The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.

The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.

As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.

It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.

Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

But this is called show business, not show family.

We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.

You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.