Quotes with house-fathers

Quotes 341 till 360 of 370.

  • Julia Roberts What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.
    Julia Roberts
    American actress (1967 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bruce Barton When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits - all without any directing intelligence at all.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
    - +
     0
  • Boy George When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
    - +
     0
  • Al Goldstein When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
    - +
     0
  • Agnes Macphail When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
    - +
     0
  • Beth Ditto When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
    - +
     0
  • Cate Blanchett When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ben Falcone When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to do.
    - +
     0
  • Bruce Springsteen When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bonnie Jo Campbell When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
    - +
     0
  • Bruce Robinson When I was writing 'Withnail,' I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would carry around the house with me. I mean, really. No furniture, no money, and I was hoping to be an actor, but I could never get a job.
    Bruce Robinson
    English actor, director and novelist (1946 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ben Nelson When it comes to making decisions, I will come down on the side of Nebraska every time. If I have to choose between the White House and the farmhouse, I choose the farmhouse.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
    - +
     0
  • Robert Louis Stevenson When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
    - +
     0
  • Carol Ann Duffy When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.
    Interviewed in The Guardian, December 4, 2005. [2]
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
    - +
     0
  • Anselm Kiefer When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.
    Anselm Kiefer
    German painter and sculptor (1945 - )
    - +
     0
  • Edmund Burke Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
    - +
     0
  • Bruce Springsteen Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
    - +
     0
  • Captain Beefheart You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
    Captain Beefheart
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1941 - 2010)
    - +
     0
  • Lorrie Moore You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
    - +
     0
  • Rush Limbaugh You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.
    Rush Limbaugh
    American radio talk show host (1951 - 2021)
    - +
     0
All house-fathers famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 18)