Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandy Norwood

I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.

Allan Sherman

There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother.

Ann Hood

I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell.

Ann Hood

I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint our toenails hardened. Our favorite videos gathered dust. Her small apron was in a box in the attic. Her shoes - the sparkly ones, the leopard rain boots, the ballet slippers - stood in a corner.

Ray Bradbury

There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds upon hundreds upon thousands of candles. The whole graveyard was one swarm of candleshine as if a population of fireflies had heard of a Grand Conglomeration and had flown here to settle in and flame upon the stones and light the brown faces and the dark eyes and the black hair.

Ray Bradbury

I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.

Randy Moss

I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'

Randy Pausch

Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you"....(Taken from a farewell video from a dying father to his infant daughter on dating)

Randy Pausch

But I want her to grow up knowing that I was the first man ever to fall in love with her. I'd always thought the father/daughter thing was overstated. But I can tell you, sometimes, she looks at me and I just become a puddle.

Max Born

Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people.

Gore Vidal

Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.

Voltaire

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

William Butler Yeats

I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.

Rick Warren

The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan.

Rick Warren

Worry is really just a form of atheism. Every time you worry, you're acting like an atheist. You're saying, "It all depends on me." That's just not in the Bible.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.

Robert Green Ingersoll

With soap, baptism is a good thing.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

Billy Carter

The press made me something I really wasn't and I tried to live up to what they made me.

Shalom Harlow

Nobody responds to being made to feel judged.

Roger Goodell

I don't get myself caught up in the rhetoric of any personal comments that are made.

Mary McCormack

I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish.

Joseph Goebbels

Short shrift is made of the Jews in all eastern occupied areas. Tens of thousands of them are liquidated.

C. S. Lewis

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

Bernie Mac

Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.

Cornelia Funke

Where did the love come from? What was it made of?