Had Quotes

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

I've just had this fight since I can't even remember.

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

Before I had kids I'd go out on the road for months and months at a time, but now I don't think I'd want to do that anymore, because I'd miss too much time at home, so it's just a matter of monitoring how much work that I do and how much time I'm on the road.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.

Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.

I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.