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?

Norm Hewitt

As every day moves on, he is progressing with what those 75 hours were for him. He is catching up with a lot of friends and family, and also spending some quality time with himself, contemplating the enormity of the whole event really.

Dick Bliss

As only a sophomore, Nicole has really been our catalyst all year. We need her on the floor; she does so much for this team.

John Brady

Prices had already factored in a Category 5 hurricane, so when the storm lost intensity and headed further east the market sold off.

Michael Turner

Other methods will catch up, and then we'll know whether it is a statistical fluke.

Jim Hunter

People tend to minimize a Category 1. They need to know this is a different kind of Category 1,

Lane Green

The name change is actually catching up. But we are not ignoring the Red Hills. We are still working our rear ends off doing easements in the Red Hills region - close to home.

Haywood Boston

Coaches have started doing things that Lincoln has been doing for years ? taking kids to team camps, putting them in the gym (in the summer) and making sure they play. We're just finally catching up with them.

John Bollinger

These massive market consolidations are caused by massive overvaluation. What happens is the market pauses and waits for earnings to catch up. It does that by going sideways.

Chris Massoglia

The spookiest thing for me is when I think I see something, and then nothing is there. I always imagine I see something, or I'll catch movement out of the corner of my eye, but nothing is really there.

Cameron Diaz

Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

Carnie Wilson

Liposuction isn't an option, because I don't have any fat under my skin. The solution? ReFirme, which is painless

Diane Ackerman

Our skin is what stands between us and the world.

Demi Lovato

I feel most confident when I'm taking care of my body and my skin.

Aubrey Plaza

I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.

Andy Goldsworthy

The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.

Drew Barrymore

My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world.

Anderson Cooper

Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.

Alicia Keys

I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I'm able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I'm able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.