
„The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.“
— C.G. Jung Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology 1875 - 1961
A collection of quotes on the topic of friendship, love, partnership, unfaithfulness.
„The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.“
— C.G. Jung Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology 1875 - 1961
„We are not a family, we are a firm.“
— Jorge VI King of the United Kingdom 1895 - 1952
On the Royal family, quoted by A. B. Baxter in Destiny Called to Them (Oxford University Press, 1939)
Attributed
„This family has no outsiders. Everyone is an insider.“
— Desmond Tutu South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner 1931
"And God Smiles," sermon preached at All Saints Church, Pasadena, California (6 November 2005)
Context: This family has no outsiders. Everyone is an insider. When Jesus said, "I, if I am lifted up, will draw..." Did he say, "I will draw some"? "I will draw some, and tough luck for the others"? He said, "I, if I be lifted up, will draw all." All! All! All! – Black, white, yellow; rich, poor; clever, not so clever; beautiful, not so beautiful. All! All! It is radical. All! Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Bush – all! All! All are to be held in this incredible embrace. Gay, lesbian, so-called "straight;" all! All! All are to be held in the incredible embrace of the love that won’t let us go.
„The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.“
— Louis Zamperini Italian-American middle distance runner 1917 - 2014
Source: Devil at My Heels
„It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.“
— Stephen King, book The Green Mile
Source: The Green Mile
„Happiness is having a loving, close knit family in another city.“
— George Burns American comedian, actor, and writer 1896 - 1996
As quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 251
„After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.“
— Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
Source: A Woman of No Importance
„The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.“
— Paulo Coelho, book The Alchemist
Introduction, p. xi.
Source: The Alchemist (1988)
Context: I ask myself: are defeats necessary?
Well, necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for a dream, we have no experience and make mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
„You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.“
— Desmond Tutu South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner 1931
Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town (7 September 1986)
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— Marek Żukow-Karczewski Polish historian, journalist and opinion journalist 1961
Tenczyn - a "Bastille"-type castle of the Tenczyński family, "Aura" 2, 1990-02, p. 19-21. http://yadda.icm.edu.pl/yadda/element/bwmeta1.element.agro-7ab5a4ef-bee9-490b-8838-4917699dfedc?q=d88195b-abee-4385-bd61-43f313e62483$6&qt=IN_PAGE
— Jordan Peterson Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology 1962
Other
— Richard Bach American spiritual writer 1936
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
— Dilma Rousseff 36th President of Brazil 1947
First speech http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/01/dilma-rousseff-wins-brazil-president after being elected President, October 31.
2010
— Claude Monet French impressionist painter 1840 - 1926
in a letter to Frédéric Bazille: as cited by K.E. Sullivan. Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 22
1850 - 1870
— Kobe Bryant American basketball player 1978 - 2020
A speech after Bryant's last game, 13 April 2016, posted on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg0mxPXIpLY&t=5s.
— Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society
Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society
— Arthur Rimbaud French Decadent and Symbolist poet 1854 - 1891
Source: A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
— Tina Turner singer, dancer, actress, and author 1939
Tina Turner is a soul survivor http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/141823/Tina-Turner-is-a-soul-survivor, Daily Express, 22th of November 2009
— Grigori Rasputin Russian mystic 1869 - 1916
Grigory Rasputin in a letter to the Tsarina Alexandra, 7 Dec 1916
— Nathuram Godse Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi 1910 - 1949
Nathuram Godse: Why I Assassinated Gandhi (1993)
2007
— Alexis Karpouzos 1967
Source: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/14108295.alexis_karpouzos?page=2
— Leonardo DiCaprio American actor and film producer 1974
http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm
— Scott Cawthon American independent video game designer 1971
— Hermann Göring German politician and military leader 1893 - 1946
To Leon Goldensohn (28 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)
— Milkha Singh Indian track and field athlete 1935
The Race of My Life: An Autobiography Milkha Singh (2013)
— Helena Bonham Carter British actress 1966
Guardian interview 3 Nov 2006 http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2006/nov/03/1
— Muhammad al-Baqir fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams 677 - 733
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 295
— Taras Shevchenko, Testamento
Taras Shevchenko Zapovit, 1845 (Shevchenko's "Testament"), Translated by John Weir, Toronto, 1961; Online at
— Unknown author
— Isaac Bashevis Singer Polish-born Jewish-American author 1902 - 1991
Nobel lecture as quoted in The Observer (17 December 1978) Variant: "They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff."
