Famous Quotes & Sayings

Olympia Brown

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the molds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

Oliver Sacks

There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate - the genetic and neural fate - of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.

Olive Schreiner

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Novak Djokovic

My father never talked about the sacrifices that the family made for me.

Ellen G. White

God Himself was crucified with Christ, for Christ was one with the Father.

Ellen G. White

Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.

Emily Dickinson

Heavenly Father - take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband - Though to trust us seem to us More respectful - We are Dust - We apologize to thee For thine own Duplicity.

David Soul

Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools.

Ron Reagan

Every once in a while someone will make the mistake ... of invoking my father in some way that they have really no right to do. ... I'll tolerate it up to a point, but after a point it's like, I'm going to shut this down right now.

The severity of the downturn still hinges on the fate of consumers.

I was 25 when I first started playing for Gloucestershire, because my father had insisted I got a proper qualification before trying to make it as a cricketer,

Lakhdar Brahimi

Not much, I'm sorry to say, because my father passed away when I was very young. I was eleven, and my mother was a simple, uneducated peasant.

The new generation of fathers is interested in doing this, and fathers are taking more time to be with their children.

It's been aggravating for me at times going through struggles and seeing other guys go through struggles. I know that's got to be tough on him. I think sometimes he looks at us as a father sometimes will look at a son. When we don't succeed, sometimes it hurts him more than it hurts us.

The numbers look great but it doesn't seal the fate on having no increase in rates next week. It seems to be there are still some upside risks to inflation pressures.

It's incomprehensible. Kathleen and my father had the most loving relationship. They never fought.

Charles Manson

I started, 'In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit ... '

Not having a father is like not having all the pieces to a puzzle... You can still make out what the picture is, but its still incomplete.

Piers Anthony

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

Nelson Mandela

I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.

Nelson Mandela

I thank whatever gods may be / For my unconquerable soul. / I am the master of my fate / I am the captain of my soul.

Nelson Mandela

To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.

Nelly

My father lead by fear. I did what my father said ‘cause I was scared of getting my ass beat. His voice rang so vividly in my head. That it was just…a fear.

Nellie Bly

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate

Niccolo Machiavelli

A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair. [Lat., Gli huomini dimenticano piu teste la morte del padre, che la perdita del patrimonie.]

Niccolo Machiavelli

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Im told Im like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.

Neymar

My father has been by my side since I was little. He takes care of things, my finances and my family.

Newt Gingrich

It is false to suggest that Thomas Jefferson or any other Founding Father believed in a legal barrier to God in the public square.

Nelson Piquet

I am really looking forward to driving another of my father?s car at the show in Rotterdam.

Noam Chomsky

The general public are not even aware of major decisions that will determine their fate, hence are in no position to influence them

Mike Oldfield

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

Mike Myers

My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn't like people who had no sense of humour.