Family Quotes - Page 57

Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.

A monogamous marriage and family is what some women want - but not all of us. We are mostly doing serial monogamy anyway.

I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That's really what I crave, and I always have done.

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

I get to go to work and FaceTime my friends and family and go, "Hey, I'm just showing you around my spaceship!" It's great to be able to do that. I'm having a ball!

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

Family is what grounds you.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

I've always just had troubles with my family because I'm psychotic. It had nothing to do with that.

You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage-Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to. But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof, and bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.

I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.

The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.

My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.

I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.

Most seasonings are based on family tradition.

Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.

One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.

My family is and will always stay the most important to me.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.