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?

Jonathan Lamy

These conversions are simple notionally, but there is a lot of devil in the detail.

Bible Bible

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Thomas Carlyle

Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it

Jerry Lee Lewis

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

Jane Jacobs

In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details.

Desiderius Erasmus

'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.

Eduardo Galeano

There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.

Billy Graham

Transcendental meditation is evil because when you are meditating, it opens space within you for the devil to enter.

Bronson Arroyo

The reason I took a discount is because I love playing here and I want to stay here my whole career. They (agents) worried that I would be traded to a small-market team like the Royals or Devil Rays.

Baruch Spinoza

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

Benjamin Britten

Music does not excite until it is performed.

Carl Yastrzemski

You never know what's going to happen. Anything can happen there... and often does.

Jane Yolen

Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars.

Brennan Manning

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.

Blaise Pascal

Everything that is incomprehensible does not cease to exist.

Blaise Pascal

When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.

Blaise Pascal

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.