Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arabian Proverb

Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

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.

Rebecca West

Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him, 'In your lifetime, have you known peace?' wait for his answer, shake his shoulders and transform him into his father, and ask him the same question, and transform him in his turn to his father, I would never hear the word 'Yes,' if I carried my questioning of the dead back for a thousand years. I would always hear, 'No, there was fear, there were our enemies without, our rulers within, there was prison, there was torture, there was violent death.

Russell Baker

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.

Umberto Eco

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

Salman Rushdie

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

Ludwig Bemelmans

America is a land of healthy appetites. It is not in the American character to live in order to eat. Rather, the reverse is true. Many try, but just as Americans don't make good gigolos, nether do they make good gourmets.

Tim Conway

This habitat is ideal for them. There's enough food, shelter and water to sustain a natural population.

Lawrence Tierney

Where's my food? When is it coming? What did I order, anyway?

Yotam Ottolenghi

The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.

Emmanuelle Seigner

I don't like French food. I like everything but French food.

A. J. Liebling

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

Robert Powell

In the 1950s, as food rationing ended, I remember a plentiful supply of sweets for the first time.

Robert Budi Hartono

I don't avoid any particular food. But I don't eat too much.

Adriana Trigiani

Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.

Don Stewart

We should have the hearings wrapped up in time to get a vote out of the full Senate in time for the (court's) October term.

Kelly McGillis

but it also made me full of self-doubt and self-loathing because I thought, 'Oh, gosh, I'm not worthy of this kind of attention. I have no talent.'

Joe Thornton

He's just an interesting story, and people need to know about it. I think good players make each other better. People might think he's just a shooter, but he's not. He's the full package.

Larry Harrison

I think sometimes we rely too much on Kenny alone. We play a much better game when we play a full game, relying on our shooting and contesting other teams shots.

Rick Rashid

Nathan is a tremendous person, and his intellect is something that is sorely missed. But in terms of the research groups, hiring and everything else, we've been going full speed.

Jose Vidro

It is different from last year, definitely. I thought it was going to be a full crowd, like last year. It didn't happen that way.

Rachel Lashford

I think this is all about Orange marking its territory as a full service provider.

Harry Williams

Maybe out West they tone it down a bit. But when they're racing in Dixie, the track is slam full of rednecks.

Frank Robinson

I'm happy for him. He seems to be having fun again. Everyone likes him. What's not to like? A kid full of enthusiasm, a big smile on his face, a young guy going out there and playing like he's a kid in a sandbox.