Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sue Grafton

People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.

Robbie Savage

I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30

Ray Bradbury

I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade.

Randy Newman

He got drunk last night, kicked Mama down the stairs. But I'm alright, so I don't care.

Randy Newman

We'll have a kid or maybe we'll rent one. He's got to be straight, we don't want a bent one.

Randy Pausch

A parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams. The best we can do is to help thm develop a personal set of tools for the task.

Serena Williams

Tennis just a game, family is forever.

Serena Williams

Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

Michelle Obama

Policies that support families aren't political issues. They're personal. They're the causes I carry with me every single day.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Sidney Poitier

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

Tom DeLay

A woman can take care of the family.

Tom DeLay

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

Tom Cruise

I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybody comes.

Smokey Robinson

Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now. My Mama told me, you better shop around.

Michael Milken

For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift.

Norman Douglas

The families of our friends are always a disappointment.

Mitch Albom

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

Mitch Albom

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

Mitch Albom

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

Mitch Albom

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

John Todd

Woman is the highest, holiest, most precious gift to man. Her mission and throne is the family, and if anything is withheld that would make her more efficient, useful, or happy in that sphere, she is wronged, and has not her rights.

Marie Curie

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

Margaret Sanger

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

Margaret Mead

In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.

Margaret Mead

As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was not so. We know of no people who have succeeded for long in dissolving the family or displacing it.

Margaret Mead

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

Margaret Mead

the task of each family is also the task of all humanity. This is to cherish the living, remember those who have gone before, and prepare for those who are not yet born.

Margaret Mead

where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own future when, out of negligence or contempt, it overlooks the need of children to be reared in a family ... or when, in the midst of plenty, some families cannot give their children adequate food and shelter, safe activity and rest, and an opportunity to grow into full adulthood as people who can care for and cherish other human beings like themselves.

Margaret Mead

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

Margaret Mead

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.

Margaret Drabble

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.