Family Quotes
“I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.”
-- Iain Duncan Smith
“When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.”
-- George Saunders
“Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.”
-- Imelda Marcos
“My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.”
-- Vivien Leigh
“We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.”
-- Sara Blakely
“I text a lot people, because it's how I stay connected with all my family and friends when I'm on set and traveling.”
-- Ashley Tisdale
“In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.”
-- Adele
“To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.”
-- Pope John Paul II
“I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.”
-- Vivienne Westwood
“It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.”
-- Jeffrey Kluger
“Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.”
-- Mark Cuban
“I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.”
-- Sting
“In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.”
-- Mehmet Oz