsalis

When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'

Wynton Marsalis

I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.

Wynton Marsalis

We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.

Willow Smith

I never really get to go to school because I am always on tour or with my father. There is a tutor most of the time, but usually I am working so I never get to do the lessons. The worst thing about maths is all the kids are ahead of me because they go to school.

William Peter Blatty

God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.

William P. Young

I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

William P. Young

Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence

William P. Young

I grew up fundamentalist, evangelical, Protestant. Those are my roots, and they are good roots. But it means the Pharisees are my people. I grew up with an image of God that was not helpful -- largely the face of my father expanded.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.

Yehuda Berg

I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.

Zinedine Zidane

My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.

Zebulon Pike

Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Father said conflict develops the character