Famous Quotes & Sayings

Molly Antopol

I come from a big family of storytellers and, growing up, I liked hearing about the years before I was born.

Ross Levinsohn

I am excited to be part of the dynamic Guggenheim family of companies.

Jill Soloway

I always wanted to do a family show.

John Tesh

I am always exhausted; I am always trying to find more time to be with my family, which is why they travel with me so much.

He was thinking of this in the medical framework of Rochester, Minn. He imagined abortions would be performed by a family physician or in a hospital.

He will be sadly missed by all his family and friends.

He taught me what it means to be accountable not only to your family and friends but your teammates and job.

He has had over 45 hours of visiting time with his wife and over 20 hours from other family members.

He had his whole family down at practice every day,

Paul DePodesta

He has family there in Georgia, and after really thinking about it, he realized he couldn't be this far away from home.

He has very high standards and strong family values.

He is down here all the time, ... He has got lots of friends and family in the area.

He is doing and accomplishing a lot of things that haven't been done in his family before. Everything he does is an obstacle.

He hasn?t shown any grief. His family has a place to stay, so we?re all right about that.

He is a great guy, a presence on the field and in the locker room. It's up to him and his family on when, and if, he is going to make a return to football.

Rafael Palmeiro

He doesn't have a family with him. He's not married. He doesn't have kids,

He essentially was panicked, and he couldn't talk right now because the family had escaped.

Sean Miller

He embarrassed our university, our program, his family and himself.

Having had that experience, why my heart goes out to him and even more so if he should be found guilty. ... I hope for the sake of his family that he is not -- but I don't know anything about the evidence.

He loved his family more than anything, and he had friends that are going to miss him forever.

He loved his family and friends, and they loved him.

He made a tearful apology, and that's the first indication I've had from that family that they regret anything that happened.

Robert Cormier

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

Russell Baker

I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.

Food became the antidote for feelings of guilt, sadness, and anger. ... Food is a resolution to controversy; food is rescue. We ate and talked and cried and laughed in the kitchen and ate again. This was about more than just food. It was about our mom making connections the best she could and in the way she knew best across the kitchen table, across time and across sadness.

Rose Macaulay

They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Willie Morris

The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

William Ruckelshaus

The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.

William S. Burroughs

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

William J. Clinton

Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.

Richard Louv

American family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of one of their parents.... Not until the sixties did the chief cause of separation of parents shift from death to divorce.

Richard Louv

We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real past, pieces reshaped by bitterness and love, and, of course, the video past--the portrayals of family life on such television programs as "Leave it to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best" and all the rest.