Father Daughter 18th Birthday Quotes & Sayings

I don't really try to tell people whether they should fight. It's definitely not for everybody. — Laila Ali

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures — Samuel Johnson

Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least. — Wendy Kaminer

I'm Michael Sam, I'm a football player, and I'm gay. — Michael Sam

There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that's not much more than doing the right thing in the right way, and both only really happen to you when you empty your heart of ambition, purpose, and plan; when you give yourself, completely, to the golden, fate-filled moment. — Gregory David Roberts

Each truth we find (in life) leads us a step closer to God. — Donald L. Hicks

Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave. — Gloria Steinem

Cuddled up by a dragon. No, thank you. Let me off this train. "If you keep wiggling, things might get uncomfortable," he said into my ear, his voice like a caress. — Ilona Andrews

During the season, I dodge the media. After practice, I need to be taking care of my body and recovering. — Calvin Johnson

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military. — Barack Obama

It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimulates every thing to itself as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand. — Laurence Sterne

No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious. — H.L. Mencken

Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.) — Mel Bochner