Family Gathering Quotes

#1. Don't you know that's what college is about ... students spending years gathering useless information they'll never use again, going hopelessly into debt, just so they feel smarter than the rest of their family? I mean, that's why I worked so hard to get here, anyway.

A.L. Jackson

#2. If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

Robert Breault

#3. If you wait this long to put an album out, you'd better be sure you tried your best.

Nelly Furtado

#4. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE DAN KIRKSEN OPENED THE WASHINGTON POST AND started to take a sip of his orange juice. It never reached his mouth. Gavin had managed to file a story on the Sullivan case consisting chiefly of the information that Jack Graham, newly ordained partner at Patton,

David Baldacci

#5. True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Pauline Phillips

#6. As long as the enemy is not defeated, he may defeat me; then I shall be no longer my own master; he will dictate the law to me as I did to him.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#7. Disease is the biggest money maker in our economy.

John H. Tobe

#8. We live in a complicated society, Bromley - one that is changing and which does indeed need to change. But do you not think any change must begin within our own family gathering?

P.J. Parker

#9. I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.

Edward Jenner

#10. The mortal experience ... is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's course for credit and there are no summers off - not even semester breaks.

Neal A. Maxwell

#11. If you can't be committed to another person, at least be committed to the concept of character and don't cheat.

Jerry Springer

#12. In spite of my conviction that a group of deliberately assembled relatives can be one of the dullest, if not most dangerous, gatherings in the world, I am smugly foolhardly enough to have invited all my available family, more than once, to dine with me.

M.F.K. Fisher

#13. Gathering of the Vibes is a gathering of the elders, a gathering of the youth, a gathering of family

Steve Kimock

#14. The time will come when only those who believe deeply and actively in the family will be able to preserve their families in the midst of the gathering evil around us.

Spencer W. Kimball

#15. Entitlement breeds laziness, which in turn breeds decline. But of course with enough money, it is possible not to notice for decades that your family name is gathering dust.

Matthew FitzSimmons

#16. The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.

George Orwell

#17. CHILD: "Why does carrot cake have the best icing?" MOTHER: "Because it needs the best icing." Quantum Nonlocality and the Death of Elvis Presley You may remember

B.J. Novak

#18. Beyond a certain point, gathering further evidence of the hurtfulness and shortcomings of one's family, employer, et cetera is like eating the same poisonous mushroom over and over and expecting that sooner or later it will be nutritious.

Mark Vonnegut

#19. People are less than whole unless they gather themselves voluntarily into groups of souls in harmony. Gathering themselves to pursue individual, family, and community dreams consistent with their private humanity is what makes them whole; only slaves are gathered by others.

John Taylor Gatto

#20. You wanted a family. It doesn't get much more typical than an eccentric cougar sexually assaulting a hot, yet quirky uncle at a family gathering,

Randi Cooley Wilson

#21. What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Robert Breault

#22. It's all about loyalty and collaboration, gathering your gang around you, finding your soulmate in filmmaking because it is a collaborative process. When failure happens, that family you gathered regroups around you and gives you the fresh energy you're lacking.

Matthew Jacobs