Family Jewels Sayings

#1. A shard of glass cut my belly as I slid into the battered SUV, but I managed to keep the family jewels intact. I'd be counting every small victory tonight. - Author: Lisa Kessler

#2. I can only sign over everything,
the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels,
the soul, the family tree, the mailbox.
Then I can sleep.
Maybe. - Author: Anne Sexton

#3. Within the human being there exists both the needful and the needed. You know that the needful exists in you. Your own dissatisfaction tells you so. But you believe the needed is somewhere outside of you. - Author: Guy Finley

#4. Mother and her entire family line are obsessed with skinniness as an indicator of physical, moral, and economic fitness. - Author: Maggie Nelson

#5. My grandfather used to wear a black hat and coat. You are my children. You are my jewels. We old ones invest our future in you. - Author: Diane Samuels

#6. Even a fish can be used to commit a crime. I handled a murder case once. Some bitch cut off her husband's family jewels. You know what she used? A frozen tilapia she got out of the freezer! The spines along the back were like razors - - Author: Liu Cixin

#7. I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels. - Author: Ezra Miller

#8. I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux. - Author: Donald Knuth

#9. And, in that moment, the person that needed me most was the one walking away. - Author: Alexandra Bracken

#10. It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows, but deciding what is right is much trickier. - Author: Lemony Snicket

#11. Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten. - Author: Mason Cooley

#12. When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can't force them to like it. - Author: Mick Jagger

#13. When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through the sky, hiding for a little time, the splendor of the Sun. - Author: Sathya Sai Baba

#14. One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified. - Author: Cathleen Schine

#15. If motorcycles - or any object from a person's past - could cure this thing, it would no longer exist. People would unearth their family treasures, polish up the old jewels, bring their loved ones back from the moon. - Author: Sarah Ockler

#16. I wish you courage to pursue your dreams. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they can secure it for us in their vaults, or at least insure it against fire and theft. They are mistaken. - Author: Tom Robbins

#18. My family always says my voice is a gift - a precious jewel I inherited from my maternal grandma, Julia Kate Hudson. My sister and I used to joke that the 'Kates' in our family got all the talent. - Author: Jennifer Hudson

#19. Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one. - Author: Craig Brown