Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Berry

When we were leaving, Jerry (Narron) said, 'You're going to come to Cincinnati and see us play next year,' ... He moved his thumb. His mother said that means 'OK.' I got pretty choked up. Jerry did, too.

Patty Hopson

When I was little, my mother always told me to beware of strangers. Today, I tell my children to beware of Uncle Chester, their Mother's Molester.

John Rosemond

What happens is that the mother spends so much time with the child that the father's role ends up being a parenting aid.

Elizabeth Lonsdorf

We found that mothers showed no differential behavior toward their sons versus their daughters. They weren't being nasty to their sons or encouraging to their daughters.

Mike Ferguson

We got to the First Baptist Church of Baton Rouge, which had been converted into a shelter for several dozen mothers and newborn infants, and I found the pastor and asked him to put me to work, ... He told me to collect the trash.

Steve Bruce

With my mother being Irish it was a close call. I nearly went, but I decided against it as we were going to be hindered as a club at Manchester United with the five foreigners rule.

Roberta Crawford

We're finishing the story for my mother and father.

William Shakespeare

And all my mother came into mine eyes And gave me up to tears.

William Shakespeare

So loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven, Visit her face' too roughly.

Anne Sullivan

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

Anne Sullivan

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

Anne Sullivan

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

Jeff Kinney

Working with Dav Pilkey was a dream come true. Dav is incredibly funny, and he's been a hero of mine for a long time. It was great bringing the 'Wimpy Kid' and 'Captain Underpants' worlds together!

John Perkins

We're aware that there's a worldwide shortage of refinery capacity and to that extent, we've let it be known that we'd be amenable to discussing the possibility in Nova Scotia, and we have had discussions with a couple of parties.

Frederick Saunders

Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.

Frederick Saunders

How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during the sequel of marriage!

Arthur Frank Burns

As you take leave of [your school], as you graduate into a new life of the mind, may each of you ask yourself this: What am I doing to increase the sum hope of the world? ... What am I doing to teach someone else what I have learned?

Houssaye Houssaye

Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.

Charles Simic

To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.

Hayley Kiyoko

My friends call my style 'old man chic.' I wear loafers and stylish sweatpants. I love to stay comfortable, so I definitely funk it up, but I'm always comfortable. I wear lots of hats and feathers, and I kind of have a little obsession with Native American jewelry.

Mark Cuban

Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.

Alex Steffen

Make no mistake: Tackling climate change is vital. But to see everything through the lens of short-term CO2 reductions, letting our obsession with carbon blind us to the bigger picture, is to court catastrophe.

Catherine Deneuve

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

Carl Honore

The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly.

Cassandra Peterson

I chased every band around the world. Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, you name it. I could just go on and on. It was my hobby, my pastime, and my obsession for several years.

Conor McGregor

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

Bruce Springsteen

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.