Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gretchen Rubin

Be a storehouse of happy memories.

Herbert V. Prochnow

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.

Henry David Thoreau

The state does not demand justice of its members, but thinks that it succeeds very well with the least degree of it, hardly more than rogues practice; and so do the neighborhood and the family. What is commonly called Friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues.

Henry David Thoreau

We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.

Henry David Thoreau

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

H. L. Mencken

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Jessica Lange

Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.

Jessica Lange

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

Jessica Lange

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

Jerry Falwell

When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.

Jean Shepherd

The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They had inbred and ingrown and finally emerged from the Kentucky hills like some remnant of Attila the Hung's barbarian horde. Flick said that they had webbed feet and only three toes. It might have been true.

Goldie Hawn

Family has always been the most important thing in my life. The only real goal that I ever had was to be a good mother.

Golda Meir

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

Gerald Durrell

A house is not a home until it has a dog.

Harriet Lerner

The first world we find ourselves in is a family that is not of our choosing.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

a true gentleman ... was characterized as the man that asks the fewest questions. This trait of refined society might be adopted into home-like in a far greater degree than it is, and make it far more agreeable.

Hortense Calisher

In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.

Hosea Ballou

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Horace

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

Gore Vidal

The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.

James Brown

Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.

James Boswell

I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.

Jacques Delille

Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

James G. Frazer

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Student: Sir, you said you must change the world. How can you change it, sir? Krishnamurti: What is the world? The world is where you live - your family, your friends, your neighbours. And your family, your friends, your neighbours can be extended and that is the world. Now, you are the centre of that world. That is the world you live in. Now how will you change the world? By changing yourself.

Jenny Eclair

Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Fred Rogers

Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.

George H. W. Bush

A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism.

Harmon Killebrew

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

Gus Van Sant

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

Jim Bunning

A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed.