Famous Quotes & Sayings

William J. Clinton

Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.

Sara Blakely

We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.

Saint Augustine

Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.

Ugo Betti

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

Ulysses S. Grant

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral

Robert Cormier

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

Russell Baker

I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.

Thomas S. Monson

Family prayer is the greatest deterrent to sin, and hence the most beneficent provider of joy and happiness. The old saying is yet true: 'The family that prays together stays together.'

Robert Kennedy

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

Richard M. Daley

I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

Richard Louv

American family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of one of their parents.... Not until the sixties did the chief cause of separation of parents shift from death to divorce.

Richard Louv

We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real past, pieces reshaped by bitterness and love, and, of course, the video past--the portrayals of family life on such television programs as "Leave it to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best" and all the rest.

Richard Schiff

Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.

Robert Byrd

One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.

Richard L. Evans

Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.

Tupac Shakur

If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.

Tupac Shakur

Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes.

Tupac Shakur

My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers.

Tupac Shakur

With all my fans I got a family again.

Tupac Shakur

Papa wasn't man enough, couldn't stand up to his responsibilities. Instead of taking care of me, he'd rather live lavishly.

Tupac Shakur

Even as a dope fiend mama. You always was a black queen mama.

Tupac Shakur

Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back.

Trey Parker

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.

Trey Parker

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.

Sarah Dessen

Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

Sandra Day O'Connor

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

Roger Ebert

Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with.

Rod Stewart

You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.

Roger Caras

For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog.

Vivien Leigh

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

Washington Irving

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

William Butler Yeats

No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.