Quotes with father-in-law

Quotes 241 till 260 of 682.

  • Anne Sexton It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
    Anne Sexton
    American poet (1928 - 1974)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • William Shakespeare It is a wise father that knows his own child.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Samuel Butler It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Anatole France It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Douglas Jerold It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
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  • Thomas Troward It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.
    Thomas Troward
    English author (1847 - 1916)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Gertrude Stein It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Cecil B. DeMille It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
    Cecil B. DeMille
    American filmmaker (1881 - 1959)
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  • Thomas Jefferson It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Washington It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Pope Gregory VII It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
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  • Alfred E. Smith It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.
    Alfred E. Smith
    American politician (1873 - 1944)
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  • Martin Luther King It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Alice Walker It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Al Sharpton James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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