Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disninterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

Danny Aiello

Like most people, I would sing in the privacy of my home. I'd also sing for my daughters or at a guest at somebody's function. I loved doing it.

Irv Slosberg

I will always remember the day I got old. It was the day my daughter died.

Robert Clarke

My daughter told me she wasn't afraid of spider but that she was afraid of my smoking. She said that she was afraid of my dying. So I went downstairs, picked up a pair of pliers and a blowtorch and showed her what real fear was.

Richelle Mead

Ah, my daughter,ʺ he said. ʺEighteen, and already youʹve been accused of murder, aided felons, and acquired a death count higher than most guardians will ever see.ʺ He paused. ʺI couldnʹt be prouder.

Rose Kennedy

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

Romola Garai

I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.

William Maxwell

My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with.

Irish Proverb

Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.

Robin Williams

I had to stop drinking alcohol because I used to wake up nude in front of my car with my keys in my ass.

Sarah Vowell

I talk about going to [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water'... the failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now.

Samuel Johnson

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Vivian Stanshall

If I had all the money I've spent on drink — I'd spend it on drink.

Winston Churchill

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.

W. C. Fields

It's quite true I'm not drinking anymore; however, I'm not drinking any less either.

W. C. Fields

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason

W. C. Fields

Never give a sucker an even break.

Rick Riordan

The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed cleanthrough her body as if she were made of water. HISSS!

William McDonough

We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.

Rebecca Stead

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

Wangari Maathai

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Saint Basil

If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.

William Tyndale

There is no work better than to please God; to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a cobbler, or an apostle, all are one; to wash dishes and to preach are all one, as touching the deed, to please God.

Will Rogers

The public perceives there are problems with the water system, and with the efficiency of the system. We need some leadership and to provide expertise in the area of efficiency.

W. C. Fields

Say anything that you like about me except that I drink water.

Zora Neale Hurston

I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.

Ryan Kwanten

I'm more of a heat-of-the-moment type of guy. A friend will tell me about something coming up, maybe that weekend, and usually not an abundance of thought goes into my doing it.

Robert Redford

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

John Green

I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

Katherine Jenkins

At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.'

Patrick Wilson

I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.

John Mulaney

It was funny to be an emcee, because you're so at the mercy of the club. You can show up for the weekend hoping to get the $400 - and get fired. I had to prank whoever they told me to prank.

Joel McHale

It's an awesome thing to be flung out onto the stage twice a weekend in front of 250 people, and you have to make it up as you go along.

Denise Van Outen

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

Donald Trump

The one I saw over the weekend was Mosul and they're talking about attacking. The other problem is, you have a lot of the leaders in Mosul. Well, they're not gonna be there, they're getting out because they hear they're gonna be attacked, so they're getting out, they're going some place

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

Robert Caro

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Vasily Grossman

Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.

Roger Moore

It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.

Scott Macartney

I'm having a wonderful time. It's a wonderful experience.

Louise Hay

I have a wonderful relationship with my friends, family members, and co-workers. I am appreciated

Mahatma Gandhi

The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.

Kurt Tucholsky

How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.

O. Henry

Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.