Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Leakey

Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.

T. D. Jakes

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.

Iyanla Vanzant

For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Friedrich Schiller

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?

Phil Collins

I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

Ralph Kiner

On Father's Day, we again wish you all happy birthday.

John Lasseter

My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.

John le Carre

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

Joanna Southcott

Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Daniel J. Boorstin

God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

Daniel Kahneman

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

D. A. Carson

God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.

D. H. Lawrence

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

D. H. Lawrence

Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.

Conor Oberst

[Popular music]is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.

Conor Oberst

Music becomes very personal. When you marry a message you want to send out into the world with good music, all of a sudden you have a very potent way of delivering your message.

Daniel Defoe

All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.