My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.
Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had.
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums.
The lazy part of me would love to do a sitcom where I could work three days a week and make a fortune.
The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all.
I'm really happy with everything that I've been fortunate enough to do and with the creative outlets I've been blessed to have.
I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
So long as fortune is favouring you, your defects will remain covered.
I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.
Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.
I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out.
