Family Quotes

"You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it."

"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."

"BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU."

"Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play."

"I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while."

"When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway."

"When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911."

"My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them."

"But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!"

"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"

"In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture."

"A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal."

"The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it."

"“I am well aware that I am the umblest person going,” said Uriah Heep, modestly; “let the other be where he may. My mother is likewise a very umble person. We live in a numble abode, Master Copperfield, but have much to be thankful for.”"

"Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family."

"And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father."

"Laughter brings out the child in all of us."

"Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt."

"I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider - very left-wing Democrats living in a heterogeneous working-class neighborhood. I picked up a lot of those values there, and I brought them with me when I showed up in Hollywood."

"My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly."