Top 100 My Dad Is My King Quotes
#1. At six o'clok the young King's terrible sufferings finally ended. After his eyes had closed for the last time, the tempeste raged on. Later, superstitious folk claimed that Henry himself had sent it, and had risen from his grave in anger at the subversion of his will.
Alison Weir
#2. Sometimes that
which we fear
strengthens our
spirit and gives
us a splash
of hope.
Harley King
#3. By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.
Stephen King
#4. The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?
Dennis C. Blair
#6. I have a dream. I have a dream that one day, people will be judged by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#7. Of course Stephen King doesn't believe in teen novels. I've started to suspect he doesn't even believe in teenagers.
Robin Wasserman
#8. Suddenly, it occurred to me that my feelings towards the little man were distinctly maternal. Good God, I thought, how utterly revolting, and I turned my mind firmly to the problem at hand.
Laurie R. King
#9. Lydia shook her head. "This is my life. Getting yelled at in a Walmart parking lot on a Friday night by somebody doing a bad impression of PG-13 fart-joke-movie comedian.
Jeff Zentner
#10. When the autumn meets the tranquillity, there you can see the King of the Sceneries!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#11. Morgan and Catcher said their manly hellos - consisting of a symbolic head bob from Catcher (of the "You're in my lair now" variety) and a responding nod from Morgan (of the "You are clearly the king of this castle" variety).
Chloe Neill
#12. He is a true King who has the Freedom to do anything! -RVM
R.v.m.
#13. I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.
Ernest Cline
#14. You take a chance to do something and you realize in your heart it's either going to be the greatest thing that ever happened or the worst thing that ever happened. It won't be an in between, I almost made a hit. It will be an instant flop or an instant success.
Ben E. King
#15. Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear when philosophers won't even deign to share their thoughts with kings.
Thomas More
#16. I opened the door of the Mercedes and got in. Man, that smell. It's leather, but not just leather. You know how, in Monopoly, there's a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card? When you're rich enough to afford a car that smells like Mr. Sharpton's gray Mercedes, you must have a Get-Out-of-Everything-Free card.
Stephen King
#18. I call you domina because that's what you are," Samuel insisted.
"It's what I was. Now I'm just Brie. What if I only called you pathfinder?
Kenya Wright
#19. When we rise in the morning ... at the table we drink coffee which is provided to us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African; before we leave for our jobs we are already beholden to more than half the world.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#20. Tonight feels like a board game co-designed by M. C. Escher on a bender and Stephen King in a fever.
David Mitchell
#21. Don't speak to them in the language of the dead, Mr. Marinville.
Stephen King
#23. Not for a million - years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality television has eaten away at our standards of excellence. I don't like this whole culture, which has evolved, of TV being the king.
Brian May
#24. The worst thing about wishes is that sometimes they come true
Stephen King
#26. New skin is a miracle. It's proof that we can heal.
A.S. King
#27. No one dared do it before, not in front of the King (opening sentence)
Gordon Thomas
#28. Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#29. It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.
Billie Jean King
#30. There's nothing inherently interesting about being a drunk
in fact, quite the contrary.
Heather King
#32. The one who reigns must die,
At the hands of she born last,
And the last will make the first,
When the bastard twins are one,
And blessed be the newborn King,
For Charyn will be barren no more.
Melina Marchetta
#33. Well, Monsieur Laporte placed her near her Majesty in order that our poor queen might at least have someone in whom she could place confidence, abandoned as she is by the king, watched as she is by the cardinal, betrayed as she is by everybody." "Ah, ah!
Alexandre Dumas
#34. You should never trust a person who prays in public.
Stephen King
#35. If I got to you once, I can do it again. And maybe next time I won't waste my breath trying to prove the fact that I'm your equal."
"I am the King, you realize."
"And I'm the daughter of a deity, motherfucker.
J.R. Ward
#36. When you lose the title, that doesn't mean you lose the contract to what you had. Just like when you win the title, it doesn't mean you win brains, PhDs and MAs.
Don King
#37. There was no miracle that night ...
Ed King
#38. You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think
I did
that God put you on earth to blow your father away.
Stephen King
#39. Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent
Martin Luther King Jr.
#40. This record was supposed to come out in July already, but it just got delayed and delayed, so, well, I guess it was just coincidence.
Kerry King
#42. Just as love makes you blind so does wealth, and of the two blindnesses wealth is the worse because of the incalculable harm it is able to do to people other than yourself.
Rufus King
#43. Abruptly he started the car and put it in gear and drove away, trying not to look back. And of course he did, and of course the porch was empty. They had gone back inside. It was as if the Overlook had swallowed them.
Stephen King
#44. Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.
Bruce Springsteen
#45. Why, if one were Queen, would one ever want to marry? If one is ruler, is it not better to both King and Queen? That is exactly what a woman can do if she remains without a mate.
