Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Anne Tyler

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

Ambrose Bierce

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Anna Quindlen

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Amy Tan

My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.

Anthony Anderson

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

Anais Nin

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

Anne Hathaway

I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.

Anita Shreve

Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions ...

Angelina Jolie

Second to my children, spending time with refugees and other persons of need around the world has been the greatest gift, ... It's been the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

Duke Ramey

This has been the greatest waste of human resources I've ever seen.

Nina Bawden

There are many times when I think I would have rather died with my husband. It would have been pleasanter, simpler. But it would have been worse for the children and the family in general.

Samantha Bond

My best friend is my husband.

Louise Erdrich

Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west. The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire.

Helen Garner

But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.

Henry Giroux

I know she [Hillary Clinton] comes out of a legacy with her husband in which the Democratic Party did more, it seems to me, to subjugate blacks to the dynamics of oppression, poverty. The mass incarceration state.

Henry Giroux

The real question is, until [Hillary Clinton] faces that legacy and admits that what her husband did was absolutely in the interest of a white supremacist nation, to put it bluntly, I just don't trust her.

Hedda Hopper

I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

Hedy Lamarr

I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.

Hector Hugh Munro

A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Sarah MacLean

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.