Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Dessen

She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life our of the dry, dull grass my father had spent years pushing a mower over.

Roseanne Barr

I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just make it up. A lot of things were true and abusive and horrible things that happened to me that my father did.

Rokia Traore

The interesting thing for me is to put together all my influences and all my experiences I got through my traveling with my father.

Rokia Traore

My father was not able to get all the vinyl he used to listen to with me. He couldn't travel as he did it because of his profession as a diplomatic career.

Rod Stewart

My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.

Robin Thicke

I'm going to go with ZZ Top -- they're my faves . . . because of the whole thing that they do with the guitars and the old Father Time beards.

Willard Van Orman Quine

The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.

Wilbur Smith

I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.

Wilbur Smith

I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.

Saif Ali Khan

I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.

Saint Basil

Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.

Saint Basil

We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.

Saint Francis de Sales

Obedience is a virtue of so excellent a nature, that Our Lord was pleased to mark its observance upon the whole course of His life; thus He often says, He did not come to do His Own will, but that of His Heavenly Father.

Saint Francis de Sales

Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.

Saint Augustine

The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.

Wladimir Klitschko

After Chernobyl, thousands and thousands of people, if not millions, were given a death penalty and had to pay the price, our father among them.

Warren Farrell

Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and recoil because of what the white world taught them about the Dark Continent. There arose resentment that a group like ours, born and bred in the United States for centuries, should be regarded as Africans at all. They were, as most of them began gradually to assert, Americans. My father's father was particularly bitter about this. He would not accept an invitation to a 'Negro' picnic. He would not segregate himself in any way.

W. C. Fields

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

Zaha Hadid

My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

I never exploited my father's role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps.

Ziggy Marley

Some guys that know me from when I was a kid say "My son, oh he's just like your father." It's just a natural part of our lives. But, within the music industry and within the industry of the critiques of music, where it becomes "Ziggy's music is not as good as Bob's music," I don't understand. But I don't really pay much attention to that because I'm just expressing myself.

Ziggy Marley

I am not trying to be better than my father. I am not trying to be like him. I am just trying to be myself and express myself how I feel.

Ziggy Marley

I learned from my father that music is from God and the message is from God.

Ziggy Marley

I can feel my father's spirit within me. I can feel similarities within us from the artistic perspective from being a musician. We have a lot of similarities.

Ziggy Marley

Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much.

Ziggy Marley

The idea of who my father is to me is very different than who he is to you, or to the rest of the world.

Ziggy Marley

I've never read one book about my father.

Ziggy Marley

My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.

Ziggy Marley

I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.

Ziggy Marley

My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.

Ziggy Marley

Everything I've taken away from my father has been significant. So, I can't say that any one lesson is the most significant. By being around him, I learned that there is a purpose in life, and that if we are inspired to help people, we should do it.

Youssou N'Dour

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.