Famous Quotes & Sayings

The idea is to help one family for a year,

Henry Adams

His brothers were the type; he was the variation.

Helen Hayes

Our house was always filled with dogs... They helped make our house a kennel, it is true, but the constant patter of their filthy paws and the dreadful results of their brainless activities have warmed me throughout the years.

And a friend of our family recommended acting. He thought I would be good at it. I started to study and then I just fell madly in love with it.

The husband being the head of the family has it under his obligation to look after the whole family.

John Marshall

The events of my life are too unimportant, and have too little interest for any person not of my immediate family, to render them worth communicating or preserving.

The high point is praying with the family and giving them the keys. It's pretty emotional.

The hardest part being on the sub is not being with family and friends for a long time. It's not a normal life. It's a sailor's life.

The imperial family is the only treasure of the Japanese people.

James Gray

The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.

Siri Hustvedt

The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness.

A good family friend knew them and took us there. It was fun.

A golf shot simply doesn't mean that much. When I look at Stewart, I see a man who has a great relationship with God, who loves his family and is a role model. Guys like him give the Tour a good name.

You were a part of our family. I forgive you, please look at me. I know this was an accident.

Maria Montessori

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Plautus

That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.

Plato

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Paula Abdul

For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.

Phil McGraw

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he's held up by the others until he regains his footing.

LeBron James

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

LeBron James

I can't play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they think I should do. That doesn't make me happy. What makes me happy is being able to make plays for my teammates, to be able to represent the name on the back of my jersey.

Lance Bass

I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.

Lance Armstrong

I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters.

Lisa Unger

You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name.

Johnny Cash

My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.

John Updike

Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle.

John Oates

I have a great family, I live an amazing life.

James Joyce

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

James Q. Wilson

Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening or fear-inspiring father.

James Q. Wilson

The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every society into which historians or anthropologists have inquired, one finds people living together on the basis of kinship ties and having responsibility for raising children. . . . Even in societies where men and women have relatively unrestricted sexual access to one another beginning at an early age, marriage is still the basis for family formation. It is desired by the partners and expected by society.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

there is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.

Libba Bray

When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.