Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Peguy

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

Dennis Ritchie

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate

Denis Diderot

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

Deana Carter

My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire.

Dean Kamen

We are in a race between knowledge and catastrophe. If we keep track of what is important, never lower our standards or forget why we are here, we have the ability to determine the fate of the world.

Aristophanes

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.

Edmund Burke

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

Elie Wiesel

Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.

Britt Ekland

I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.

Elbert Hubbard

Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.

Aristotle

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

Eddie Vedder

You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

Elizabeth Edwards

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

Flintoff, Trescothick, Vaughan, Bell, Giles, Hoggard, Harmison and Simon Jones all see me as a father figure.

Adam McKay

I hired a personal trainer to help me lose 25 pounds and get from obese to fat. My next step will be to get from fat to chubby.

Jonathan Winters

My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

Joe Strummer

I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.

Turkey cutlets are lower in fat than chicken, and the leanest high protein food to eat,

You are mother, father and friend, O Lord and Master, the whole world is Your child, O Lord of the World.

Bobby Miller

While the parasite, Ariel Sharon, was talking about turning Palestinians into a pastrami sandwich, fate turned Sharon into a vegetable.

Michael McCaul

As the father of five, I wake up every morning thanking God for the health and happiness of my children. Not all parents are as fortunate.

As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

Robert Burton

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore

Could you imagine reducing our fatality rates by 60 percent?

You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use for you to bewail your fate because you don't hold different ones. Look them over, arrange them, and play. You certainly must play them before you will get any others, and you need never expect to have other people's cards.

For man is man and master of his fate.

We should be getting rid of the trans fat as much as we can. But saturated fats have not changed. They're problematic too. And neither has cholesterol or calories.

Stephen Jay Gould

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings.

The opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings

Orson Scott Card

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

Orson Scott Card

I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.