Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jaclyn Smith

I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.

Eva Burrows

The love of a family is life's greatest blessing

Eva Burrows

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction...

Eva Burrows

Those who think the family has had its day should think again.

Eva Burrows

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

Jenny Eclair

Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Fred Rogers

Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.

George H. W. Bush

A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism.

Harmon Killebrew

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

Gus Van Sant

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

Jim Bunning

A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed.

Jim Butcher

There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.

Jim Butcher

I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family.

Jim Butcher

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

Jean Charest

As the family goes, so goes society.

Jean Charest

Like the great white pines whose roots grow shallow under the forest floor, they are the first to fall in a storm; so is society whose family values are built on a shallow foundation, are the first to crumble at the first sign of trouble.

Julia Barr

We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.

Judith Guest

You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.

Kristin Hannah

As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.

Moliere

You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?

J. K. Rowling

One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.

H. L. Mencken

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Grace Kelly

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

Ja Rule

If pain is truly love, for my family I die.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

Jerry Brown

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Gerald R. Ford

The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Student: Sir, you said you must change the world. How can you change it, sir? Krishnamurti: What is the world? The world is where you live - your family, your friends, your neighbours. And your family, your friends, your neighbours can be extended and that is the world. Now, you are the centre of that world. That is the world you live in. Now how will you change the world? By changing yourself.

Chris Stapleton

I don't look at family and what I do for a living as separate things. They're all kind of one thing, and this is part of their life just like it's part of mine.

Matisyahu

I don't partake, really, of any of the typical rock-star-lifestyle things you could think of. I try to be responsible when I'm out on the road. I take it pretty seriously, what I'm doing, as something that's good for the world, and my family, and everyone.