— Flannery O’Connor American novelist, short story writer 1925 - 1964
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
— Dilgo Khyentse Bhutanese Buddhist Lama 1910 - 1991
Source: The Hundred Verses of Advice: Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on What Matters Most
— Stephen King, Storm of the Century
Storm of the Century (1999)
Source: Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay
— Susanna Kaysen, book Girl, Interrupted
Source: Girl, Interrupted (1994)
„The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.“
— Mario Puzo American Novelist 1920 - 1999
— Rich Mullins American christian musician 1955 - 1997
Lufkin, Texas http://www.kidbrothers.net/words/concert-transcripts/lufkin-texas-jul1997-full.html (July 19, 1997)
In Concert
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe, book Democracy: The God That Failed
Source: Democracy: The God That Failed (2001), P.217
— Sita Ram Goel Indian activist 1921 - 2003
St. Francis Xavier: The man and his mission. 1985.
— Ransom Riggs, book Miss Peregrine's Home of Peculiar Children
Source: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011), Chapter 3, Page 79
„To found a family. I think it would have been easier for me to found an empire.“
— Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
— Roger Scruton English philosopher 1944 - 2020
"Conservatism and the Conservatory," https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/427945/conservatism-and-conservatory, National Review (December 2015).
— Brandon Flowers American indie rock singer 1981
When asked what surprised him about being a husband and a father?
" Brandon Flowers On His Sons http://www.ibabycouture.com/blog/?p=3729", BabyCouture (accessed December 20, 2010)
— Charan Singh prime minister of India 1902 - 1987
His resentment of being born a Jat which expressed in a speech in 1977 p. 204
Profiles of Indian Prime Ministers
— Lyndon B. Johnson American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969) 1908 - 1973
1960s, The American Promise (1965)
Context: This was the first nation in the history of the world to be founded with a purpose. The great phrases of that purpose still sound in every American heart, North and South: "All men are created equal" — "government by consent of the governed" — "give me liberty or give me death." Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories. In their name Americans have fought and died for two centuries, and tonight around the world they stand there as guardians of our liberty, risking their lives. Those words are a promise to every citizen that he shall share in the dignity of man. This dignity cannot be found in a man's possessions; it cannot be found in his power, or in his position. It really rests on his right to be treated as a man equal in opportunity to all others. It says that he shall share in freedom, he shall choose his leaders, educate his children, and provide for his family according to his ability and his merits as a human being.
— Mikhail Bakunin Russian revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collectivist anarchism 1814 - 1876
Program and Object of the Secret Revolutionary Organisation of the International Brotherhood (1868)
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe, book Democracy: The God That Failed
Source: Democracy: The God That Failed (2001), P.207-08
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe Austrian school economist and libertarian anarcho-capitalist philosopher 1949
Natural Elites, Intellectuals, and the State http://www.mises.org/etexts/intellectuals.asp (21 July 2006)
— Terence V. Powderly American mayor 1849 - 1924
"The Army of the Discontented," http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=nora;cc=nora;g=moagrp;xc=1;q1=The%20Army%20of%20the%20Discontented;rgn=full%20text;cite1=Powderly;cite1restrict=author;view=image;seq=0381;idno=nora0140-4;node=nora0140-4%3A8 North American Review, vol. 140, whole no. 341 (April 1885), p. 371.
"The Paradox of Our Age"; these statements were used in World Wide Web hoaxes which attributed them to various authors including George Carlin, a teen who had witnessed the Columbine High School massacre, the Dalai Lama and Anonymous; they are quoted in "The Paradox of Our Time" at Snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/paradox.asp
Words Aptly Spoken (1995)
— Olavo de Carvalho Brazilian journalist, essayist and professor of philosophy 1947
Diário do Comércio - Causas Sagradas http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/semana/120117dc.html (17 January 2012)
— Moshe Dayan Israeli military leader and politician 1915 - 1981
As quoted in Warrior : The Autobiography of Ariel Sharon (1989)
— Nicolas Sarkozy 23rd President of the French Republic 1955
October 18, 2008, Sarkozy becomes the first French President to address the National Assembly of Quebec.
