Family Quotes

"For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother."

"I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own."

"The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."

"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher."

"I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'"

"Success is the child of audacity."

"If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it."

"My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds."

"I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society."

"I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father."

"No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life."

"Touch a scientist and you touch a child."

"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal."

"Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness."

"My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism."

"Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!"

"Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth."

"My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults."

"I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other."

"If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons."