A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A family man appreciates the family he has. He treats them well. With his hands, he helps them find help.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A family man may not always bask in the spotlight of popularity, but he is extraordinary—an outstanding visionary. He rides on the wings of God's glory.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A family man never makes a good family doctor; he has too many worries of his own.”
Source: The Little Stranger
“A family member is initially loved out of expectation … and is eventually loved out of habit.”
“A family member with no insurance is a future liability in case of an accident or when they suffer a critical illness.”
“A family moved to Dixie County with a dream. Then spent all they had to open a retro bar off US19. James Dean and Marilyn Monroe. A T-Bird on the roof. On opening night a guy got rowdy. Was asked to leave. But he returned the next morning. With a can of gas. And they watched their dream burn.”
Source: Too Weird To Share: A Rural Gloom Sampler
“A family needs a father to anchor it.”
“A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.”
“A family of grapefruits will always be surrounded by bitterness.”
“A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.”
Source: Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion
“A family of three had become, in Michael Arroyo's young mind, an army of two.”
Source: Heat
“A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.”
Source: The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays
“A family portrait is only complete with love to fill it's frame.”
“A family raised well by a Mother is one of the great wonders of the world.”
“A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.”
“A family reunion is like an unlicensed surgery. Everyone has a scalpel, and anyone could be operated on.”
Source: A Nuclear Family
“A family scapegoat is burdened with criticism, toxic shame, and blame for something they have not done. The wrongdoings of others are projected onto them. You were a convenient receptacle for your insecure family members who were incapable or unwilling to take responsibility for their own actions, words, and behaviors.”
Source: Soul Rescue: How to Break Free From Narcissistic Abuse & Heal Trauma
“A family ship will never sink until it is abandoned by its crew.”
“A family stitched together with love seldom unravels.”
“A family that dines together shines together.”
“A Family That Eats Together, Grows Together.”
“A family that knows how to play together has the tools to stay together.”
“A family that prays together stays together. As we are united at this moment, let us join also the prayer of all and everyone. What you can do I cannot do. And what I can do you cannot do. But all of us together are doing something beautiful for God.”
“A family tie is like the river. It can bend, but it cannot break.”
Source: The Door of No Return
“A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.”
Source: Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist
“A family was much more than a group of people united by blood. More than anything, it was the thin thread that kept the present linked to the past. Memories and memory itself kept both worlds together.”
Source: Children of the Stars
“A family which stays together for selfish reasons and not out of love does not stay together for long. When the family is humoured for convenience and necessity, its utility gets over soon. In such cases, children don’t need their parents when they grow up. A wife does not need her husband if she earns her livelihood. A husband may be attracted to a younger and more beautiful woman to fill his life. Parents do not want to waste time and money in bringing up their children who may leave them on growing up and won’t be available in time of need. An investment in a bank would perhaps be more reliable for old age than investment on children.”
Source: Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth
“A family who laughs together blesses each other.”
Source: Farm Fiasco
“A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.”
“A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.”
“A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.”
Source: On photography
“A family's responses to crisis or to a new situation mirror those of a child. That is to say, the way a small child deals with a new challenge (for instance, learning to walk) has certain predictable stages: regression, anxiety, mastery, new energy, growth, and feedback for future achievement. These stages can also be seen in adults coping with new life events, whether positive or negative.”
“A family, like a canoe, must be steered or paddled, or it won't take you where you want to go.”
“A family-friendly "eco-populism" can mobilize and unite millions who, at this point, would be turned off by a more extreme set of demands. The momentum will build, through these early efforts, for more comprehensive solutions.”
“A famine has set in; a famine of hearing the truth...”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Exposed
“A famosa ideia de que o ateu, como Paulo, um dia vai se converter. Por que Jesus tocaria seu coração? Poderia ser Zeus? Talvez o chupacabra toque meu coração um dia, ou talvez os mais de 5.000 deuses criados pela humanidade.”
Source: A Revolução Ateísta, a Última Minoria Silenciada: A luta por liberdade de pensamento em um mundo pós-religioso (vol. I: introdução) (Mente Ateísta Livro 1)
“A famous actor, Edmund Kean, on his deathbed, was reported to have said, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."”
Source: Comedy Writing Secrets
“A famous anecdote concerning Cuvier involves the tale of his visitation from the devil—only it was not the devil but one of his students dressed up with horns on his head and shoes shaped like cloven hooves. This frightening apparition burst into Cuvier's bedroom when he was fast asleep and claimed:
'Wake up thou man of catastrophes. I am the Devil. I have come to devour you!'
Cuvier studied the apparition carefully and critically said,
'I doubt whether you can. You have horns and hooves. You eat only plants.”
“A famous aphorism tells us, „The Sufi is the child of the moment“ (as-sufi ibn al-waqt). One of its meanings is that the true Sufi lives in the constant awareness that his self is nothing but what he is at the present moment. And since each present moment is unique, each moment of the self is unique. In some Sufi texts, each moment is called a nafas, a „breath.“ The Sufis are then called „the folk of the breaths“ (ahl al-anfas), because they live in full awareness of the uniqueness of the nafs at each nafas, each breath, each instant. (p. 55-56)”
Source: Sufism: A Beginner's Guide
“A famous author is a promoter who never quit.”
“A famous author once said that you can't go home again. But when you find that you are lost the only place to go is home. Remember the way, the stars will guide you. Your heart is her memory & the soul is your compass.
And one-day you will find her again.”
“A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one. There is great wisdom in this... but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs. Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat.... Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.”
“A famous book title once claimed women were from Venus. I don’t know where they’re from, I’m just glad they’re here or I wouldn’t be. While female kindness has saved me more than once, I’ve got to say that no one has helped or hurt me more than women.”
“A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.”
Source: Poems
“A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.”
“A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.”
“A famous Russian Field Marshal and opponent of Napoleon, Count Alexander V. Suvorov (1729–1800), once said, ‘Train hard and fight easy.’ It has become a famous Army quotation, often repeated. He got it spot on, especially where the SAS is concerned.”
Source: Geordie: SAS Fighting Hero
“A famous Russian proverb: Don't blame the mirror if your face is awry. (smile)”
Source: A DAY IN THE NEXT: A Journey From Brooklyn to Buddhism
“A famous violinist once said. Music transcends words. By exchanging notes, you get to know one another, to understand one another. As if your souls were connected and your hearts were overlapping. It's a conversation through instruments. A miracle that creates harmony. In that moment, music transcends words.”
“A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.”