Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ken Livingstone

I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.

Kathy Ireland

I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business.

Margaret Thatcher

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends." ~ (1925- ), English political leader.

Margaret Thatcher

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Margaret Thatcher

What is right for the family is right for Britain.

Margaret Cho

It's not the best between my family and me. There are so many crimes left unpunished, debts unpaid, white elephants in the middle of the room that no one will even offer a peanut to. We are in the red, emotionally speaking.

Mark Twain

My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.

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.

Paul Gallico

When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally..

Paris Hilton

In bed watching Family Guy. Love this show.! So hilarious! Stewie is my favorite :) love his accent.

Paris Hilton

When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.

Paloma Faith

I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

A family stitched together with love seldom unravels.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.

P. J. O'Rourke

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

P. J. O'Rourke

Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

Paul Johnson

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

For someone who grew up experiencing what he did, you can fully understand why Jonathan was angry. Being with the Raich family and around his supportive teammates have taught him that life can be fun.

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.

Nancy Mitford

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

Katherine Parkinson

Family Guy is relentlessly excellent.

Ken Dodd

Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.

E. O. Wilson

The relationship between my family and the Mariners' family has been amazing. Our relationship is not over, just changing. I look forward to staying involved in some way, shape or form in the years to come.

Michael Keaton

There just is not one person in my family who is not funny.