Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Thorogood

My parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.

George Carlin

I'm sure Hitler was great with his family.

George Carlin

Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.

Gail Sheehy

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

Frank Smith

It is infinitely more useful for a child to hear a story told by a person than by computer. Because the greatest part of the learning experience lies not in the particular words of the story but in the involvement with the individual reading it.

George Eliot

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.

Felix Adler

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

Fannie Hurst

Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?

Fannie Hurst

Family. A snug kind of word.

Faith Hill

The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.

Francis Bacon

... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

Jean Shepherd

The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They had inbred and ingrown and finally emerged from the Kentucky hills like some remnant of Attila the Hung's barbarian horde. Flick said that they had webbed feet and only three toes. It might have been true.

Golda Meir

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

Gerald Durrell

A house is not a home until it has a dog.

Harriet Lerner

You can't evaluate a prospective partner if you insulate your relationship from your family and friends--and his.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

a true gentleman ... was characterized as the man that asks the fewest questions. This trait of refined society might be adopted into home-like in a far greater degree than it is, and make it far more agreeable.

Hortense Calisher

In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.

Hosea Ballou

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Horace

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

He's lying in the hospital, shot twice, fighting for his life. He would give the shirt off his back to help anybody. Our whole family is traumatized.

He's a real good friend of mine. I don't know if he and his family got out.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

George Bernard Shaw

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

George Bernard Shaw

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

George Bernard Shaw

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

George Bernard Shaw

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Suzanne Somers

Browsing our local farmer's market is one of my family's favorite weekend activities. Make it a relaxing, healthful habit for your family, and you'll reap the nutritional rewards.

DeAngelo Williams

Breast cancer, whether I like it or not, is part of my family's story. That's why I am so passionate about raising awareness, because I have seen firsthand how it can impact others.

Everything happens for a reason. I thank the Lord my family is safe; just really thank the Lord.

Everything I have is here. My family is the most important thing.

Dusty Baker

Besides, ... I knew his family had come down to see him, and I wanted to get him in the game.

Steve Erickson

Being the family's literate one, my wife doesn't watch television much, preferring third-world novels, though she'll sit in now and then when I have on Jon Stewart.