Famous Quotes & Sayings

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

Christian Camargo

My father always said: 'If you want to know someone, live together on a boat.'

J. C. Ryle

The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place - but sinners after all.

If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?

Isaac Watts

To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Be honour, praise, and glory given By all on earth, and all in heaven.

Isabel Allende

My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.

Douglas MacArthur

By profession I am a Soldier and take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father

Jack Klugman

He told me the show always made his father laugh, particularly at a time when laughter was necessary in his life. Meetings like that keep you on the road for a long time,

He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

Joe Girardi

He said, 'Joe, you're ready to manage. Go,' ... That meant a lot to me, because it was like a father telling his son he was ready for the world.

Joe Girardi

He said, 'Joe, you're ready to manage. Go,' ... That meant a lot to me, because it was like a father telling his son he was ready for the world.

He's an old-fashioned, traditional father and he is going to pay for everything he feels responsible for.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.

Franz Boas

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom

Franz Grillparzer

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.

Jim Carrey

My father used to brag that I wasn't a ham, I was the whole pig.

Jim Carrey

I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don't want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love

Jerzy Kosinski

As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

Jerzy Kosinski

All my father saw was what he wanted to see.

Jennifer Weiner

This is the meanest thing anyone’s ever done to me,” I said, through my tear-clogged throat. “I want you to know that.” But even as the words were leaving my mouth, I knew it wasn’t true. In the grand, historical scheme of things, my father leaving us was doubtlessly worse. Which is one of the many things that sucked about my father?? he forever robbed me of the possibility of telling another man, This is the worst thing that’s ever happened to me, and meaning it.

Jehane Noujaim

Al Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it.

Jim Fowler

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.

Jerry Lewis

When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you',

Franz Kafka

The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

Eric Clapton

Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight of being a servant.

John Kerr

I didn't evacuate because I had a father who was a new amputee,

J. Edgar Hoover

WHAT WE NEED IN AMERICA TODAY IS A VIGOROUS RETURN TO THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS AND A MOST VIGOROUS DEFENSE AGAINST THE MINION OF GODLESSNESS AND ATHEISM.

Mike was the kind of guy who would give the shirt off his back for anyone. He was like a second father to my kids.

Bill Bryson

Entirely incidentally, a little-known fact about Shakespeare is that his father moved to Stratford-upon-Avon from a nearby village shortly before his son's birth. Had he not done so, the Bard of Avon would instead be known as the rather less ringing Bard of Snitterfield.

Bill Vaughan

Men are more like the time they live in than they are like their fathers.

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.

Jay-Z

The most amazing feeling I feel Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real Maybe I paint the sky blue My greatest creation was you.