Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lyndon B. Johnson

The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled. So, unless we work to strengthen the family, to create conditions under which most parents will stay together, all the rest - schools, playgrounds, and public assitance, and private concern - will never be enough.

Ludacris

Somebody tell my fam I got a gambling problem.

Lord Byron

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

M. F. K. Fisher

Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy ...

Lord Chesterfield

Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.

Malcolm Forbes

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.

Og Mandino

Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical as my daughter's observing, while our family was driving through an unfamiliar city, "Trying to read a map while driving causes all the traffic lights to turn green."

Orlando Aloysius Battista

Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

Novak Djokovic

I'm happy, my family's happy, everything is going well.

Novak Djokovic

Serbian history tells that family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.

Norman Vincent Peale

Families, like individuals, are unique.

Emily Giffin

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

Haywood Nelson

My family was my guide to my reality.

Hazel Scott

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

Hesiod

When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.

Henry Ford

My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.

Henry Ward Beecher

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Henry Ward Beecher

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Joe Manchin

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

Jimi Hendrix

Click bang, what a hang, your daddy just shot poor me.

Jimi Hendrix

I'm up here in this womb, I'm looking all around. We'll, I'm looking out my belly button window and I see a whole lot of frowns.

Jimi Hendrix

You may almost forget the smell of your family.

Emma Roberts

I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.

Emma Thompson

[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children.

Emma Thompson

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

Heidi Klum

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.