Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

Barbara Kingsolver

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

Ayelet Waldman

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'

Brad Meltzer

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Brad Pitt

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

Jane Fonda

How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?

Dirk Benedict

As children get older, they are supposed to gradually stand more and more on their own and eventually completely leave the nest. My boys are definitely starting to do that. Soon I might actually go on a date.

Bonita Favre

The boys and (David) did an excellent job,

Herman Andrews

(The boys) were really flaky. We had some boys who performed worse than they have all year long. This is a home meet, and you're supposed to have some sort of pride at a home meet. You are supposed to stand tall, and we were not standing tall today.

Brian Mitchell

The boys were moved. This has rocked the school.

Linda Gilliland

The boys were impressive. Ray tends to rush his game, like he did in the second set, but he pulled it back and finished.

Matthew Lombardi

The boys were feeling really good this morning and really excited to get into the game and it showed out there.

Derek Laxdal

The boys were all over him for the celebration.

Jennifer Truman

The boys went to Burger King and got him some of those crowns.

Steve Cribari

The boys want to show people that they can play. I want them to get that credit, too.

Celine Dion

I don't know if the camera likes me, but I do like the camera.

Chuck Palahniuk

I figure if Eve could get us into this mess, I could get us out. After all, God really likes to see a go-getter.

Stephen Chbosky

I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.

Susie Orbach

I'm the sort of person who likes to undo everything.

Rajon Rondo

When you lose, nobody likes it and you start turning on each other.

Snoop Dogg

Nobody likes not having freedom.

Neil Kinnock

Someone up there likes me.

Thelma Ritter

If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.

Michael Steger

The CW likes to hold on to its shows.