Famous Quotes & Sayings

Moss Hart

There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.

Jim Rohn

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

George Kotsiopoulos

I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing.

Elizabeth Fishel

Every articulate family ... generates its own stories, explanations and myths to illuminate the differences in temperament and talent among its children, the lines of allegiance and influence between parent and child.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.

Elizabeth Gilbert

we must take care of our families wherever we find them.

Ekaterina Gordeeva

Through everything when you have these experiences in life it is important to remember the simple fact that family is always the main thing and most important part of your life.

John Conyers

We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease, and hunger. Untold numbers of our friends, our neighbors, our parents, and our children, are hoping that there is more understanding, more generosity, more genuine friendship, and more caring among people of all faiths and cultures.

Joel Osteen

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

Linda Gray

I think people love shows that are relationship-oriented. I think they love family shows.

Lauren Hutton

No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!

Joyce Maynard

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

Joseph Story

Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law . . . . It is the parent, and not the child of society; the source of civility and a sort of seminary of the republic.

Joseph Stiglitz

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

Karl Rove

It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

Mother Teresa

I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.

Mike Judge

There was a time when cell animation was poison, but after Family Guy now everyone wants it.

Mike Krzyzewski

I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.

Pearl S. Buck

The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

Peace Pilgrim

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Penelope Cruz

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

Penelope Cruz

It's great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family - my brother, my sister and myself. We have a great relationship.

Payne Stewart

We grew up with so much love in our family.

Phyllis Diller

In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.

Pippa Middleton

It sounds funny to say, but we saw [Kate's wedding to Prince William] as just a family wedding. And actually, I didn't realize - perhaps - the scale of it until afterwards. We all took on the roles as any family would.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Han Suyin

A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings ...

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.

John Madden

As I look back now on my coaching career, I think of my family, I think of the days that we spent together. I say this to coaches everywhere: If you ever have a chance to take your kids with you, take them. Don't miss that opportunity. Because when it's all over and done with, when you look back, those are going to be your fondest memories.

John Lydon

I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now...

John Legend

A just society is not one built on fear or repression or vengeance or exclusion, but one built on love. Love for our families. Love for our neighbors. Love for the least among us. Love for those who look different or worship differently. Love for those we don't even know.

John Lennon

Father, you left me, but I never left you.