Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sigourney Weaver

It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.

Sigmund Freud

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

Shirley Manson

I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!

Shere Hite

Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.

Shere Hite

Every family is a 'normal' family - no matter whether it has one parent, two or no children at all. A family can be made up of any combination of people, heterosexual or homosexual, who share their lives in an intimate (not necessarily sexual) way. ... Wherever there is lasting love, there is a family.

Shaun White

My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We've all been through so much together.

Rick Riordan

Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.

Richard Branson

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.

Tim McGraw

What are you doing son, you're gonna drive yourself insane. You'll never find the sunshine, when you're following the rain.

Tiki Barber

My family is everything to me.

Tiger Woods

As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.

Thomas Szasz

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Regina King

I stay in tune with my family and God.

Regina Brett

We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be.

Toni Morrison

Two parents can't raise a child any more than one. You need a whole community - everybody - to raise a child. And the little nuclear family is a paradigm that just doesn't work. It doesn't work for white people or for black people. Why are we hanging onto it, I don't know. It isolates people into little units - people need a larger unit.

Richard Bach

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Richard Bach

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Robert Foster Bennett

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.

Robert Frost

Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college.

Robert Fulghum

One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage.

Robert Frost

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

Robert Frost

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Robert Frost

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Robert Benchley

The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life whichdoes not include at least two hypochondriacs, one sadist, and one old man who spills food down the front of his vest.

Rita Mae Brown

Writers will happen in the best of families.

Tom Dreesen

My father told me marijuana would cause me brain damage - because if he caught me doing it he was going to break my head.

Tom Dreesen

We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway.

Tone Loc

It was her mother, I didn't know what to say, I was hanging by a string. She said, hey you two, I was once like you and liked to do the wild thing.

Steve Forbes

Start by scrapping the tax code. Don't fiddle with it. Junk it. Throw it out. Bury it. Replace it with a pro-growth, pro-family tax cut that lowers tax rates to 17% across the board and expands exemptions for individuals and children so that a family of four would pay no taxes on the first $36,000 of income.

Vanilla Ice

The most valuable lesson I've ever learned in my life is that life is about family and friends, not about material things or any of that. It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

Vanilla Ice

One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

Uzo Aduba

In performance, you dont always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.

Susannah York

Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend.