Famous Quotes & Sayings

It turns out chimps have the same (genetic) sequence as that family with the speech deficit.

President Ford, Mrs. Ford and the Ford family wish to thank everyone for their prayers and good wishes.

Luke Young

Saturday was a big day for myself and my family - it was a qualifier which made it more pressure on myself,

Jacqueline Novogratz

By helping a woman, you help a family.

Clearly, we are sorry for the loss of this student and our heartfelt condolences go out to her family and friends.

because a family member worked at the Exxon plant.

Being in the infantry is hard on family life. I want to get married someday and I want to be around for my family.

Jenny Lewis

Being in a band is a really magical thing because you've got a family and you operate as this one entity. It's very democratic; everyone is involved in the output. But within that, there can be a lot of disagreements and strife.

His management team likely sat down and said you have to show you're a family man and a team player, interested in doing the right thing by your family and teammates. And that resonates to a photo op.

John Kehoe

His family was everything to him. He'd do anything for them. And he did.

His family meant so much to him. We're going to miss him.

Barry Gibb

But I always wanted to get married and have a family even when I was 13.

Harry Belafonte

John say's it's James who started first, James tells the story in reverse. I drag my belt from off me waist, you should have heard dem screaming round de place.

Guy Lafleur

When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.

Ginni Rometty

I think 'Actions speak louder than words' is one thing, I think, I always took from my mom. And to this day, I think about that in everything I do.

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.

George Eliot

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Gabriel Iglesias

We can choose our family. We can't choose our relatives.

Fred Allen

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

Frank Knox

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

Frank Pittman

Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.

Frank Pittman

Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.

Frank Pittman

Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones who will be carrying it out for you. A family without a storyteller or two has no way to make sense out of their past and no way to get a sense of themselves.

Chris Hardwick

There's not many a man who would get shot and then come visit the family responsible.

Christina Rossetti

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.

Chris Tucker

It was like a family reunion, watching the movie. It's always a good feeling when I can get a screening for my family.

Hillary Clinton

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

Evelyn Waugh

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

Evan Esar

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.