Latest Quotations

Recently Added:

  • Elena Anaya on family

    Author:

    “I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it’s my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.” -Elena Anaya

    View listing…

  • Mos Def on family

    Author:

    “I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn’t be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.” -Mos Def

    View listing…

  • David Bowie on family

    Author:

    “There’s a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I’m affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn’t want to leave. He likes it very much.” -David Bowie

    View listing…

  • Lyndon B. Johnson on family

    Author:

    “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

    View listing…

  • Marcelene Cox on family

    Author:

    “Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there’s always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.” -Marcelene Cox

    View listing…

  • Steven Spielberg on family

    Author:

    “It all starts with the script: it’s not worth taking myself away from my family if I don’t have something I’m really passionate about.” -Steven Spielberg

    View listing…

  • Tom Vilsack on family

    Author:

    “In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.” -Tom Vilsack

    View listing…

  • Paris Hilton on family

    Author:

    “I’ve made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.” -Paris Hilton

    View listing…

  • Jennifer Aniston on family

    Author:

    “I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting – walled-in – I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind of have, protective armour. It’s not for my friends or family, but for being.outside in the world, always on guard.” -Jennifer Aniston

    View listing…

  • Ulysses S. Grant on family

    Author:

    “Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.” -Ulysses S. Grant

    View listing…

  • Jeff Cooper on family

    Author:

    “The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.” -Jeff Cooper

    View listing…

  • Kerry Washington on family

    Author:

    “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

    View listing…

  • Anne Lamott on family

    Author:

    “When we’re dealing with the people in our family – no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs – we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.” -Anne Lamott

    View listing…

  • Jim Valvano on family

    Author:

    “People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who’s right here too.” -Jim Valvano

    View listing…

  • Chris Brown on family

    Author:

    “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

    View listing…

  • Kim Kardashian on family

    Author:

    “I know some people say it’s not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it’s always worked so well for me.” -Kim Kardashian

    View listing…

  • Reinhold Niebuhr on family

    Author:

    “Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.” -Reinhold Niebuhr

    View listing…

  • Joseph Joubert on family

    Author:

    “Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.” -Joseph Joubert

    View listing…

  • Desmond Tutu on family

    Author:

    “In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.” -Desmond Tutu

    View listing…

  • Dolly Parton on family

    Author:

    “I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.” -Dolly Parton

    View listing…

  • Li Na on family

    Author:

    “I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.” -Li Na

    View listing…

  • Max Muller on family

    Author:

    “The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.” -Max Muller

    View listing…

  • Amy Grant on family

    Author:

    “Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you’re burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.” -Amy Grant

    View listing…

  • Michael Bloomberg on family

    Author:

    “And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government.” -Michael Bloomberg

    View listing…

  • Joseph Smith, Jr. on family

    Author:

    “A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.” -Joseph Smith, Jr.

    View listing…