Famous Quotes & Sayings

TobyMac

I want to fight for what we got because I believe in family.

Russell M. Nelson

When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections are fulfilled when we are linked to our ancestors...

Stephen Colbert

Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York City. I'm not saying New York is the Gay Mecca. But it's at least Gay-rusalem.

Thomas Hardy

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

Thomas Hardy

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

Victoria Justice

My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.

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.

Sophocles

Everything is ideal to its parent.

Taylor Lautner

It's definitely important to stay true to yourself and stay close to those people who you were close to before [becoming famous]. Family, your friends, and just not let that outside stuff get to you.

Stephanie Coontz

... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.

Stephanie Coontz

Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.

Soren Kierkegaard

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Taylor Caldwell

I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.

Tami Hoag

Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

Tacitus

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Sylvia Porter

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

T. Berry Brazelton

Families need families. Parents need to be parented. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles are back in fashion because they are necessary. Stresses on many families are out of proportion to anything two parents can handle.

Rosalynn Carter

There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.

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.

Stendhal

People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of anextreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.

Sigourney Weaver

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

Sigmund Freud

Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.

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.

Stevie Wonder

Isn't she lovely made from love?

Susan Lucci

I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio, Valentino, De Niro, Giuliani. . .