Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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?

Gloria Steinem

The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.

Gloria Steinem

I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful controls. On the contrary, I believe that hierarchy and painful controls create destructive people. And I no longer believe the liberal message that children are blank slates on which society can write anything. On the contrary, I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

Harry S Truman

No one who has not had the responsibility can really understand what it is like to be President, not even his closest aides or members of his immediate family. There is no end to the chain of responsibility that binds him, and he is never allowed to forget that he is President.

J. K. Rowling

How're we getting to King's Cross tomorrow, Dad?" asked Fred as they dug into a sumptuous pudding. "The Ministry's providing a couple of cars," said Mr. Weasley. Everyone looked up at him. "Why?" said Percy curiously. "It's because of you, Perce," said George seriously. "And there'll be little flags on the hoods, with HB on them-" "-for Humongous Bighead," said Fred.

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.

Ice harvesting was a huge thing in Waseca until the 1940s. The Johnson family harvested ice for 50 years until the late 1940s.

Linda Lewis

I couldn't even go to my family members because they're homeless, too.

I'd say it's seven hours. But I have a lot of family in Utah. I've been to BYU.

Lynsey Addario

I do think my childhood is one of the fundamental reasons that I'm able to do my job. We were raised in this totally nonjudgmental family. We never knew who was going to walk in the front door. And as a journalist and a photographer, you walk into so many different scenes that you have to be open to everything.

John Chaney

I am very, very sorry about this terrible tragedy. We are trying to reach out to his family. We are all very saddened about this.

I really feel like this is such an important story of racial healing in America, ... Somebody thought they had to leave their family to make this marriage work, and then to be fully received -- it was just a miracle, really.

Ja Rule

I prayed every night that God would keep my family safe. But as far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

Jack Straw

I profoundly regret the circumstances in which we had to hold this meeting, ... I would personally like take this opportunity to offer my own condolences to Mr. Menezes' family and friends, and condolences to the Brazilian government and people.

I probably won't wake up until June. I'm going to go home and go to sleep. It's been a rough year, but we stuck together as a family and pulled through.

In times like this, there are no words that will take away the pain of a loved one's violent death, ... Everyone in the IMB family and everyone who loves Southern Baptists' overseas workers are grieving with the family members and co-workers of these precious souls.

In Shahjahanpur, there was not much of a political fight. It was my family constituency and I knew all the voters and their problems and needs.

Tom DeLay

A woman can take care of the family.

Tom DeLay

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

Tom Cruise

I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybody comes.

Smokey Robinson

Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now. My Mama told me, you better shop around.