Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.

Henry David Thoreau

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

H. L. Mencken

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Jilly Cooper

Youve simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether theyll be there tomorrow, do you?

Jessica Lange

Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.

Jessica Lange

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

Jessica Lange

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

Jerry Falwell

God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

Jerry Falwell

When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.

Esther Hicks

The most important thing that you can teach your children is that Well-being abounds. And that Well-being is naturally flowing to them.

Erma Bombeck

I read one psychologist's theory that said, "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?

Erma Bombeck

To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.

Erma Bombeck

The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

Erma Bombeck

Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.

Erma Bombeck

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

Erma Bombeck

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

Erma Bombeck

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Erma Bombeck

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Florence King

Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.

Florence Nightingale

The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for- its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.

Helen Keller

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

Helen Keller

When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.

Cat Stevens

From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.

Catharine Beecher

The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism, free love, free divorce, the vicious indulgences consequent on unregulated civilization, the worldliness which tempts men and women to avoid large families, often by sinful methods, thus making the ignorant masses the chief supply of the future ruling majorities; and most powerful of all, the feeble constitution and poor health of women, causing them to dread maternity as--what it is fast becoming--an accumulation of mental and bodily tortures.

Gore Vidal

The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.

James Brown

Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.

James Boswell

I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.

Jacques Delille

Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

James G. Frazer

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Izaak Walton

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Elton John

My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

Jeff Cooper

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.