Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Butcher

There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.

Jim Butcher

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

Howard Stern

My mother was very involved with me. And we had a dialogue constantly. And it was like an umbilical cord. As long as the words were flowing back and forth we were connected and feeding each other. And I probably grew up very afraid of losing that connection.

Honore de Balzac

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

Honore de Balzac

A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.

Honore de Balzac

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

Honore de Balzac

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Michael King

He always said King World would take us to the top of the world, and it did. And that's what King World is: a real, true, American story. Literally, a true, American family story that stuck together, worked hard together, through a very, very winding road, to this.

For someone who grew up experiencing what he did, you can fully understand why Jonathan was angry. Being with the Raich family and around his supportive teammates have taught him that life can be fun.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Izaak Walton

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Elton John

My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

Francis Thompson

The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.

Horace Walpole

An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!

Homer

Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

Maisie Williams

If I started being braggy, my family would be like, 'Shut up, Maisie! Who cares? Get off the sofa.'

Gloria Steinem

The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.

Gloria Steinem

I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful controls. On the contrary, I believe that hierarchy and painful controls create destructive people. And I no longer believe the liberal message that children are blank slates on which society can write anything. On the contrary, I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

Harry S Truman

No one who has not had the responsibility can really understand what it is like to be President, not even his closest aides or members of his immediate family. There is no end to the chain of responsibility that binds him, and he is never allowed to forget that he is President.

J. K. Rowling

How're we getting to King's Cross tomorrow, Dad?" asked Fred as they dug into a sumptuous pudding. "The Ministry's providing a couple of cars," said Mr. Weasley. Everyone looked up at him. "Why?" said Percy curiously. "It's because of you, Perce," said George seriously. "And there'll be little flags on the hoods, with HB on them-" "-for Humongous Bighead," said Fred.

J. K. Rowling

One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.

H. L. Mencken

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Grace Kelly

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

Ja Rule

If pain is truly love, for my family I die.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

Jerry Brown

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

If everybody's family is OK, then we'll be OK.

Joe Gibbs

If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupation third, that's when I've found success.

Reese Hoffa

I burned down our house, and that put a strain on our family.

I'd had recommendations from friends and family to get into the programming area,

Ice harvesting was a huge thing in Waseca until the 1940s. The Johnson family harvested ice for 50 years until the late 1940s.

Linda Lewis

I couldn't even go to my family members because they're homeless, too.