Family Court Quotes

#1. The failure of the family court system in America is a national scandal. Sadly, the mainstream media, whether out of ignorance or fear, refuses to cover it. That media silence means that every day, these American human rights abuses continue to occur.

Garland Waller

#2. [American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.

Alec Baldwin

#3. Criminal court is where bad people are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges in family court, where good people are at their worst.

Richard Dooling

#4. Few people are aware of the severe human rights violations committed daily by family court judges across the country. These courts are siding over and over again with proven sexual abusers of children and batterers of women. I wouldn't believe it myself if I hadn't done so much investigating.

Lundy Bancroft

#5. You've got criminal courts and child welfare officials refusing to do their jobs and protect children so they can shift the cases over to family court where predatory professionals can turn a dirty buck off the atrocities committed against children.

Anne Stevenson

#6. I love my people, and my family. Do not think I won't become a monster to keep them protected.

Sarah J. Maas

#7. There are two kinds of Fools. The real Fool is the most sincere of mortals: the Court Fool and his kind - the trifling, jesting buffoon - but simulate the family virtue, and steal the family name, for sordid purposes.

Albion W. Tourgee

#8. In the end, what matters most is that the people you work with share your values, so I've wanted people who value the meaningful work and meaningful relationships that always motivated me in building Bridgewater.

Ray Dalio

#9. A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.

Artie Lange

#10. Read a ton, write every day if you can, and don't mimic another writer's style. Find your own voice.

James Patterson

#11. But I mean, even my family gets spoiled at times watching me doing things that I do, on and off the court.

LeBron James

#12. You are not Melusina, rising from a fountain to easy happiness. You will not be a beautiful woman at court with nothing to do but make magic. The road you have chosen will mean that you have to spend your life scheming and fighting. Our task, as your family, is to make sure you win.

Philippa Gregory

#13. I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

Orson Scott Card

#14. If one could only feel always like this," Pat had said once to Judy. "All the little worries swallowed up ... all the petty spites and fears and disappointments forgotten ... just love and peace and beauty."
"Oh, oh, but what wud there be lift for heaven, girl dear?" asked Judy.

L.M. Montgomery

#15. Basketball Rule #1

In this game of life
your family is the court
and the ball is your heart.
No matter how good you are,
no matter how down you get,
always leave
your heart
on the court.

Kwame Alexander

#16. Growing up I wasn't the richest, but I had a rich family in spirit. Standing here with 19 championships is something I never thought would happen. I went on a court just with a ball and a racket and with a hope.

Serena Williams

#17. When it comes to dealing with the world's climate and energy challenges, I have a simple rule: change America, change the world.

Thomas Friedman

#18. Simon leveled the gun at Will again. 'Now,' he said casually, 'someone's gonna die here in the next minute.'
On the other side of the two-way mirror, Sammy took aim.
'That's exactly right,' she whispered.

Jenna Brooks

#19. The Foxhole Court was the only home he needed; he Foxes were his family.

Nora Sakavic

#20. If you can't sent money, send tobacco.

George Washington

#21. At the Foxhole Court "family" was a fantasy invented to make books and Hollywood movies more interesting.

Nora Sakavic

#22. Denying that you're in denial is being in denial and is utterly redundant.

S.L. Naeole

#23. I think that it's important for judges to understand that if a woman is out there trying to raise a family, trying to support her family, and is being treated unfairly, then the court has to stand up, if nobody else will. And that's the kind of judge that I want.

Barack Obama

#24. There was a woman in Elizabeth I's court that happened to have the same family name as me.

Natalie Dormer

#25. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.

Thomas Jefferson

#26. I would court you, with all the grace and courtesy that you deserve,

C.S. Pacat

#27. I need a stop-being-an-asshole implant chip to shock my ass every time I do shit like this.

Avelyn Paige

#28. My family didn't have very much money, so ballet wasn't even on my radar; I just found it randomly when I was 13 at a Boys & Girls Club. We were practicing in a basketball court in gym clothes with some old socks on. Even though it terrified me at first, I found that I really liked it.

Misty Copeland

#29. You know how the bonds of family are, my lady ... They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like vines, they cling tightly enough to kill.

Cassandra Clare

#30. There were times when the world did not need policemen, because what it really did need was for somebody who knew what they were doing to shut it all down and start it all up again so that this time it could be done properly.

Terry Pratchett

#31. My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no family. The court sent me to live with my uncle and aunt in Missouri.

Karolyn Grimes

#32. I am two different people. What you see on the court is just natural for me. I wear my heart on my sleeve. I have always said 'C'mon' purely to fire myself up. Off the court, I am a lot shyer. I stick to my team and my family and people I trust.

Lleyton Hewitt

#33. All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

Oscar Wilde

#34. Tennis has never been the most important thing in my life. My family, my health, my happiness ... they are more important to me. On court, I want to win. Off court, I want to be a better person. Tennis is a path to my future.

Maria Sharapova

#35. The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology.

Gary Wolf

#36. At Bow Street Magistrates' Court the essential facts were established. The man's name was James Tilly Matthews. He was a pauper of the south London parish of Camberwell. He had a wife and a young family. He appeared to be of unsound mind.

Mike Jay

#37. The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

Malcolm De Chazal

#38. I had a chance to go on the Supreme Court of the United States, and my whole family was more disappointed in my deciding not to do that than in my deciding not to run for president - much more.

Mario Cuomo

#39. The great joy and honour of my life has been to know you. To call you my family. And I am grateful - more than I can possibly say - that I was given this time with you all

Sarah J. Maas

#40. It's all interrelated, these destructive things I do. I latch on to people, like I'm collecting them. I'm always looking for a hero, you know?

Jenna Brooks