Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

Ogbuef Ezedudu,who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking the Peace of Ani had become very mild in their clan. "It has not always been so," he said. "My father told me that he had been told that in the past a man who broke the peace was dragged on the ground through the village until he died. but after a while this custom was stopped because it spoiled the peace which it was meant to preserve.

Chief Seattle

The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.

Chief Joseph

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

Chief Joseph

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.

Chief Joseph

Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good.

Chief Joseph

My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho,and that it was a shame that young Americans were serial murderers.

Chevy Chase

My father was the funniest guy I ever met. I'm not sure if I stole his stuff or if I inherited it.

Cherie Lunghi

I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

It's difficult for me to write in English as it's not my first language, but French is even worse because of my father's influence and because the comparisons that I - not even other people - would make.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I was very attached to my family when my father died. I was 19. I was about to go live with my father right when he died, so it was very intense.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films.

Chanakya

This sutura gives example about the purpose of relationship. A son of enemy who wants to uproot his own father, should be treated as friend and shold be protected. This may be called opportunism but is and should be necessary part of polity and statesmanship. Moreover, if a father is not aan upright man to have friendship with his sone can be a meritorious peson. So it is better to protecdt him.

Chang-Rae Lee

Obviously loss of family is huge and critical, but I think really it's more about losing a sense of family. The horror of that kind of incompleteness. Writing this book, I tried not to think about my father, which does no one any good fictionally. I did try to imagine not just the horror of that moment, but the horror of having witnessed it, and the lifelong void. And I think that's what's so frightening.

Chaim Potok

It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.

Charles Rangel

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

Charles Rangel

My father was absolutely no good.

Bill Johnson

Our assignment is to see the dominion of God realized into people's lives. It is not an overpowering control, it is a life-giving, liberating experience with the almighty God, who is an ultimate, perfect Father who loves to bring liberty and freedom to His people.

Betty White

I've always had a bawdy sense of humor. My father was a traveling salesman and he would bring jokes home. He would say, "Honey, you can take this one to school, but you can't take that one to school."

Beyonce Knowles

He will change diapers, of course he will. He is going to be a very hands-on father.

Bernard Williams

The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.

Bernardo Bertolucci

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.

Edward Gibbon

His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations, and from the productions which he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather than ostentation.

Eddie Izzard

Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.

Ed Baker

Your father is the first person to tell me that I am lovely who seemed to mean it. The only people who've told me that before were ones who think they're supposed to flatter a princess' 'I think you're lovely,' murmured Eadric. 'Only because you love me,' I said. 'Hmm,' he said, kissing me before I could say anything else.

Ed Bradley

I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.

Ed Begley, Jr.

I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.

Eartha Kitt

I was trying to find out who my father was. They say that at that time, that if you are illegitimate, the father doesn't have to put his name down on the certificate.

Dean Cain

I'm a single father, I don't like to be away from my son. So I'll go out, make a film and come back. Repeat. And it's worked out very well for the last 11 years.

Dean Cain

The thing that drives me more than anything else is being a father.

Dean Acheson

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

David Walliams

I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father's face that day was amazing.