Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Rampling

I'd had a French education for three years, my father being in the army. From 9 to 12, I went to French school. I've been sort of part of the culture, part of the geography, since I was quite young - the imprint was there. And I loved it.

Charley Reese

Our Founding Fathers were proud that Americans were trusted with arms because they knew that only when people are armed could they truly be thought of as free citizens. And that's where the circle closes. Those who want to deprive you of your right to keep and bear arms are intending to deprive you of your freedom, period. Like the criminals their policies encourage, these elitists know that it is always best to disarm victims before you enslave them.

Charley Pride

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

Charles Lindbergh

Peace is a virgin who dare not show her face without Strength, her father, for protection.

Charles Koch

My father wanted to instill the work ethic. And, because he knew if you don't learn to work to be more productive to improve your efficiency, to cooperate with other people at an early age, you may never learn those habits.

Charles Kuralt

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

Charles Lindbergh

My father had been opposed to my flying from the first and had never flown himself. However, he had agreed to go up with me at the first opportunity, and one afternoon he climbed into the cockpit and we flew over the Redwood Falls together. From that day on I never heard a word against my flying and he never missed a chance to ride in the plane.

Ai Weiwei

I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind.

Bob Monkhouse

My father was ruined by hard drink - he sat on an icicle.

Bob Monkhouse

My father only hit me once, but he used a Volvo.

Bob Newhart

In today's world, you would call my father mostly unaccessible. I'm not sure that isn't true of most fathers at that time. He went through the Depression. I don't know what that would have done to my psyche.

Bill Russell

My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work.

For years I thought my father was a hunchback. Turns out he didn't know suspenders were adjustable.

Bill Johnson

Nothing compares with the satisfaction of pleasing the heart of our heavenly Father.

Candice Bergen

I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.

Vandana Shiva

My father had been a forester and I had grown up on those hills. I had seen forests and streams disappear. I jumped into Chipko movement and started to work with the peasant women. I learned from them about what forests mean for a rural woman in India in terms of firewood and fodder and medicinal plants and rich knowledge.

Karan Johar

My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.

Judy Biggert

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.

Jane Addams

The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.

Jane Addams

I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become, during his earlier years of a miller’s life.

Jane Austen

Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

Jane Austen

never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's...

Janet Suzman

Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.

Janice Dickinson

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

C. S. Lewis

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]

Calvin Coolidge

We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. ... If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it.

Calvin Coolidge

As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them.

Burt Reynolds

You're not a man until your father says you're a man.

Celina Jade

My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films.

At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

Alafair Burke

Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.

Al Franken

If we have George W. Bush as president, we're going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.

Charles R. Swindoll

Cultivate your own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be miles different from yours. Rabbits don't fly. Eagles don't swim. Ducks look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don't have feathers. Stop comparing. There's plenty of room in the forest.