Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Leakey

Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.

T. D. Jakes

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.

Harper Lee

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

Iyanla Vanzant

For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Salman Rushdie

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

Sam Brownback

You can look at founding father Alexander Hamilton nevertheless assuring - assuring - the countrymen in Federalist 78 that the role of the federal courts under the proposed Constitution would be limited.

Friedrich Schiller

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?

Lawrence Eagleburger

My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.

Phil Collins

I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

Ricky Jay

I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.

Tom Petty

I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.

Tiger Woods

There are guys on Tour who hit the ball further than me. I always thought it was important to have power, but more important to have power in reserve.

Steven Wright

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.

Reggie Jackson

You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.

Tom T. Hall

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

Tom Brokaw

I remain the luckiest guy I know.

Tom Brady

I see so many guys, really athletic guys, wearing pleats and I just shake my head. Like, Tiger Woods used to wear pleated pants! I'm like, 'C'mon, Tiger!'

S. I. Hayakawa

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

Henry Rollins

I spend a lot of time alone so I get a lot done. I don't do much else but work, check things out.

Myles Munroe

True success is what you have done compared to what you could have done.

Kate Bush

My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

Kevin O'Leary

As far as I'm concerned, Twitter has wiped out Facebook. I'm done with Facebook.

Nathan Lane

The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.

Terence McKenna

Don't diddle the dose. Once you have done your homework, go for it.

Temple Grandin

I don’t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning.

Randall Jarrell

The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything I am being sympathetic, not satiric for the very best reasons.

Scott Lynch

Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.