Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Gilbert

I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully) dismantled, it was not necessarily replaced by another form of protection. What I mean is--I never thought to ask a suitor the same challenging questions my father might have asked him, in a different age.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Your father only has one foot on this earth. And really, really long legs . . .

John Corbett

I'm not opposed to adoption. It's not in my immediate future because I'm on the move a lot and if I were going to be father I would like to be more grounded.

John Corey Whaley

Some people say dying alone is a fate worse than death itself. Well, they should try being alone during the living part sometimes. There's no quicker way to make you wonder why the hell you ever thought you'd want to return.

John Burnside

My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible. [Burnside, p. 27]

John Bunyan

Then said he, ’I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought His battles who now will be my rewarder.’.... So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

John Bunyan

Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!

Joel Osteen

When my father died, it sounds kind of simple but I just had the desire to step up and pastor the church. It was what I was supposed to do. I just took that step of faith.

Joel Osteen

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Joel Osteen

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Joel Osteen

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.

Joe Biden

Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

Joe Biden

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be.

Loudon Wainwright III

I hated the idea that I would be like my father. Which is one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to be a writer and wanted to be an actor instead. I wanted to go in a total different direction. But, of course, I ended up being a writer anyway.

LL Cool J

All I ever wanted, all I ever needed was a father.

Madeleine Peyroux

My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

Madeleine L'Engle

You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.

Madeleine L'Engle

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

Lynne Cheney

Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.

Lysette Anthony

I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.

Lysander Spooner

If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them.

Louisa May Alcott

...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.

Louisa May Alcott

Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.

Louisa May Alcott

Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

Louisa May Alcott

I'll try to be what Father loves to call me, a 'little woman,' and not be rough and wild but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else.

Lou Ferrigno

Most pro bodybuilders have bad relationships with their fathers. We want to prove something.

Lou Ferrigno

I've been involved with law enforcement for some time. My father was in law enforcement. I went through the training for Homeland Security. I enjoy it very much.

Lou Ferrigno

I have a lot of anger about my childhood - being hard of hearing and my relationship with my father.

John Green

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

John Glenn

To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.

John Gay

One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.

John Flanagan

After all, he did say you were the issue of an encounter between your father and a traeling hatcha-hatcha dancer." There was a gasp of horror from the crowd. Duncan, smiling thinly, said through gritted teeth: "Thank you so much for reminding us all, Anthony.

John F. Kennedy

The American presidency will demand more than ringing manifestos issued from the rear of the battle. It will demand that the President place himself in the very thick of the fight; that he care passionately about the fate of the people he leads .