Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura McDowell

People get very nostalgic. They're probably doing traditions that they've done in their family for years.

Megan Jones

The teams we're working with are used to working at a lot quicker pace than regular workers because they have a time crunch. We took that same outlook for this family and worked twice as hard.

Kevin Ryan

The space previously filled by the family is being filled by schools, the media and the street.

E. O. Wilson

The Southern pattern was that every farm or plantation would have their family cemetery.

Tony Blair

The thing that people understand about the royal family is the sense of service that they have,

Joshua Cohen

I've never been able to shake the idea of family, which is to say I've never been able to shake my family. Being membered - being one limb of an immense grosser body - that's always been a fact to me.

Jackie Chan

I've let my family down, but I'm very lucky. My wife has forgiven me. ... She's supported me all these years, she will do so now.

David Morse

I've always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I've always tried to get involved in the community or my family now I have kids.

Billy Connolly

I've always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. . . . My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I'm where I belong.

Debbi Fields

The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have...," I wouldn't be here today.

Steve Jobs

It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

Regina Brett

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Soren Kierkegaard

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

Sue Grafton

The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.

Johnny Mathis

When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.

John Wooden

The life lessons taught by John Wooden have become legend. Here's a collection of some of the greatest 'Woodenisms.'

Mark Lawrence

Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life--keep moving.

Bob Dole

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

Thomas Sowell

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Robert Greene

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

T. S. Eliot

Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

Sydney J. Harris

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

Thomas Jefferson

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

Richard Branson

A setback is never a bad experience, just another one of life’s lessons.

Richard Branson

Just start. You will learn so many lessons just by doing.

Tiger Woods

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today...There is no such thing as a setback. The lessons I learn today I will apply tomorrow, and I will be better.