My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Life is difficult for everyone, everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.
Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.
Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.
I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.
It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.
It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.
I'm in no rush. One day I'll find a nice guy.
Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
A good day is when no one shows up and you don't have to go anywhere.
I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.
When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.
The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today's world, that does not exist.
You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!
It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.
The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you're packing up at the end of the day and putting them on the table, they just slide off.
I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
If one day I leave Arsenal, I will never sign for another English team. Quite sure.
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.
I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.
I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.
NBC is working with a team of astrophysicists to create a new day of the week.
I love Valentine's Day! I love it, I love it, I love it. I like having doors opened for me. My favorite romantic comedy is 'When Harry Met Sally.'
And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.
Those are the men who will dance at your wedding.
One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl.
I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.
Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.
Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.
When I joined the ANC, I never thought I would be anything. In no way, did I say, 'One day I could be the president. I think I am good material for the presidency.' Not at all.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.
The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day.
If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is.
On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.
I don't take success very well, because I know it's fleeting. And the next day, it can all fall apart. I know that, too. So I don't get too high, and I don't get too low. You get through the world a lot easier that way.
Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you.
