All Quotes

Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
‐‐ Peter Ackroyd

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
‐‐ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
‐‐ Carl Clinton Van Doren

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
‐‐ Alfred North Whitehead

Familiarity breeds contempt.
‐‐ Aesop

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
‐‐ Ouida

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
‐‐ Roy Hattersley

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.
‐‐ Susie Bright

Families always have these unspoken dramas, and at holidays, everyone is supposed to sit down and pretend that none of that is going on.
‐‐ Richard LaGravenese

Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.
‐‐ Tamsin Greig

Families and businesses are tightening their belts to make ends meet - and Washington should too.
‐‐ Evan Bayh

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
‐‐ Matt Groening

Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do - Freudian as that is.
‐‐ Susan Minot

Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
‐‐ Tamsin Greig

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.
‐‐ Brenda Ueland

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
‐‐ Ann Oakley

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.
‐‐ Diane Abbott

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
‐‐ Brad Henry

Families are the deepest, most screwed up relationships that we have.
‐‐ Antony Starr

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
‐‐ Cotton Mather

Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.
‐‐ Bill Owens

Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.
‐‐ Amy Sherman-Palladino

Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.
‐‐ Achille Maramotti

Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life.
‐‐ Amy Klobuchar

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

Families have become models for public life, constructing friendships between individuals of different temperaments, ambitions and ages, even if they are often unsuccessful. People now want, above all, appreciation of their uniqueness.
‐‐ Theodore Zeldin

Families homeschool for different reasons, in unique situations, using a variety of methods.
‐‐ Lisa Whelchel

Families in Illinois don't want lies and political mudslinging.
‐‐ Ann Callis

Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Families interest me - I'm part of one; most of us come from one. And I'm curious about the choices made in life, how they affect things, and how those choices happen.
‐‐ Anne Meara

Families need a spiritual bond with one another and with God. God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.
‐‐ Dennis Quaid

Families need to have a time when they can cook together. They can eat at the table and you can look eye-to-eye. Phones are put away and there are no interruptions. And what you do is concentrate on each other. Listen to what they have to say, and let them listen to you.
‐‐ Kay Robertson

Families out there know that if they get in trouble and they've spent up a bunch of money and they've borrowed and they are up to hock to their necks, the thing they've got to do is start paying off what they owe and cut back their spending.
‐‐ Mike Huckabee

Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.
‐‐ Adam Garcia

Families rely on financial services more than ever, but those who need them most - who struggle to make ends meet - too often must contend with sky-high interest rates and tricks and traps buried in the fine print of their loan products.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece of any healthcare system.
‐‐ Tony Tan

Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
‐‐ Jessica Lange

Families survive the Terrible Twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons. A 2-year-old with the physical capacities of an adult would be terrifying.
‐‐ Paul Bloom

Families used to come from somewhere, and that's where they stayed.
‐‐ Alan Gerry

Families will now have to prove to the IRS that they have Washington-approved and government-mandated insurance.
‐‐ John Barrasso

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
‐‐ E. W. Howe

Families with disabled children are praying for their kids to die before them because they have no support systems. They are very scared about who will take care of their kids and how their kids will have a dignified life after they die.
‐‐ Safak Pavey

Family always gonna be there.
‐‐ Lil' Romeo

Family always gonna be there. The material things, they come and go.
‐‐ Romeo Miller

Family - and certainly kids and a stable relationship - is something bigger than yourself. They need you to sit down with them, be there for them when they wake up in the middle of the night.
‐‐ Brad Pitt

Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
‐‐ Barbara Bush

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell

Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
‐‐ Fabrice Muamba

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.
‐‐ Marian Wright Edelman