Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel de Montaigne

The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.

Michael Savage

I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they're silent? They don't have a father around to tell them, 'Don't act like a moron. You'll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don't sit there crying and screaming, idiot.'

Michael Schumacher

The first thing, when I got the money, I knew I would support somebody. And the person I supported was my family. Because we were really in debt with the money. And - so I gave to my father this suitcase full of money. And he couldn't believe it. And that was something very special.

Michael Reagan

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

Michael Reagan

My father, Ronald Reagan, held the presidency in such honor and reverence that he was never in the Oval Office without a coat and tie. Bill Clinton has such disrespect for the presidency that he was often in the Oval Office without his pants. Behold the leader of 'the most ethical administration in history'.

Markus Zusak

Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out.

Markus Zusak

Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.

Mark Twain

My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Marcus Aurelius

So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father

So how did I get from this dude, to Father Calloway?

Eddie Vedder

She tells herself, and everyone else, father is risking his life for our freedoms.

David Cook

She was released this morning, she's talked to her father and she's fine.

Ahmet Zappa

I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted us to discover the world for ourselves.

Richard P. Feynman

Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'

Obedience to our Heavenly Father starts with our loving service to a needy brother.

Paul Reiser

Peter Falk and my father are very much the same.

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

Raj Kapoor

My grandfather was a judge and my grandmother wished that my father Prithviraj Kapoor too would study law and become a judge like her husband.

My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work.

My father was an entrepreneur. I always knew one day I would try to start my own business.

My father was an alcoholic. My mother was gone. She's the only mother I ever knew.

My father had done his own soul searching,

Walter Hill

My Father was a great boxer, and I grew up watching the fights, live and on TV too.

Terry Hall

My father was a builder. He had a contracting company. And I'm a people person.

My father wanted people to stay on the slopes and ski with their hotel people.

David Cronenberg

My father used to work here, back when it was The Toronto Telegram. These remind me of him.

Paul Coffey

My father used to tell me the game is not privileged to have you, you're privileged to have hockey,

Scott Caan

My father tried to raise me like his father raised him.

Jim Nantz

My father took me to the first regular season game they ever played, when John Gilliam ran the opening kickoff back, ... So I've always had a special place in my heart for the franchise. ... I know how much they mean to that community.

Abraham Lincoln

My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

William Shakespeare

My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules