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.

Lady Gaga

I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me.

John Malkovich

My father was a very contradictory man.

John Locke

Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God. . . .

Mark Steyn

The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

Nick Lowe

As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle.

Morris Gleitzman

A little hope goes a long way.

Jack Paar

As I look back on my life, I see it as one long obstacle course with myself as the main obstacle.

Woody Allen

I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens.

Winston Churchill

Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")

Ronald Reagan

For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and this must stop.

Joseph Barbera

So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.