Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Livingstone

I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not to talk when we remember the great sacrifice which he made who left His Father's throne on high to give Himself for us.

David Lynch

The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.

David Lynch

As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.

David Lynch

When I was little in Spokane, Washington I drew all the time... and my father would bring paper home... and I mostly drew browning automatic water-cooled sub-machine guns... that was my favorite

David Harsanyi

The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. Its a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.

Dan Brown

Pure energy is the father of creation.

Dan Brown

My father would argue two side of a möbius strip.

Curtis Joseph

I've got a lot to look forward to. I'm trying to be the best father I can, and that's a pretty important role. Some would say it's more important than stopping pucks.

Curt Schilling

My father left me with a saying that I've carried my entire life and tried to pass on to our kids: 'Tough times don't last, tough people do,'

Curtis Jackson

My son is the reason why I write music. He's the reason why everything is different for me. Because when he came into the picture, my priorities changed. I can risk possibly being incarcerated because the only person pays for it is me. I know that if I'm not physically available to take care of him, nobody else will. I want to have the relationship with him that me and my father never had.

Curtis Jackson

When my son came into my life, my priorities changed, because I wanted to have the relationship with him, that I didn't have with my father.

Curtis Jackson

He who fears fate lives like a coward

Curtis Jackson

2Pac wrote about life threatening situations after being shot so often, it made it seem like he was obsessed with it. He even wrote music and material that he left behind after he died that made reference to him dying already. I think the significance in that ties back to us knowing that that's our fate.

Corey Taylor

I want you to understand something: I am loving father who would do anything for his kids, whether they are mine or belonging to others in my family.

Corey Taylor

So many people limit themselves by holding onto that baggage. They cut themselves off at the knees. And for me, meeting my father, and seeing how he was, and seeing that other side of where I came from, allowed me to kind of ascend spiritually. Now not to get all hippy or anything, but, you cant realise your potential unless you LET yourself realise your own potential.

Confucius

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

Confucius

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

Daniel Woodrell

A person has to show some spirit -- fate just about never shines on chickenshits.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Fate has a twisted sense of humor.

There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.

Andy Murray

A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret of securing all that the Father meant the chastisement to bring us.

Ambrose Bierce

PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who [was] not permitted to sing psalms through his nose [in Europe], followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.

Ambrose Bierce

Doubt is the father of invention.

Anthony Horowitz

I don't think my father was a bad man, all in all.

Anthony Horowitz

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.

Anthony Horowitz

Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.

Anthony Horowitz

Was it fate? Was it destiny?" "I think it was Alan Blunt.

Anthony Hopkins

I was born in the same town as Richard Burton, the actor, and I saw him, he used to come - he and his wife drove by in the car in my father's shop and Burton would come home from Hollywood and ask him for his autograph, and I thought, I want to be like him. And that's all I said to myself, I want to be like that. I want to get out of this environment of my own empty mind.

Anthony Kiedis

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

Albert Gubay

I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.

Andre Dubus

Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

Ann Richards

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

Anne Fadiman

I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.