Famous Quotes
- Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.
- Jason Reitman on Family
- Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.
- Curt Schilling on Family
- Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.
- Chris Brown on Family
- Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead on Family
- Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
- Gracie Allen on Family
- So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers on Family
- So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
- Haniel Long on Family
- So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.
- Henry Louis Gates on Family
- Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.
- Bob Ehrlich on Family
- Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.
- Russell Crowe on Family
- Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.
- Adam Sandler on Family
- Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.
- James Brown on Family
- Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.
- Muhammad Yunus on Family
- South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.
- Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family.
- Bo Bennett on Family
- Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.
- Jeffrey Kluger on Family
- Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.
- Nicole Kidman on Family
- Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.
- Jennifer Granholm on Family
- Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.
- Heidi Klum on Family
- Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.
- Richard Pryor on Family
- Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.
- William Hague on Family
- Tennis just a game, family is forever.
- Serena Williams on Family
- Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!
- Oscar Pistorius on Family
- That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.
- Peter Singer on Family
- The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
- Mitt Romney on Family
- The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.
- Mike Pence on Family
- The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
- Christopher Lasch on Family
- The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?
- Terry Pratchett on Family
- The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.
- The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
- Heinrich Heine on Family
- The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.
- B. B. King on Family
- The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
- Richard Bach on Family
- The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.
- Henry Louis Gates on Family
- The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.
- Kerry Washington on Family
- The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
- Jackie Kennedy on Family
- The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
- Lyndon B. Johnson on Family
- The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.
- Charles Eastman on Family
- The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.
- Howard Gardner on Family
- The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
- A. N. Wilson on Family
- The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.
- The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.
- Dee Dee Myers on Family
- The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
- Al Sharpton on Family
- The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.
- Danny Boyle on Family
- The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.
- Martin Scorsese on Family
- The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
- George Santayana on Family
- The family is the first essential cell of human society.
- Pope John XXIII on Family
- The family is the nucleus of civilization.
- Will Durant on Family
- The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
- Felix Adler on Family
- The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Family
- The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
- Havelock Ellis on Family
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