Family Mysteries Quotes

#1. There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve.

Sherman Alexie

#2. I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the villain, that love is the fond soother of the human breast.

Oliver Goldsmith

#3. Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood.

Henry Cabot Lodge

#4. Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite ... Aye, and even in gen-teel families, in high families, in great families ... and you have no idea ... what games goes on!

Charles Dickens

#5. Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the problem that we've had as actors is that they insist on looking at us as Latino actors and not as actors, period.

Ruben Blades

#6. Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.

John Keats

#7. I always loved watching and reading family-friendly mysteries growing up, like the shows Murder, She Wrote and Nancy Drew, and am thrilled to be bringing these New York Times best-selling books right into your living room on the small screen.

Candace Cameron

#8. Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.

Shannon L. Alder

#9. My dad and I watched 'Amadeus' when I was 6, and I knew I wasn't going to be an engineer.

Sara Chase

#10. For those of us who suspect all the mysteries of life are contained in the microcosm of the family, that personal relationships prefigure all else, the work of Jane Austen is the Rosetta stone of literature.

Anna Quindlen

#11. A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern civilization is withdrawing accumulated solar capital at rates that will exhaust it in a tiny fraction of the time that was needed to create it.

Vaclav Smil

#12. Sometimes you think you know more than you really do - people, events, things that are true and things that are not. Sometimes you think you know yourself. But then, surprise, it is someone else who shows you what is really there, like the truth a photograph shows.

Patricia MacLachlan

#13. All families had started off in some mysterious waay: to repopulate the earth, or by accident, or by force, or out of boredom; and it's all a mystery what each will become.

Yuri Herrera

#14. I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that ... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.

David Morrissey

#15. Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

Peter Greenaway

#16. Sara knew that behind its locked front door no home was routine. Not the house of her childhood, not the apartment of her husband's. not the world they were building together with Willow and Patrick. All households had their mysteries, their particular forms of dysfunction.

Chris Bohjalian

#17. We saved the lives of a whole family that night. Children, parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, all sailed to safety in Sweden inside a little fisherman's boat."

Johannes aka 'BB'
The Informer by Steen Langstrup

Steen Langstrup

#18. I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

Karl Lagerfeld

#19. Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told.

Liane Moriarty

#20. Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part.

Mason Cooley

#21. Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#22. Most people live lives that are full of mysteries, lives whose ultimate purpose we may never really understand. But for the sake of serenity, we must believe in life's nobleness.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#23. Every marriage, every family, has its mysteries.

Liane Moriarty

#24. And God doesn't break his word.

June Bryan Belfie

#25. He didn't like having to start the fire again, that was the source of this small sadness. You get tired of these endless beginnings.

Denis Johnson

#26. Opportunities are abundant, but most people are afraid to do the work

Bob Lefsetz