Famous Quotes & Sayings

Epictetus

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Emily Giffin

Sorrow comes with so many defense mechanisms. You have your shock, your denial, your getting wasted, your cracking jokes, and your religion. You also have the old standby catchall—the blind belief in fate, the whole "things happening for a reason" drill.

Emily Giffin

I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.

Emily Dickinson

Heavenly Father - take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband - Though to trust us seem to us More respectful - We are Dust - We apologize to thee For thine own Duplicity.

Emily Dickinson

When he tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is acquainted with grief, we listen, for that also is an acquaintance of our own.

Ben Shapiro

Kids are fat because of lack of parenting.

David Soul

Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools.

Ron Reagan

Every once in a while someone will make the mistake ... of invoking my father in some way that they have really no right to do. ... I'll tolerate it up to a point, but after a point it's like, I'm going to shut this down right now.

The severity of the downturn still hinges on the fate of consumers.

I was 25 when I first started playing for Gloucestershire, because my father had insisted I got a proper qualification before trying to make it as a cricketer,

Lakhdar Brahimi

Not much, I'm sorry to say, because my father passed away when I was very young. I was eleven, and my mother was a simple, uneducated peasant.

The new generation of fathers is interested in doing this, and fathers are taking more time to be with their children.

It's been aggravating for me at times going through struggles and seeing other guys go through struggles. I know that's got to be tough on him. I think sometimes he looks at us as a father sometimes will look at a son. When we don't succeed, sometimes it hurts him more than it hurts us.

It's been a boom-and-bust industry. You see your father get laid off from a job two or three times, you're probably not interested in going into the same business.

Jack Kenny

Daniel's father is of the more conservative wing of the church, not really in favor of gay marriage.

The numbers look great but it doesn't seal the fate on having no increase in rates next week. It seems to be there are still some upside risks to inflation pressures.

It's incomprehensible. Kathleen and my father had the most loving relationship. They never fought.

Jennifer Garner

I want to be funny. I want to be like a huge fat old man and stuff like that, ... Now is the time to do stuff that's fun.

Kaspar Hauser

I want to be a knight, as my father was.

Charles Manson

I started, 'In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit ... '

Patti Smith

It walked up to me and I took off running and went and called my father and said you've got to see this and help me.

They jumped out to a big, fat lead. Forks is a very good team, and they've played together for a number of years. They play very well together as a team.

I've had a varied background. My father taught me a valuable lesson, to have as many different experiences as you can.

No little lily-handed Baronet he,/ A great broad-shouldered genial Englishman,/ A lord of fat prize-oxen and of sheep,/ A raiser of huge melons and of pine,/ A patron of some thirty charities.

John Doe

No. It was like father and son ... He is my father.

Never stop dreaming. We didn't. I looked up and saw my mother crying. My father was crying. This is pure joy.

Not having a father is like not having all the pieces to a puzzle... You can still make out what the picture is, but its still incomplete.

It matters to you what happens to your father here?

It's going to be a great party. The float entries get better every year, the music will be very cool, and Fat Tuesday will be fun too.

Henry B. Eyring

The Father to whom we pray is the glorious God who created worlds through His Beloved Son.

Piers Anthony

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

Nelson Mandela

It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism, to conduct discussions as if he or she is a schoolmaster talking to less informed and inexperienced learners.

Nelson Mandela

It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to their own subjective canon.