Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Kin Hubbard

Many a family tree needs trimming

Michael Enzi

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

Michael Symon

My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.

Maureen O'Hara

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

Maya Angelou

My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.

Maya Angelou

Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack.

Matthew McConaughey

My whole family are hams. They're storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

Marilynne Robinson

I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.

Maria Montessori

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Plautus

That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.

Plato

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Paula Abdul

For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.

Phil McGraw

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he's held up by the others until he regains his footing.

LeBron James

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

LeBron James

I can't play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they think I should do. That doesn't make me happy. What makes me happy is being able to make plays for my teammates, to be able to represent the name on the back of my jersey.

Lance Armstrong

I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters.

Lisa Unger

You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name.

Johnny Cash

My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.

John Updike

Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle.

John Oates

I have a great family, I live an amazing life.

Martin Luther

Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

Marilyn French

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

Nancy Astor

When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"

Peter De Vries

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

Penelope Leach

Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.

Penelope Leach

Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too.

Marlo Thomas

Every child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family.

Marie Antoinette

one's enjoyment is doubled when one can share it with a friend - and where can one find a more affectionate, a more intimate friend than in one's own family?