Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Green

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

P. J. O'Rourke

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

P. J. O'Rourke

Rich parents are famous both for miserliness and astonishing longevity. And, when they finally do die, you'll find they've left their estate in inviolate trust to the golden retrievers.

Mary Schmich

Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good.

Mary Schmich

Be nice to your siblings. They are your link to the past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.

Marsha Norman

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

Mario Puzo

Every family has bad memories.

Mario Puzo

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

Marvin Gaye

Love your mother, she bore you. Love your father, he works for you.

Oscar Wilde

The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

Madonna Ciccone

Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.

Madonna Ciccone

My father had to go to work, I used to think he was a jerk. I didn't know his heart was broken, and not another word was spoken.

Mac Davis

Before you went to work this morning in the city, did you spend some time with your family? Did you kiss your wife and tell her that she's pretty?

Lydia M. Child

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

Louis Farrakhan

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

Margaret Oliphant

Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence ...

Margaret Sanger

The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.

Michael Jackson

It's been my fate to compensate for the childhood I've never known.

Michael Jackson

Mama always told me, be careful what you do, don't go around breaking young girls hearts.

Mehmet Oz

You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.

Michel de Montaigne

It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.

Marian Wright Edelman

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

Marian Wright Edelman

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

Mark Webber

I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.

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?

Nelson Mandela

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

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.