Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandy Norwood

I'll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.

Allan Sherman

There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother.

Ann Hood

I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell.

Ann Hood

I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint our toenails hardened. Our favorite videos gathered dust. Her small apron was in a box in the attic. Her shoes - the sparkly ones, the leopard rain boots, the ballet slippers - stood in a corner.

Ray Bradbury

There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds upon hundreds upon thousands of candles. The whole graveyard was one swarm of candleshine as if a population of fireflies had heard of a Grand Conglomeration and had flown here to settle in and flame upon the stones and light the brown faces and the dark eyes and the black hair.

Ray Bradbury

I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.

Randy Moss

I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'

Randy Pausch

Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you"....(Taken from a farewell video from a dying father to his infant daughter on dating)

Randy Pausch

But I want her to grow up knowing that I was the first man ever to fall in love with her. I'd always thought the father/daughter thing was overstated. But I can tell you, sometimes, she looks at me and I just become a puddle.

Jay Garner

This is a tough job, and it's very difficult to take people out of a darkness and lead them into light. Once they have been standing in light long enough, their eyes will adjust.

Arthur Miller

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.

Don Novello

Theres some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace.

Colleen Atwood

The whole switch from film to digital has changed some of the ways I use color and the juxtaposition of light and dark. It's getting better with digital, the separation's gotten better, but I still feel like it's really flatter than film, so I do a lot of screening and subtle textural printing and painting on clothes for film to get it not to look flat.

Dalai Lama

I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul.

Dick Gregory

...Pets are found to suffer from all the ailments known to the human...

Dev Patel

The dark side is when you are with family and friends, and you have paparazzi screaming at you - that's been hard to deal with.

Desmond Tutu

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

Susanna Kaysen

By the time we hit the streets they were silent and closed in on us, and they had assumed the Nonchalant Look, an expression that said, I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor. But they were, and we were their six lunatics, so we behaved like lunatics.

Michael Flanders

Eating people is wrong.

Philip Larkin

Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.

Andy Esten

I got back to La Crosse, I think it was December, and it was ice cold. So, I moved down to Albuquerque, N.M., and got a job there at a pharmaceutical company.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life cracked like ice!

George R. R. Martin

What's dead may never die.

Buzz Aldrin

I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Ice is for death and endings.

Jessica Simpson

Am I eating chicken or tuna?