Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brennan Manning

Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.

Braylon Edwards

Some fathers and sons don't get along that well when they're younger because they can't find a way to reach each other, ... A father loves you dearly but you don't see it and so you're always trying to please your father, but your father doesn't let you know how he feels, which is, you don't have to please him because he already loves you.

Tessa Thompson

I'm sort of obsessed with Harlem. Just its history. My father did the music for a play called 'The Huey P. Newton Story,' and they did a lot of work in Harlem. So as a little girl, I spent a lot of time in Harlem Library.

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.

Barack Obama

I actually think, when you're young, ambitions are somewhat common - you want to prove yourself. It may grow out of different life experiences. You may want to prove that you are worthy of the admiration of the demanding father. You may want to prove that you are worthy of the love of an absent father.

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.

Antonio Porchia

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

Anzia Yezierska

I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.

Edward Young

The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.

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.

Edward Snowden

My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.

Britt Ekland

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

We used to have a phone in the store and the fathers would phone and we kids would run down and take messages down to the Jewish families,

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.

Elbert Hubbard

Postponement: The father of failure.

Eleanor Roosevelt

So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.

Egon Schiele

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness

Aristotle

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

Aristotle

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

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.

Elizabeth Bowen

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?

And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.

And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.

And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.