Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Joel

Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.

Edmond Rostand

Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreaths Rise from the hearthstones of our native hamlets Cyrano Act 5.

Earl Wilson

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back

David Draiman

I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and a God with one hell of a sense of humor. You have all made me what I am today. Let that weigh heavily on your consciences.

Antonio Tabucchi

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

Deepak Chopra

Success, wealth, good health and nurturing relationships are by-products of happiness, not the cause.

Edward Furlong

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

Edgar Friedenberg

Those who love the young best stay young longer.

Ed Westwick

I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

Edward Kennedy

I hate to see a young man get ahead on the basis of a famous family name.

Benjamin Spock

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

Carlos Ghosn

I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

Jonathan Davis

When Family Values first started it felt like music was fresh and exciting. We want to recreate that same feeling for our fans, and offer them a full day of fun and some great music.

We want her back. Our family is aching.

Agnes Smedley

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

Agnes Smedley

But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family. I forgot the songs they sung - and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue; I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now - yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.

Charles Dudley Warner

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Chevy Chase

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

Charles Lamb

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity.

Charles Lamb

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

Chanakya

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Chanakya

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Chaim Potok

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

A married man with a family will do anything for money.

Lennon Parham

My family is from a tiny town in Alabama. So all I wanted to do was get out of this town.

Nathaniel Buzolic

I really miss the Australian lifestyle and being around my friends and family.

Nia Peeples

I knew that I always wanted a family, but I can honestly say that it's nothing like I imagined it would be.

Nia Long

I'm not going to live my life unhappy and why should he and we talk about it and I think what's great about the film is that it shows is the meaning of family doesn't have to be as traditional as it once was, like you can make a family.

Lisa Vidal

When I'm home, I'm just mom. We're a normal, regular family doing normal, regular types of things.

Watching me, she got kind of nervous for the first game. Then she got kind of relaxed when she saw the way I played. It was good to have my family see where I'm living and how I'm living.

Ed Young

We've always had obstacles to overcome. But we're a family and we stick together.

We're so scattered all over the country--have a family plan of how you're going to notify each other and keep in touch.