Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Green Ingersoll

Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf.

Michael Reagan

My mother, father and birth-mother were pro-life and pro-adoption. Because they were, my father made me a Reagan. I've come to honor my father, not to politicize his name.

I wish I had my father to hug yet.

We're all happy that he's been found, and the family's going to have a father and a husband again.

We'd wake up in the morning and there'd be a line of mothers, fathers, grandchildren waiting for us. We knew that we were there to save lives.

Unfortunately, we saw him reading a statement ... not talking in the loving way in which a father talks which suggests, perhaps, that the statement was written by someone else.

Well, lo and behold, the greatest thing that ever happened in my life, a month later Alvin Cooperman called back and told my father that I had tremendous talent!

George Hincapie

One of the reasons I work so hard today is because my father taught me to persevere. I don't think I would be where I am today without his positive influence,

I felt like I lost a father figure. We spent so much time together that I really feel like I lost a parent. Mr. Stephens gave me so many opportunities, and being at the Masters just won't be the same without him being around.

I don't think his father is talking to him anymore. And I don't think he's talking to his father.

Sven Eriksson

I don't travel around the world with a school class, I'm not a school-teacher or the father of a Sunday School.

Charles Fisher

For most of us, he was like a father figure and big brother. He was someone you could talk to even after school and after graduation. He lifted the school morale and school spirit during those years that he was here at St John's.

Alexandra Kerry

To every little girl her father is a hero.

Steve Wallace

Her father managed the officers' mess and Gloria was the cashier.

Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble

Joe's a good player, but he's only a sophomore. His father used to teach at Okemos, so I had a feeling he'd have a big game for us.

Whatever Heavenly Father wants us to learn from this, we'll do it and we'll do it with a smile on our faces.

The people who are setting the foundation are the mothers and fathers. I think we are just giving students recognition for the good habits that parents are instilling in them. We can't wake up 900 students and make sure they always go to school. That's up to parents.

He was our father no one man can replace him.

Marcelo Balboa

He was like a second father to me,

He was like a father to me. He was a down-to-earth guy, very straight forward. He let you know what he thought.

He was a father figure to all of us.

John Cornyn

He did commiserate with me a little bit, ... I hope that he will be able to give the United States Supreme Court's ruling some coherence, because frankly they are way out of step with what the founding fathers intended.

He comes from lineage of tough people. His grandfather was a great football player at Idaho. His father was a great player at Boise State. He comes by this naturally. He's the next generation of tough guys.

Joan Robinson

He is still the same manipulative person who has used the system, and it dishonors the life of my father and the life of Jackie Pigott.

He was worried about what Father would say.

Michael Bradley

He was very humble. He didn't necessarily need recognition for doing the things he did. That was not what my father was about. He worked very hard to do what he thought was right.

He will be sleeping within an arm's length from his father and mother,

He had a way of making you feel like you were the most important guy on the team. I think a lot of the team actually thought of him as a father figure, so we were all trying very hard to live up to his expectations and gain his praise.

He'd get mad if you called him Lester. He said that when his father called him Lester, he knew he was in trouble.

He (her father) figured out I'm not going to see anything on the inside and if I did, I could still turn on it. It seems like that's just what teams do because they figure you are weaker hitting the outside pitch.

He doesn't like jewelry. Never has. He's not flashy at all. So he just lets his father wear them instead.

John Milton

Hence, vain deluding joys, / The brood of Folly without father bred.