Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Allen

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

Frank Knox

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

Frank Pittman

Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.

Frank Pittman

Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.

Frank Pittman

Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones who will be carrying it out for you. A family without a storyteller or two has no way to make sense out of their past and no way to get a sense of themselves.

Chris Hardwick

There's not many a man who would get shot and then come visit the family responsible.

Christina Rossetti

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.

Indra Nooyi

I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so...My husband and I have been married for 34 years, and we have two daughters. And every day you have to make a decision about whether you are going to be a wife or a mother. In fact, many times during the day you have to make those decisions...We co-opted our families to help us. We plan our lives meticulously so we can be decent parents. But if you ask our daughters, I'm not sure they will say that I've been a good mom.

Certainly, there are people whose family members were on the plane that want the heroism that transpired that day to be public knowledge.

Michelle Morgan

Hopefully one day he might look back on it or if something like this were to happen to his family and he would understand what he did was devastating to somebody else.

Jenji Kohan

Home is where your family is. Wherever you are, it's about the people you're surrounded by, not necessarily where you lay your head.

John Edgar Wideman

Home wasn't so much a house as people, family.

He's lying in the hospital, shot twice, fighting for his life. He would give the shirt off his back to help anybody. Our whole family is traumatized.

He's a real good friend of mine. I don't know if he and his family got out.

Frank Zappa

Mama stroked his dinger, Daddy got stinky finger.

Jeanette Winterson

unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

Jim Carrey

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

Jet Li

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

Jeff Cooper

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

George Bernard Shaw

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

George Bernard Shaw

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

George Bernard Shaw

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

George Bernard Shaw

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Erica Jong

It was the old psychosomatic side-step. Everyone in my family dances it at every opportunity. You've given me a splitting headache! You've given me indigestion! You've given me crotch rot! You've given me auditory hallucinations! You've given me a heart attack! You've given me cancer!

Erica Jong

we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.

Enrique Iglesias

It's the one thing we can all relate to no matter what religion, what color, what nationality: we can all relate to sex and love.

Eminem

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

Eminem

The parents are pissed, but the kids love it.

Eminem

Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel.

Eminem

I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.