Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Aurelius

Submit to the fate of your own free will.

Marc Maron

I'm not a narcissist, but I definitely have gotten enough explosive narcissistic shrapnel from my father. I'm sort of wired that way, but I don't feel that I'm pathological, so all I can pull from is my own existence and my knowledge.

Thomas A. Edison

Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever limits us we call fate.

Simeon Rice

It means everything. Making my father happy, that's my biggest joy.

Sidney Altman

By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.

Sheryl Lee

I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.

Sheryl Sandberg

Men feel like they can be a professional and a father. For women it's "or." That's offensive to me. The concept that it's not possible is crazy.

Neil Patrick Harris

'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was really interested in the technical CG side of things. I'd never done a movie that I thought would be so physical and yet so precise. So I was intrigued by all of that.

Natalie Goldberg

I told all kinds of stories about going to Japan, about playing ball with my father... I wanted to record my life in case it was going to end soon. So, I wrote that and it was very comforting to have that practice in the afternoons in my living room. I just wrote about my life.

Tatum O'Neal

I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

Josh Lucas

No, well, my father's definitely not Christopher Walken.

Josh McDowell

I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.

Joseph Conrad

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

Joshua Harris

A defining reality for me is what Scripture teaches in Hebrews 12, that God is our father, and that a sign that he loves us is that he disciplines us, he takes us through hardship to build character in us that could not be shaped apart from difficulty.

Josh Turner

I'm always showing pictures off. I have to be careful who I show them to because of who I am, obviously, but I'm a proud father.

Joseph Haydn

The life's story of great geniuses is a sad one, without much tangible reward, which does not inspire future generations to face a similar fate. Alas also, it stands to reason why so many talent will not come to sparkle on the artistic firmanent.

Joseph Butler

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Well, look who I ran into," crowed Coincidence. "Please," flirted Fate, "this was meant to be.

Leigh Steinberg

Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models.

Lawrence Welk

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.

Lasse Hallstrom

My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.

Lasse Hallstrom

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

John Kasich

Let's start off with my father being a mailman.

John Kenneth Galbraith

It is a well known and very important fact that America's founding fathers did not like taxation without representation. It is a lesser known and equally important fact that they did not much like taxation with representation.

Lisa Kleypas

Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic hair onto a painting and sold it for a million dollars.

Lionel Barber

My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Lionel Barber

My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do something different, but the reaction among prospective employers was, shall we say, underwhelming.

Lindsay Lohan

I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

Lindsay Lohan

It angers me to see that my own father would stoop to such a level

Linda Evans

My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.

Lincoln Steffens

I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not only did not, but did not want to, establish a democratic government.

Lincoln Steffens

My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.