Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Groening

'Adult Swim' on the Cartoon Network is unbelievable. And 'South Park' continues to do great stuff. And 'Family Guy' and the various other Seth MacFarlane projects are amazing.

Paul Goodman

The family is the American fascism.

Patrick Henry

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

Pam Brown

For the sake of the sons - and even for the son's future wives - a woman must keep a part of her mind and heart entirely for herself. Every family is better off with a wife and mother who can astonish and occasionally dewilder.

Kristin Hannah

As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.

Moliere

You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?

Nancy Mitford

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

Mark Twain

My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.

Mary Schmich

Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good.

Mary Schmich

Be nice to your siblings. They are your link to the past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.

Marsha Norman

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

Mario Puzo

Every family has bad memories.

Mario Puzo

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

Marvin Gaye

Love your mother, she bore you. Love your father, he works for you.

Marian Wright Edelman

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

Marian Wright Edelman

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

Mark Webber

I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.

Mitt Romney

The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.

Mitt Romney

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.

R. D. Laing

Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.

Princess Diana

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

Oscar Wilde

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Paul Gallico

When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally..

Paris Hilton

When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.

Paloma Faith

I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

A family stitched together with love seldom unravels.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.

P. J. O'Rourke

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

P. J. O'Rourke

Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.