Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alanis Morissette

When I was 11 years old and I was on a road trip with my family. I turned to my dad and said, "Do you believe in Adam and Eve?" And he said he didn't think so. I remember that felt like a slap in the face, because if my parents questioned Adam and Eve, then they potentially questioned everything within Catholicism. Eventually that idea led to my feeling liberated, but at that time it was very scary.

Alan Bennett

The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.

Al Jarreau

My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball's grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball's grandfather.

Nancy Long

We want them to have moms and dads and normal families.

Chick Corea

My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all through the 40s. He'd started it in the late 20s and 30s. According to the scrapbook, his band was doing quite well around the Boston area. During the Depression they were on radio. It was a jazz-oriented band. He was a trumpet player, and he wrote and arranged for the band. He taught me how to play the piano and read music, and taught me what he knew of standard tunes and so forth. It was a fantastic way to come up in music.

Chief Joseph

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

China Mieville

My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.

Eddie Marsan

When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.

Ed Begley, Jr.

I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting.

Charles Caleb Colton

Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.

Charles Caleb Colton

The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

Charles Caleb Colton

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

Charles Dickens

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

Charles Spurgeon

Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

Alan Watts

To perceive that form reveals the void, and to see that the void reveals form, is the secret for the overcoming of death. To the extent that one is unaware of space, one is unaware of one's own eternity — it's the same thing!

Alan Parker

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

Alan Ball

The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.

Al Pacino

They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.

Jack Dolan

We are looking to them. Oklahoma did an excellent job getting people paid promptly.

William Shakespeare

Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

Jon Oringer

Working with limited resources is an excellent way to hone skills that will serve you well for the rest of your career. You will prioritize profitability from the start.

Bruce Bochy

We're getting hit pretty hard right now, especially with the way spring was going. We were in excellent shape, right until the final days.

Craig Monroe

It's exciting for us as a team to be able to go out and have pitching like that. Our pitching staff has done an excellent job. Things are going to be fun around here.

Tara VanDerveer

It seems like the strengths of a lot of these teams are really similar. Everybody's got excellent post players.

Gordon Strachan

It's a shame for him because he has been playing excellent football and in a nice partnership with a nice midfield going there but we will just get on with it.

Kathy Langston

Alyssa did excellent today. She still makes some freshman mistakes, but she gels very well with the other girls.

Joel Trickey

They have four excellent defensemen. You don't get too many second chances.

Irish Proverb

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.

Joe Biden

This place just loves contrition, ... We all make mistakes.

Teri Hatcher

I feel like I'm too old to just have sex. I mean, I want to have sex, but with somebody who really loves me.

Eli Manning

I'm the type of person who loves to stay busy, even in my off-season.

English Proverb

Craftiness must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked

RueNell Rush

There's not a day he doesn't tell me 10 times a day that he loves me. That's so special.

Joe Kraus

The town loves us. It's sad that we have to sever that union.

Zara Phillips

Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.

James M. Barrie

Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.