Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wynton Marsalis

When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'

Wynton Marsalis

I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.

Wynton Marsalis

We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.

Willow Smith

I never really get to go to school because I am always on tour or with my father. There is a tutor most of the time, but usually I am working so I never get to do the lessons. The worst thing about maths is all the kids are ahead of me because they go to school.

William Peter Blatty

God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.

William P. Young

I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

William P. Young

Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence

William P. Young

I grew up fundamentalist, evangelical, Protestant. Those are my roots, and they are good roots. But it means the Pharisees are my people. I grew up with an image of God that was not helpful -- largely the face of my father expanded.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.

Zinedine Zidane

My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.

Zebulon Pike

Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Father said conflict develops the character

O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: / And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.

Edward Egan

Please keep the Holy Father in your prayers,

Clark Blaise

Relative to most people I know, I am comfortable just about anywhere. I went to 20 schools before the 8th grade because my father couldn't hold a job. We moved every six months. I had to adjust.

Johnathon Schaech

In my life, I'm just looking for that life of integrity that my father had. I have a good heart; I'm not a heartbreaker.

Peter Chan

I just love making movies and my father was making movies. He wasn't as successful as he wanted to be so I wanted to make sure I could finish off what he started,

Chris Ferguson

His main contribution is he touched the lives of so many young men and a few women as a father figure and a mentor.

His father was a post player; he's a skill player. He can play multiple positions, and he can shoot the basketball.

Andrew Martin

If our father would not have been a strict disciplinarian, our house would have been Lord of the Flies .

I owe my father a lot of credit. There were many nights when we were at the track running 40s. We worked hard.

Clarence Day

If you don't go to other men's funerals,' he told Father stiffly, 'they won't go to yours.'

I really honor my father and the other people throughout the times who paved the way, who were all pioneers without realizing what they were doing for future generations.

John Pizzarelli

If my father had been an IRS agent, I probably would have been an IRS agent,

I'm sure he knows this, but my father passed away this summer and (Davis is) like a father figure to me. I love him with all my heart, and I'm sure he loves me as well.

I know, 100 percent, that my father is in heaven because of his deeds. How could this happen to my father?

I loved my father so much and couldn't handle what she was doing to him.

Janet Reno

The (Miami) relatives say it would be wrenching to him to take him from the home, but four months is no substitute for six years for a father who had such an important role in raising such a wonderful little boy,

Natasha Richardson

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

Natasha Richardson

When my father died of AIDS, I knew I had to do everything in my power to prevent others from going through what he endured. I support AmFAR which provides funds for cutting edge AIDS research so we can find a vaccine and a cure.

Miles Davis

You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from.

Marat Safin

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Our Father in Heaven does not wish us to cower. He does not want us to wallow in our misery. He expects us to square our shoulders, roll up our sleeves, and overcome our challenges.