Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Connick, Jr.

[My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, but also incredibly strong-willed and ethical. My mother was like that, my sister is, and my wife is too.

Gwen Stefani

At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.

Gwyneth Paltrow

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

Skip Bertman

He's just been a winner in every way. He's a good family man, a great communicator and the kids just love him. He has all that in tow.

Sam Jones

House rules are, every man has a right to come into the system and do his time without having to worry about being attacked, injured or ultimately murdered. I told them I owed them that, and I owed their family and friends that.

Dan Savage

How can two gay guys be in favor of legal same-sex marriage and huge fans of the traditional family without wanting to marry?

Carmelo Anthony

Family time is the best time.

I come from a highly moral family. I was very much taught what was right and wrong, and in my perception of things, I did something that was very wrong. To know that, and to then be so publicly exposed, was very hard.

Oprah Winfrey

This season don't get lost in making the perfect meal or become overwhelmed with all the folks in your house. Use this time to center yourself.

Olivia Newton-John

Family, nature and health all go together.

Oliver Hudson

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

Kieran Culkin

The whole family is tight. We all really love each other.

Oscar Wilde

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Mitt Romney

The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.

Mitt Romney

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.

R. D. Laing

Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.

Princess Diana

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

Mitch Albom

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

Mitch Albom

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

Mitch Albom

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

Mitch Albom

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

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.

Gore Vidal

The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.

James Brown

Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.

James Boswell

I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.

Jacques Delille

Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

James G. Frazer

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Izaak Walton

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Gary Vaynerchuk

People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.