Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Quindlen

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Anna Quindlen

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.

Cindy Crawford

Nobody in my family ever thought that I'd a be a model.

Amy Schumer

He was really into family... He'd never come on the road with me on the weekends 'cause he wanted to spend time with his wife.

Amy Tan

My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.

Anthony Anderson

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

Ann Richards

Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.

Anais Nin

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

Anais Nin

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

Anne Hathaway

I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.

Anita Shreve

Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions ...

Stephen Hawking

My work and my family are very important to me.

Robert Kiyosaki

My family wasn't rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, 'Err on the side of caution.'

Mitt Romney

I have a big family, and I spend a lot of time with them.

Mitt Romney

For an incumbent like a president, who's been in the news every day, their family, they're well known.

Zeresenay Alemseged

My family, in a way, gives me a reference as to who I am as an individual, and my work gives me a reference as to who I am as a Homo sapiens. I think that's a very perfect match, in my view.

Zach Johnson

I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.

Vicki Lawrence

I was married for 10 minutes into a Southern family.

The problem is, the security mission goes on here and if we take some out, those that are left are at some risk ? it increases their risk, ... Unfortunately, we're not able at this time ? unless someone is known to have a family member wounded or injured or killed ? we're not in a position to make those adjustments.

We ain't got no family out here. All the football team that's our family.

Scott Caan

Sometimes I wish I didn't have somebody in my family who's in the business.

Tom Chappell

We are in the process of researching and getting our family foundation established. But it will not be funded in the next two years.

Benjamin Crump

We know it's going to be a long journey to get justice. The family is committed, and we are going to stay the course.

You learn good health and family are it, and nothing else matters.

You know, you're trying to please too many people. From the patient on the leg, to the family members, to the physician to the insurance carrier. And it's all got to be done tomorrow.

Richard Bach

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Richard Bach

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Robert Foster Bennett

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.

Robert Frost

Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college.

Robert Fulghum

One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage.

Robert Frost

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

Regina Brett

We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be.

LeBron James

I can't play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they think I should do. That doesn't make me happy. What makes me happy is being able to make plays for my teammates, to be able to represent the name on the back of my jersey.