Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope John Paul II

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

Pope John Paul II

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Pope Francis

[T]he "home" represents the most precious human treasures, that of encounter, that of relations among people, different in age, culture and history, but who live together and together help one another to grow. For this reason, the "home" is a crucial place in life, where life grows and can be fulfilled, because it is a place in which every person learns to receive love and to give love.

Pope Francis

It means caring for one another in our families: husbands and wives first protect one another, and then, as parents, they care for their children, and children themselves, in time, protect their parents.

Phil McGraw

Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means.. the bottom line.. then for me it's if the family is healthy and happy.

Pete Townshend

I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

Quentin Tarantino

The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.

Prince William

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.

Prince Charles

Personally, I have been very impressed by the slow food movement. It is about celebrating the culture of food, of sharing the extraordinary knowledge, developed over millennia, of the traditions involved with quality food production, of the sheer joy and pleasure of consuming food together. Especially within the context of family life, this has to be one of the highest forms of cultural activity.

Plutarch

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

Pope John XXIII

The whole world is my family.

Moss Hart

There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.

Mother Teresa

I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.

Mike Krzyzewski

I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.

Pearl S. Buck

The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

Peace Pilgrim

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Terri Clark

When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.

Tennessee Williams

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Lewis Mumford

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Leslie Banks

That has always been it for me: family first.

Marco Rubio

We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.

Thomas A. Edison

IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE

A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.

Sidney Crosby

Teach your parents well.

Shia LaBeouf

I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.

Josh McDowell

We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.

Kate Smith

I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.

Penelope Cruz

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

Penelope Cruz

It's great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family - my brother, my sister and myself. We have a great relationship.

Phyllis Diller

In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.

Pippa Middleton

It sounds funny to say, but we saw [Kate's wedding to Prince William] as just a family wedding. And actually, I didn't realize - perhaps - the scale of it until afterwards. We all took on the roles as any family would.

Kofi Annan

We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

Kofi Annan

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.