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?

Donald Sterling

It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people. Do you have to?

Albert Maltz

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

Trai Byers

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others

Kiki Smith

I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off.

Richard Madden

Oh, I am not naturally gifted in dancing in any way! Stupidly, I didn't go to those classes in drama school. I was like, 'I don't need that; I'll never be dancing in anything.'

Paul Lawrie

Colin has always been a world class player and I can't say I'm surprised by what he's done. Obviously, Colin has dug in and got it going again, which is great. But the Order of Merit race isn't over yet by any means - there's still a long way to go.

J. J. Johnson

Some reporters even indicated that this class of land no longer exists in their markets due to moratoriums on further development.

Ron Parks

So we really made sure that the cost of this new teacher would be workable if we have to go back to a Class I budget.

Matt Lawrence

Now it's my turn to start, and I am going to try to fill the (previous lineman's) shoes. There is more pressure because we don't want to be the senior class that let coach (Barry) Alvarez down in his last season with Wisconsin.

James Quinn

Now he's worth millions and one of a number of world-class players in their squad but there is zero pressure on us and they know they will have been in a game.

Nat Friedman

Now Linux has a world-class totally modern graphics system that will last us for the next decade.

Dave Miley

Sometimes you get into a rehab start and the guy is going out there only to get his work in. Smally, you have to tip your hat to him, went out to win the game. Smally?s a class act.

Jeff Greene

Technology can be a great equalizer when it comes to health care, education - to the point where rich, poor, middle class can all get the same benefits.