Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kavita Ramdas

With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.

Emma Thompson

They still get jilted. They're still looking for people to marry. They're still worried about how they are going to survive financially. There are still mothers who want to get their daughters married.

There weren?t enough hands there, ... The phone lines were all lit up. My daughters wanted me to help.

People still think that, you know, it might be okay for a man, but it wouldn't happen to women. Mothers, daughters and sisters do not drink. They're not supposed to have the disease of alcoholism.

The sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair

Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions

Jalal Talabani

Your sons and daughters freed us from that nightmare.

Ted Cruz

Is it true that the American people are war-weary? Absolutely. We are tired of sending our sons and daughters to distant lands year after year after year, to give their lives trying to transform foreign nations.

Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite; / And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth.

At one point, they told my wife and daughters to come in and say goodbye to me because I wasn't going to make it.

Jason Alexander

We see and hear about Israelis and Palestinians only when they are defined by the global media as 'occupiers,' 'terrorists,' and 'victims.' But we forget that they are fathers and mothers and sons and daughters and neighbors and doctors and shop-owners and farmers and students.

She volunteers all the time. Even sports her daughters are not involved in, she's the first to help.

Shinzo Abe

She told me that she would like to meet with her family as soon as possible. She wants us to make efforts so that she can meet with her husband and daughters in Japan,

Troy Glaus

Obviously, nobody probably would have said one word otherwise, if he had stayed with his wife and daughters one more day. But he wanted to come back and play, and he did, and obviously contributed in a very very big way.

Annie Duke

My two daughters are now engaged in a scribbling rivalry.

Sandra Tsing Loh

I am shamed to realize that in my marriage, my daughters never heard their father and me fight, which also meant, perhaps, that we didn't truly communicate.

(Bush) said we wont stop until victory, but what does victory look like and how many sons and daughters are going to have to die and lose limbs?

My daughters used to hear the story around the fire at camp.

My daughters think I'm getting married. It's very cute.

Henry Bates

One of the daughters was married to a handsome young mulatto, who was present, and sang us some pretty songs, accompanying himself on the guitar.

George Washington

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements and exercising them for the destruction of mankind

E. O. Wilson

Nelson Mandela is a hero to all people who value freedom and dignity and justice. President Mandela's principled opposition to tyranny and injustice inspires us today and will inspire our sons and daughters for generations to come.

Donald Rumsfeld

One always tries to help those that are grieving understand the importance of what their sons and daughters have been doing.

One of my teenage daughters has set a goal to read the great classics. I wish I'd done that at her age.

My wife, my granddaughters and my daughters - they really didn't like the idea of me going down there. But you've got to do what you've got to do.

while you are learning, my daughters will suffer.

Everyting starts to happen at my home at 7 A. M., 7:20, when you hear the orange juicer. That means my daughters are already making the fresh Clementine juice.

I would see her and her daughters on the front porch and in the back yard. I was shocked. I was just talking to her. We had gone to the Hometown Flea Market and when we got back everyone was saying your neighbor's dead. It was like being hit by a hammer.

Michio Kaku

I am a futurist, projecting trends in science into the next decades and century, but ironically my two daughters - one is a neuroscientist and the other is a pastry chef - tell me that my taste in music is positively prehistoric.

What do I remember the very most? Trying to find my wife and daughters in the melee on the field after the game, and how great it was when I did find them.

It is like a family atmosphere. You have your mom, you have your dad. It does trickle down to all of us because we are like their daughters in some little way.

Danny Aiello

Like most people, I would sing in the privacy of my home. I'd also sing for my daughters or at a guest at somebody's function. I loved doing it.

Vanessa Williams

I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have different relationships with all three and there are parts of each personality that are very special.