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=079abc91-ed93-41c2-bce4-0579af73ea32&p=1
— Lee Kuan Yew First Prime Minister of Singapore 1923 - 2015
Lee Kuan Yew, Interview with Nathan Gardels of Global Viewpoint, Sept 26 1995 http://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/data/pdfdoc/017-1995-09-26.pdf
1990s
— Edward Snowden American whistleblower and former National Security Agency contractor 1983
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/edward-snowden-after-months-of-nsa-revelations-says-his-missions-accomplished/2013/12/23/49fc36de-6c1c-11e3-a523-fe73f0ff6b8d_story.html 2013 Christmas Message
— Linda Smith comedian 1958 - 2006
I suppose we could have swapped them for books, but we had our eye on a twin-tub.
Stand-up
— David Attenborough British broadcaster and naturalist 1926
How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth? (BBC Horizon, 2009)
— Henry VIII of England King of England from 1509 until 1547 1491 - 1547
Last speech to parliament, December 24, 1545.
English Church History from the Death of King Henry VII to the Death of Archbishop Parker, Rev. Alfred Plummer, 1905, Edinburg, T. & T. Clark, p. 85. http://books.google.com/books?id=ofMOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA85&dq=%22+you+be+permitted+to+read+holy+scriptures%22
— Manuel L. Quezon president of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944 1878 - 1944
As quoted in Ambeth R. Ocampo's Chulalongkorn's Elephants: The Philippines in Asian History, Looking Back 4 (2011)
„When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.“
— Emo Philips American comedian 1956
E=MO² (1985)
„Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.“
— Robert Burton, book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 3, Member 2, Remedies against discontents.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
— Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge Wife of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge 1982
First post-engagement interview (2010)
— Adolf A. Berle American diplomat 1895 - 1971
1967, p. xxiii
The Modern Corporation and Private Property. 1932/1967
— James Brown American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist 1933 - 2006
Brown, J. & Tucker, B.B. (1986). James Brown: The Godfather of Soul. Macmillan: New York. ISBN 0-02517-430-4
— Dick Cheney American politician and businessman 1941
Cheney, on not pushing on to Baghdad during the first Gulf War; C-SPAN 4-15-94 Interview on CNN http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0708/13/sitroom.03.html
1990s
— Rich Mullins American christian musician 1955 - 1997
Anderson, Indiana http://www.kidbrothers.net/words/concert-transcripts/anderson-indiana-nov1695.html (November 16, 1995)
In Concert
— Elliot Rodger American spree killer 1991 - 2014
My Twisted World (2014), 19-22, UC Santa Barbara, Perspective on incelness
— Shirin Ebadi Iranian lawyer, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 1947
From 2006 interview with Ebadi by New America Media editor Brian Shott (translator, Banafsheh Keynoush) about her newly released book, Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope.
New America Media, 2006. http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=8ad8e36442c10ef7fc33f0c8e70c08d8 (retrieved Oct. 15, 2008)
— Friedrich Hayek Austrian and British economist and Nobel Prize for Economics laureate 1899 - 1992
1980s and later, Knowledge, Evolution and Society (1983), "Coping with Ignorance", "Our Moral Heritage"
— Jack Osbourne Son of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne 1985
MTV.com Jack Talks About His Addiction and Recovery
— Sachin Tendulkar A former Indian cricketer from India and one of the greatest cricketers ever seen in the world 1973
— Marilyn Manson American rock musician and actor 1969
As quoted in MarilynManson.com (6 February 1999).
1990s
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair Atheist activist 1919 - 1995
"Playboy Interview: Madalyn Murray", Playboy (October 1965)
— Mikhail Bakunin Russian revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collectivist anarchism 1814 - 1876
Letter http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/bakunin/letters/toherzenandogareff.html to Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen and Ogareff from San Francisco (3 October 1861); published in Correspondance de Michel Bakounine (1896) edited by Michel Dragmanov
— Jack Handey American comedian 1949
Fuzzy Memories (1996), Andrews McMeel Publishing, ISBN 0-8362-1040-9