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"It's easy to halve the potato where there's love." »Irish Proverb
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"One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family." »Robert C. Byrd
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"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense." »John Irving
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"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
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"A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love." »Gray Davis
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"The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof." »Richard Bach
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"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof." »Richard Bach
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"High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad." »Barbara Kingsolver, "Life Without Go-Go Boots" (personal essay)
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"The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground." »Thomas Overbury
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"The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato?the only good belonging to him is underground." »Sir Thos Overbury
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"I am years gone from my family and miles away ... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns." »Jerrold Mundis
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"I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in his hand, pretending that he's throwing up, is not what I call hospitality." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Like the old motto of a famous Sunday paper, 'All human life was there' in the stately circle of the Mountbatten-Windsors, as the family coped in semipublic with those everlasting elements of human interest-sickness, scandal, family tension and divorce." »John Pearson
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"That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional." »Laurie E. Colwin
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"Worship the potato The idea seemed silly to me. But then I thought, what else is more deserving of worship It's simple, it comes from the earth, and it can kill you if you disobey it." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"If you're an archaeologist, I bet it's real embarrassing to put together a skull from a bunch of ancient bone fragments, but then it turns out it's not a skull but just an old dried-out potato." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure." »Charlotte Bronte
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"Don Corleone Do you spend time with your family Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man." »Godfather, The
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"When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul." »Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, The Crazy Ape
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"There is no such thing as fun for the whole family." »Jerry Seinfeld
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"There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."" »Jerry Seinfeld
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"Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know." »Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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"There's a lot of heredity in that family." »Ralph Kiner
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"The family is the country of the heart." »Giuseppe Mazzini
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"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." »Desmond Tutu
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"A married man with a family will do anything for money." »Charles De Talleyrand
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"Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got." »Rose Cherin
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"family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about." »Trey and Matt Stone Parker
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"A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants." »Alexander Pope
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"The family is the nucleus of civilization." »William James Durant
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