Kathryn Lasky
#46. Anyone who wants to prevent you from making other people happy is an enemy. If you are stopping yourself from making others happy, you are your own enemy.
Israelmore Ayivor
#47. Boredom can be a very good thing for someone in a creative jam.
Stephen King
#48. She's held onto her sobriety better than she held into her husband.
Stephen King
#49. We also call upon the king to hand over power to the political parties and for the political parties to shoulder their responsibility and turn the people's demands for democracy and good governance into reality.
Joseph Adam Ereli
#51. Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then dismissed him from his presence. Death was too embarrassed to return until many years later- Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances
Diana Wynne Jones
#52. Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, with all appliances and means to boot, deny it to a king?
William Shakespeare
#53. The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking.
Richard King
#54. As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.
Stephen King
#55. I had a moment of religious epiphanosity.
Don King
#56. No cursing," I scolded him. "You're a knight. You don't get to do that. You gave up that right when you swore your oath to the King. You have to lead by example now. So say stuff like 'fudge toast' and 'mothercrackers' instead of 'shit whore' and 'fuck storm.
T.J. Klune
#57. I knew now: there would be no damnation that I did not forge for myself, and no fall so great that it could be without hope.
M. King
#58. I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.
Lily King
#59. That one smooth black eye stared, and reflected in it I fancied I could see the cyclopeon city, and the endless column of the marching dead.
Stephen King
#61. Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention.
Andrew Carnegie
#62. We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.
Alveda King
#63. You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.
Stephen King
#64. I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.
Richard King
#65. Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated that in dollar volume, the annual outlay is now practically double what it was before the war.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
#66. The two-minute disparity prematurely aged Adam Parrish. He liked it when people knew how to do their jobs.
"Say something," Gansey said.
"That bell."
"Everything is terrible," agreed Gansey.
Maggie Stiefvater
#67. You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz
Ian Hislop
#68. He loves to be the center of attention. I hate it. He is the king of the school. I do not want to be the queen. I
Kasie West
#69. A nation has to take its natural course
Of Progress round and round in circles
From King to Mob to King to Mob to King
Until the eddy of it eddies out.
Robert Frost
#70. Sometimes memory is the only gift we give ourselves and the only hope we have of finding our way home.
Harley King
#71. The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties.
Charles I Of England
#72. Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate.
Brown nodded. "I think this is it.
Stephen King
#75. Why had he wanted to be rich, or to feel rich? Was he an unhappy mouse before? Didn't he see the King himself often looking sad? Was anyone completely happy?
William Steig
#77. Every library is a palace; every book is a king; every reading is a magic!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#78. King Cygnus dozed in his chair, and a dark shadow curled up in the window seat. That dark shadow happened to have a name, which happened to be Darcy; but nobody really notices dark shadows, even named ones. They have a habit of lurking about. People learn to ignore them after a while.
Emma Clifton
#79. I was raised to be polite, but not to suffer bullshit.
Stephen King
#80. The expression Jake saw on all the faces, oldest to youngest, was the same: pure joy. Not just that, he thought, and remembered a phrase his English teacher had used about how some books make us feel: the ecstasy of perfect recognition.
Stephen King
#81. King Henry VIII, who said to his lawyer, Forget the alimony, I've got a better idea. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#82. Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear out but clothes, To keep one from going nude.
Benjamin Franklin King Jr.
#84. Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.
Alveda King
#85. People kept on talking about the true king of Ankh-Morpork, but history taught a cruel lesson. It said - often in words of blood - that the true king was the one who got crowned."
Terry Pratchett
#86. A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Billie Jean King
#87. [Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#88. If Pete Simmons had been twenty, he might have asked a lot of bullshit questions that didn't matter.
Stephen King
#89. Don't readjust your contacts. No, that is not the slow hyena from The Lion King. That is my four-pound best friend.
Mamrie Hart
#90. If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.
Idries Shah
#91. Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.
John Rhys-Davies
#92. Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.
Oscar Wilde
#93. Segregation ... not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually ... It scars the soul ... It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying 'You are less than ... 'You are not equal to ... '
Martin Luther King Jr.
#94. The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.
Stephen King
#95. Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you and, if you can, about transforming individuals so that they love unconditionally.
Coretta Scott King
#96. I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.
David Friedman
#97. I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.
Edward VIII
#98. It's amazing - and poignant - to think that Leonardo (da Vinci)did consider himself as something of a failure. He didn't believe that he had achieved everything he might have done. His notebooks have a repeated refrain: 'Tell me if I ever did a thing.
Ross King
#99. But the one thing that totally drew me in was his eyes. They were green but it wasn't the color that I was fascinated by, but something inside them made me feel like I didn't want to look away.
Something seemed to be pulling me toward
him.
Jennifer Whitfield
#100. It's true what they say - sometimes the neuros are crazier than the patients.
Stephen King
