Family Disappointment Sayings

#1. For a while, I thought the great disappointment of my life was that I don't have a family of my own. Then it dawned on me: That's not what I think; that's what married people think.

Lewis Black

#2. The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights.

Jesse Helms

#3. Sometimes we get a little bit of a facade. We think we have people. Family, friends ... but in the end, it's just you and the darkness. Everyone leaves eventually, my young friend. It's better, really, to learn early. This way, you can save yourself some disappointment.

Morgan Matson

#4. The Ice Nation is a pretty brutal place. They breed war heroes. The relationship between mother and child, in that world, is a little bit different than it is in our own society. But, no one really likes being a disappointment to their parents and their family.

Zach McGowan

#5. 'Band on the Run' is a carefully composed, intricately designed personal statement that will make it impossible for anyone to classify Paul McCartney as a mere stylist again.

Jon Landau

#6. I don't have any desire to ever act again full time.

Jodie Sweetin

#7. He took a deep breath in, still managing himself as if he were resisting temptation. He was a soldier, his father was in the service, too. Crying wasn't something Morell men did. They just didn't.

He hadn't cried at Robbie Morell's funeral.

So he wasn't going to now.

Luke Taylor

#8. The Apache don't have a word for love," he said.
"Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?"
"Tell me."
"Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.

Louis L'Amour

#9. There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.

Aleksandr Lebed

#10. Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it most. Love is not appropriately expressed in threats, accusations, expressions of disappointment, or retaliation. Real love takes time, patience, help, and continuing performances.

Marvin J. Ashton

#11. Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.

Dean Koontz

#12. I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.

Anne Roiphe

#13. My greatest accomplishment is succeeding in life, and I owe that to my family and twenty years in the military. I don't regret leaving the farm and ranch for the Army. Although I may have been a disappointment to my father, I achieved more than he could ever dream of in his short life.

Tom Johnson

#14. I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.

Kristen Bell

#15. The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals.

Paul Shaffer

#16. And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped.

Anne Lamott

#17. So you try to think
of someone else you're
mad at, and the unavoidable
answer pops into your
warped little brain: everyone.

Ellen Hopkins

#18. It's a wonderful way to get at who someone is through their own love of music and going right at their subconsciousness if you will. You don't play girl singers for girl singers. You know, there's certain things. You do play Ellington for Bobby McFerrin.

Carol Friedman

#19. I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.

Ed Stoppard

#20. Move away from the mid-set that the fulfillment of the organization's mission, vision, and strategic plan is only the work of leaders.

Sue Tetzlaff

#21. Then get your butt out there and watch them. (Remi)
Nice attitude, Rem. Really, you should see about suing whatever asshole sold it to you. (Aimee)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#22. The families of our friends are always a disappointment.

Norman Douglas

#23. I am truly an angel investor and I'am not a passive investor.As a passive investor, I am awful because I can not put funding into a company and leave it to other people.

Terry Matthews

#24. Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.

Eric Hoffer

#25. Variety, as they say, is the spice of life. For me, that counts tenfold in the world of music!

Jason Graves

#26. Since graduating from HMS my greatest satisfaction has unequivocally been my family. My main disappointment is that I have wasted too much time in personal pursuits and been less of an influence for good than I might have been.

Norris B. Finlayson

#27. Expectations led to disappointments; in this family, expecting more than disappointment was the first mistake

Callie Hunter

#28. Friends, family, school, work, love, hate, past, present, future, success, disappointment ... everything has its place on the scale. And without the lows, even those deep, dark, heartbreak-style lows, you can never appreciate how truly amazing the highs can be.

Love Maia

#29. I might have asked, figured her out, led her to open up. I was good at that. But I didn't inquire, a punishment. I didn't let anger go, habit from the dangerous family I'd left behind, from being leery of women. I was good at that, too, the guarded disappointment.

Susanna Sonnenberg