Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Q. Wilson

Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening or fear-inspiring father.

James Q. Wilson

The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every society into which historians or anthropologists have inquired, one finds people living together on the basis of kinship ties and having responsibility for raising children. . . . Even in societies where men and women have relatively unrestricted sexual access to one another beginning at an early age, marriage is still the basis for family formation. It is desired by the partners and expected by society.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

there is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.

Libba Bray

When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

Friedrich Schiller

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Lord Chesterfield

Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.

Play is a universal language. It gives a sense of joy in being alive. It is one of the healthiest things we have in our culture. When we play, we give a gift of joy to another. Happy and joyous family times are a unifying force. They increase closeness and positive feelings. They increase loyalty to the family team. Everyone relaxes and feels more alive. Love just happens when you're having fun together!

John Cheever

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

Emilia Clarke

You come from a happy family; you want to create a happy family.

You can't have a harder situation in your life than what his family went through,

You can take off when you want, but you also have to work sometimes when you don't want to. You've got to have a spouse and a family that's understanding of that.

Candice Olson

The type of renovation I do most often is opening a kitchen to the family room.

These are personal situations. They are family situations, people have to talk to their spouses and their children.

And now this word to all of you: You should be like one big happy family, full of sympathy toward each other, loving one another with tender hearts and humble minds

A lot is at stake this weekend. This is our only home tournament, so it means a lot to play well in front of family and friends.

The gentleman is a suspect in the case. We are still searching for him. Even his family does not know where he is.

Helen Fisher

The double-income family was the standard. We are really moving back to the past.

This is our fifth year, and we have had really good turnouts. It's a family-oriented event. It's such a wide selection of people.

This is a great family event. It's fun for the kids and educational for adults.

Adrienne Clarkson

This has made me feel even a greater part of your family.

Jeff Nelson

This is a joke, ... I got four little girls. I'm a family man. I've been in the game too long to know not to jump on anybody.

Don Cooper

All I know is if my family isn't there, I'm not the same guy. And I don't have to throw a pitch.

Emo Philips

I love my family. I came home the other days. My brother's passed-out on the couch, holding an empty bottle of sleeping pills. So I called the paramedics, and they pumped his stomach, and I think he's learned his lesson: you know, never to take my last two sleeping pills.

The idea is to help one family for a year,

Napoleon Bonaparte

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.

Og Mandino

Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical as my daughter's observing, while our family was driving through an unfamiliar city, "Trying to read a map while driving causes all the traffic lights to turn green."

Orlando Aloysius Battista

Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

Novak Djokovic

I'm happy, my family's happy, everything is going well.