Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Sanger

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

Margaret Mead

In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.

Margaret Mead

As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was not so. We know of no people who have succeeded for long in dissolving the family or displacing it.

Margaret Mead

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

Margaret Mead

the task of each family is also the task of all humanity. This is to cherish the living, remember those who have gone before, and prepare for those who are not yet born.

Margaret Mead

where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own future when, out of negligence or contempt, it overlooks the need of children to be reared in a family ... or when, in the midst of plenty, some families cannot give their children adequate food and shelter, safe activity and rest, and an opportunity to grow into full adulthood as people who can care for and cherish other human beings like themselves.

Margaret Mead

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

Margaret Mead

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.

Margaret Drabble

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Kin Hubbard

Many a family tree needs trimming

Michael Enzi

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

Michael Symon

My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.

Eileen collins

I had been gone from my family and I sort of want to make it up to them this summer and spend a good summer with my family.

Alan Faneca

I had friends and family who lost their homes. My home was OK. I live just outside the city.

It has transformed my whole family and showed us how important it is to be generous to others and give of yourself.

It helps if you live by your family. I mean, this is the first one away from my family.

It has not been decided. His family - his wife and son - are taking the decision.

It has been one of our major objectives to hold the price of tickets. Our mission is to provide affordable, family fun, and we will hold prices as long as we possibly can.

Jim Zorn

I just talked to him while he was on the recruiting trail for Texas Tech, and obviously there were no signs of anything that would go wrong. We just lost a really good friend. He's got a great family in Rhonda, Sterling and Aaron. Rhonda is a very strong woman, and I can imagine she is handling this very well. Whatever well would mean in this case, but I know she is a strong woman.

I personally want to have children. I love children, and I simply can't wait to have a family of my own.

Jacqueline Novogratz

By helping a woman, you help a family.

Clearly, we are sorry for the loss of this student and our heartfelt condolences go out to her family and friends.

because a family member worked at the Exxon plant.

James Fox

I'm lucky I've been able to spend a lot of time with my family.

Domhnall Gleeson

I'm pleased to say I grew up in a happy family in Dublin. I feel we're very close.

Serinda Swan

I moved to Hawaii when I was fourteen. And I was there for a year and then I was just sort of on and off after that, just because I had friends and family there.

Rudy Gay

I'm only down there for one reason. I love my family, but my team is my family right now.

Steve Alford

I'm just glad we're not playing in the Family Friends Arena, or whatever that thing is called.

I'm just happy to be free. I just want to be with my family.

I'm from an Indian family of professionals, and my parents had to go through hardships themselves to send me to IIT-Mumbai.

I'm sorry for everything. What happened shouldn't have happened. I wish it would have been me that got the bullet. I want to thank her family for watching over the children, not for me, but for Andrea.

I?m sad. I?m sad for (the Rodriguez) family. I?m sad that my family had to go through this, ... The truth set me free.