Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mallory Ortberg

I'm forgetful by nature and often ask family, friends, and co-workers the same question.

John Adams

I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers.

John Adams

As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families.

John Adams

Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but feeling all a Fathers Tenderness, longing to be at home that I might enquire and consider and take the Care I ought.

John Adams

I am well pleased with what I hear of you: The principal Satisfaction I can expect in Life, in future will be in your good Behavior and that of my other Children. My Hopes from all of you are very agreable. God grant, I may not be disappointed.

John Adams

If my superiors shall permit me to come home, I hope it will be soon; if they mean I should stay abroad, I am not able to say what I shall do, until I know in what capacity. One thing is certain, that I will not live long without my family.

And now this word to all of you: You should be like one big happy family, full of sympathy toward each other, loving one another with tender hearts and humble minds

A lot is at stake this weekend. This is our only home tournament, so it means a lot to play well in front of family and friends.

The gentleman is a suspect in the case. We are still searching for him. Even his family does not know where he is.

Helen Fisher

The double-income family was the standard. We are really moving back to the past.

The first thing we made were squares that we made into a family afghan.

This is our fifth year, and we have had really good turnouts. It's a family-oriented event. It's such a wide selection of people.

This is a great family event. It's fun for the kids and educational for adults.

Adrienne Clarkson

This has made me feel even a greater part of your family.

Jeff Nelson

This is a joke, ... I got four little girls. I'm a family man. I've been in the game too long to know not to jump on anybody.

Don Cooper

All I know is if my family isn't there, I'm not the same guy. And I don't have to throw a pitch.

Emo Philips

I love my family. I came home the other days. My brother's passed-out on the couch, holding an empty bottle of sleeping pills. So I called the paramedics, and they pumped his stomach, and I think he's learned his lesson: you know, never to take my last two sleeping pills.

Friedrich Schiller

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Lord Chesterfield

Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.

Play is a universal language. It gives a sense of joy in being alive. It is one of the healthiest things we have in our culture. When we play, we give a gift of joy to another. Happy and joyous family times are a unifying force. They increase closeness and positive feelings. They increase loyalty to the family team. Everyone relaxes and feels more alive. Love just happens when you're having fun together!

John Cheever

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

Emilia Clarke

You come from a happy family; you want to create a happy family.

You can't have a harder situation in your life than what his family went through,

Lesley Nicol

Visiting a show that's already established can be a bit daunting, as they've been a family already, and you're the newbie.

We feel lucky, ... I thought 'Here's a man who loves his family and is going to move his family to a place with people he doesn't even know.'

We feel lucky, ... I thought, 'Here's a man who loves his family and is going to move his family to a place with people he doesn't even know.'

John Young

You get the family together that hasn't been together and there's drinking. Tempers can flair and old issues can come to the surface - old grievances, old axes-to-grind.

Peter Cullen

I kind of modeled Optimus Prime's voice out of many people I had known over the years, my family especially.

P. L. Travers

My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.

Pat Burns

They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.

Paul Butcher

The cast of 'Zoey 101' are like a family to me.

Paul Broun

I represent poor people, I represent working people. I represent senior citizens. I represent family businesses. I represent people who don't have the wherewithal to hire overpriced Washington lobbyists and lawyers. I want to send the powers back to the states and the people.

Malachy McCourt

In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.