Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liev Schreiber

I did everything that my father did in trying to find him because I didn't live with him,

Gary Gaetti

I can't fathom the destruction. It's the scope of the loss. It's knowing how long it's going to take to get things back to normal. There are parts of New Orleans that will never be the same.

Jean Paul

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

Jim Hightower

Founders v. Bush brings the wisdom and eloquence of the Founding Fathers back to the people, while unmasking the fraudulent PR machine that is corrupting their words and stealing our legacy.

Jim Harrison

Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.

Jerry Spinelli

Ironic," Betty Lou said at last. "The cereus insists on sunlight---that's why it must be at the end of the yard. And yet it saves its flowers for the moon. The sun never sees what it fathers." It takes from the day," I said, "gives to the night.

Jerry Seinfeld

You can tell what was the best year of your father's life, because they seem to freeze that clothing style and ride it out.

Jenson Button

My father did everything for me. He was awesome.

Jeffrey Eugenides

I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and before birth, finally, to commune with the dead. You get older, you puff on the stairs, you enter the body of your father. From there it's only a quick jump to your grandparents, and then before you know it you're time traveling. In this life we grow backwards.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that those two over-the-hill players, permanently on the disabled list, were once in the starting lineup? It's impossible to imagine my father, who in my experience was aroused mainly by the lowering of interest rates, suffering the acute, adolescent passions of the flesh.

Jim Elliot

Father, let me be weak that I might loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me loose the tension of the grasping hand. Even, Father, would I lose the love of fondling. How often I have released a grasp only to retain what I prized by 'harmless' longing, the fondling touch. Rather, open my hand to received the nail of Calvary, as Christ's was opened- that I, releasing all, might be released, unleashed from all that binds me now. He thought Heaven, yea, equality with God, not a thing to be clutched at. So let me release my grasp.

Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried in the Ecton churchyard, but her father would hardly have paid a carver to engrave so small a stone. If not for the parish register, there would be no record that this Jane Francklyne had ever lived at all. History is what is written and can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by the earth.

Jennifer O'Neill

If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off.

Jeffrey Sachs

The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.

James Cameron

The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make.

Jacqueline Carey

We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.

Herbert Kaufman

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

Evgeni Plushenko

I think I was born to be a figure skater, I think it was fate, and I thank God for letting it happen.

Evelyn Waugh

All fates are ‘worse than death’.

Evelyn Waugh

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

Eva Longoria

I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time.

Ernest Hemingway

You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

Federico Fellini

Fate is written in the face.

Ezra Taft Benson

From the 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I am fearful of the harvest. The younger generation is further to the left than most adults realize. The old concepts of our Founding Fathers are scoffed and jeered at by young moderns whose goals appear to be the destruction of integrity and virtue, and the glorification of pleasure, thrills, and self-indulgence.

Euripides

Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.

Euripides

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

Euripides

The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.

Euripides

The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.

Euripides

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses ... I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Euripides

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

Francis of Assisi

Such was the will of the Father that his Son, blessed and glorious, whom he gave to us, and who was born for us, should by his own blood, sacrifice, and oblation, offer himself on the altar of the cross, not for himself, by whom "all things were made," but for our sins, leaving us an example that we should follow his steps.

Francis Ford Coppola

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

Francis Bacon

Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.