Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever did anything like that.

Carrie Fisher

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• On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Life
  • Work
  • Father

• Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

  

  Lactantius
  • Men
  • Father
  • Beginning

• Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.

  

  Flavius Josephus
  • Great
  • Father
  • City

• My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Good
  • Family
  • Father

• I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Up
  • War
  • Father

• I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Father

• I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Father

• I said on numerous occasions how I feel about my father. I love him with all my heart.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Love
  • Father
  • Feel

• I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • People
  • Father
  • Baseball

• My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Real
  • Family
  • Mother

• People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Father
  • Son

• Women have been such an important part of my life. I try, every day, to be a better father to my daughters and a better husband.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Life
  • Important
  • Women

• I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Dreams

• My very shy Punjabi father never taught me about the birds and bees. So shy was he that he may have thought he would get arrested for even talking about it.

  

  Karan Johar
  • May
  • Father
  • Thought

• Las Vegas has the type of audience - and they haven't changed since my father's days - they're still boring and bored. And there's only that handful of artists that they really enjoy and know how to respond to.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Father
  • Know
  • Enjoy

• The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Father
  • Faith
  • End

• I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Up
  • Father
  • Calm

• I'm always working on our home, but I want to keep the old look to it.

  

  Dick Van Patten
  • Home

• If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.

  

  Adam Giles
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • You

• If we are to learn anything from the tragic death of Michael Brown, we must first acknowledge that we have a race issue we are not addressing.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Death

• The best part of basketball, for those people on the inside, is the bus going to the airport after you've won a game on an opponent's floor. It's been a very tough battle. And preferably, in the playoffs. And that feeling that you have, together as a group, having gone to an opponent's floor and won a very good victory, is as about as high as you can get.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • People
  • Good
  • Together

• We have a very interesting and very serious potential international partner.

  

  Viktor Vekselberg
  • Serious
  • Partner
  • International

• My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever did anything like that.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Father