Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

On Fathers Day, we again wish you all happy birthday.

I am happy that my father has reacted.

The freedom fighters of Nicaragua ... are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance.

Dr. Evil The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it.

The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children -- for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him -- and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends boyfriends -- and he accepts it.

A father gave his teen-age daughter an untrained pedigreed pup for her birthday. An hour later, when wandered through the house, he found her looking at a puddle in the center of the kitchen. "My pup," she murmured sadly, "runneth over.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

A young girl, Carmen Cohen, was called by her last name by her father, and her first name by her mother. By the time she was ten, didn't know if she was Carmen or Cohen.

Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.

The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat -- like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I it took such months to get.

If I was a father in a waiting room, and the nurse came out and said, 'Congratulations, it's a girl,' I think a good gag would be to get real mad and yell, 'A girl You must have me mixed up with THAT dork' and point to another father.

Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.

In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Sarah to Liz, after referring to Liz's father's truck: Sarah: "Is that a stick?" Liz: "Where?

(Eating dinner at a friend's house, Laura accidently burps.) Friend's Dad: "You should be ashamed. You're an amateur.

And what will you do when you grow up to be as big as me?" asked the father of his little son. "Diet.

We have let houses that our fathers built fall into pieces, and now we try to break into Oriental palaces that our fathers never knew.

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.

Carter My daddy'll kick your daddy's ass all the way from here to China, Japan, wherever the hell you from and all up that Great Wall too.

Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.

My father would be very happy if he knew he could change other people's fates after his death.

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

Seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives rest of the heart.

When we say a woman is of a certain social class, we really mean her husband or father is.

How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo Deny thy father, and refuse thy name...

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

Robert: Hey, that's my pen. You stole it! Joe: No, my father gave me this pen. Robert: Your father is a thief!

What is your major malfunction numb-nuts? Didn't mommy and daddy give you enough attention when you were a child? ;"Full Metal Jacket

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.

I'm so smart it scares you, doesn't it?;"my dad, Boon.

Dad: Jane, can you explain to me why there is a $50 fine on your student account billed as "Roof Violation"? Jane: Well, Dad, I violated the roof.

A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.

(Our physics class has just finished watching a video in which a stuffed monkey gets hit by a projectile.) Mike P.: Can we watch that again, Father? Father M.: No, we can only kill him once a year.

Katie (age 7): Does Daddy believe in God? Laura: Yes, he does. Why? Katie: 'Cause he's talking to him right now. (Katie's father was swearing at the sky in the backyard.)

You want to sleep with her next time?;"Gawain Roderick Anderson, age 3, generously, after being asked by his dad, how he enjoyed spending the night with his visiting Godmother.

While we were moving: Dennis: Jesus, what's in here, bricks? My dad, looking at the box: Um, yeah. (And there actually were. We'd been moving them from house to house for almost 20 years!)

The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.