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?

Dr. Johnson

Back fusions are like killing a fly on the windowpane with a sledgehammer. The fly is dead, but you've also broken the glass.

John Jones

People talk about HP being a broken company, but they're not a broken company, ... Half of their business is printers and, they're growing at as much as 16 percent.

Jason Conley

The thing I love most the coaching staff didn't give up on me. That's actually the reason I've broken out.

Rudi Giuliani

St. Paul's Chapel stands -- without so much as a broken window, ... little miracle.

George Soros

Something really is broken in the international financial architecture, ... We're now in the 20th month of financial crisis. Yet this crisis was brewing, it was the most anticipated crisis in recent history.

John Gilmore

Something is fundamentally broken at the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control.

Kevin Kading

Some say, the first chance I get it's coming out. Others say it never should have been broken in the first place and that one of the main reasons they signed up for CRP is that they like wildlife.

Bible Bible

So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets.

Mohammad Farzaneh

So the whole structure is weakened and collapses. Our system ties down the roof joists and rafters to the exterior walls down to the foundation. If windows and doors are broken and the house is twisted on its foundation, the occupants are still safe.

Brian Jacques

Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears.

Elizabeth Scott

Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die." Kate to Will

Dennis Quaid

I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.

Bono

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Ben Katchor

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

Dave Rowntree

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

Donal Logue

To be honest, when you're young and you watch The Deer Hunter for the first time, that's when you're like, "That's what I want to do."

Clint Eastwood

I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them.

Drew Roy

I don't watch something just because it's a specific genre.