Poignant Family Quotes & Sayings

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Collaborate with people you can learn from — Pharrell Williams

If you want things to change, You have to change. If you want things to be better, You have to be better. — Jim Rohn

The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history. — Sol Luckman

Write the wrong
Wrong the right
Spite the good fight
With no respite
And set the
Literary world
Alight — Robert Black

Dedicated to all those who say: "I don't have time for analytics" or "I don't understand analytics". — Aldous Huxley

Stargazing is the story of a happy family plunged into an unexpected drama: it's poignant, warm, and unpredictable. I enjoyed it hugely.' -- Julie Cohen — Julie Cohen

I really try to forget. I only look at my old works if there's an interview and someone asks me about it. Otherwise, it's not even in the rearview mirror. — Chang-rae Lee

Two people can illustrate crudity to you.
The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone.
The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one. — Idries Shah

Amazing how what you didn't have kept coming to mind. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love. — A.O. Scott

Sweet were the days when I was all unknown, But when my name was lifted up, the storm Brake on the mountain and I cared not for it. Right well know I that fame is half disfame. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Restricting access to such a basic health care service, which 99% of sexually experienced American women have used and 62% of American women are using right now, is out of touch with public sentiment. — Sandra Fluke

It's a shame that so many churches are married to a designed-by-Christians-for-Christians-only culture. A culture in which they talk about the Great Commission, sing about the Great Commission, but refuse to reorganize their churches around the Great Commission. — Andy Stanley

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife. — Bruce Feirstein

I suspect people who are indecisive are people who are far too enamored of analysis in all settings and are destroying their ability to make an instinctive judgment through over-analysis
and that's dangerous. — Malcolm Gladwell

Smell brings to mind ... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. — Diane Ackerman