Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Friedrich Schiller

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?

Phil Collins

I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

Ralph Kiner

On Father's Day, we again wish you all happy birthday.

Liam Neeson

It is the right to bear arms which is the problem. I think if the Founding Fathers knew what was happening they would be turning in their graves with embarrassment at how that law has been interpreted.

Lee Daniels

I felt hopeful for the future because Obama is here. But nothing has changed. It's time for young kids to get serious again and really think about what their four fathers were like. As African-Americans, we are resilient, we are some bad mf-ers, and we are survivors. So get those i-pods out of their ears and become heroes again like the Freedom Riders.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Amartya Sen

There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.

Andrew Young

You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.

Andrew Weil

Alternative models are neither right nor wrong, just more or less useful in allowing us to operate in the world and discover more and better options for solving problems.

Andrei Tarkovsky

Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.

Chuck Palahniuk

He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.

Chuck Palahniuk

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

Chuck Palahniuk

the world is the cradle and your trap.

Chuck Palahniuk

The world can be a lot bet­ter than we set­tle for. All you have to do is ask.

Art Buchwald

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Eckhart Tolle

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

Chuck Palahniuk

Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.

Chuck Palahniuk

Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.

Chuck Connors

I can never get rid of 'The Rifleman,' and I don't want to. It's a good image.

Angie Harmon

I'm from the South, so I'm very old-fashioned and I'm not very computer savvy at all, but I'm getting it. I understand that, if you've got information and you want it out there, that is how you go about doing it. I get it.

Amy Adams

I always want to defeat supervillains - it's just the chicken-and-broccoli diet that I'm not into.

Anthony Doerr

Don’t you want to be alive before you die?

Alonzo Mourning

I know that all good things must come to an end and I've had an incredible ride. I just want to end it on the right note.