Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Frost

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Robert Frost

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Robert Benchley

The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life whichdoes not include at least two hypochondriacs, one sadist, and one old man who spills food down the front of his vest.

Rita Mae Brown

Writers will happen in the best of families.

Thomas Paine

As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight.

Thomas S. Monson

Family prayer is the greatest deterrent to sin, and hence the most beneficent provider of joy and happiness. The old saying is yet true: 'The family that prays together stays together.'

Robert Kennedy

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

Richard M. Daley

I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

Sammy Hagar

The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.

Samuel Adams

[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to the well-being of a family.

Suzanne Vega

You have to defend your honor. And your family.

Ray Davies

How was I conceived? Was it love, was I meant, or was I just an accident?

Randy Travis

When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away.

Thomas Jefferson

The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

You have never by a word or a deed given me one moment's uneasiness; on the contrary I have felt perpetual gratitude to heaven forhaving given me, in you, a source of so much pure and unmixed happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.

Thomas Jefferson

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Tom Petty

My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV.

Rick Riordan

Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.

Richard Branson

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.

Rutherford B. Hayes

You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can prowl in old trunks of letters by the day with undiminished zest.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Stephen King

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'

Susan Sarandon

I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

Susan Collins

Loving isn't liking and it takes liking to live together.

Stevie Wonder

Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.

Tim McGraw

What are you doing son, you're gonna drive yourself insane. You'll never find the sunshine, when you're following the rain.

Tiki Barber

My family is everything to me.

Tiger Woods

As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.

Thomas Szasz

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Regina King

I stay in tune with my family and God.

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.

Toni Morrison

Two parents can't raise a child any more than one. You need a whole community - everybody - to raise a child. And the little nuclear family is a paradigm that just doesn't work. It doesn't work for white people or for black people. Why are we hanging onto it, I don't know. It isolates people into little units - people need a larger unit.