| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Television is chewing gum for the eyes." »Unknown |
| "TV is chewing gum for the eyes." »Frank Lloyd Wright |
| "You've got to take the bitter with the sour." »Samuel Goldwyn |
| "I am sure the grapes are sour." »Aesop |
| "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 |
| "Every sweet has its sour every evil its good." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted." »Chinese Proverb |
| "There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame." »William Langland |
| "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 |
| "There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside." »Pearl Bailey |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes." »Zelda |
| "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 |
| "What is it about possessing things Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do We've all been there-- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain." »Jeff Melvoin |
| "Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese garlic makes it good." »Alice May Brock |
| "Boys are found everywhere-on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket." »Alan Marshall Beck |
| "Merrill One time, I was at this party... and I was sitting on the couch with Amanda McKinney. She was just sitting there, looking beautiful. So, I lean in to kiss her, and I realize I have gum in my mouth. So, I turn to spit it out and put it in a paper cup. I turn back, and Amanda McKinney throws up all over herself. I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered." »Signs |
| "In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)" »George Will |
| "There's a lot of heredity in that family." »Ralph Kiner |
| "Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got." »Rose Cherin |
| "There is no such thing as fun for the whole family." »Jerry Seinfeld |
| "family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about." »Trey and Matt Stone Parker |
| "The family is the country of the heart." »Giuseppe Mazzini |
| "You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." »Desmond Tutu |
| "A family, although not a necessity, is the ultimate luxury." »Eric Pio |
| "The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent." »Yvonne De Gaulle |
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