Family Weekend Quotes

#1. Apparently, it was common for children to participate in the Civil War, and thus, lots of fathers had brought their sons along for a fun family weekend of simulated violence and bloodshed.

Stuart Gibbs

#2. NEW YORK- A 2-yearold girl who wandered away from a holiday weekend family barbecue in a city park was found dead in a lake after a desperate five-hour search by police and bystanders.

Anonymous

#3. One of the most empowering things about being a self-employed actor is also one of the hardest things; I get to set my own goals.

Benjamin Stone

#4. How vast a memory has Love!

Alexander Pope

#5. A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.

Daniel Kahneman

#6. College is a magic time. Yes, you're young and fickle, but you want to be part of this college experience ... Then you graduate from that. You have your first job, moving to a new city.

David Sze

#7. Mitt Romney and his family have a big two-day weekend plan. They're going to hike to the top of his money.

David Letterman

#8. In growing up in Seattle, I don't know a single family that didn't barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its own kind of simple, pared-down, what I call Pacific Northwest cooking.

Mario Batali

#9. The whole market mechanism and its evolution is something that, I'm kind of of the Buffett School. You know, if I see a derivative, I run the other way.

Felix Rohatyn

#10. Stop doing things that waste time. Don't replace time with your family or things that you need to do. I needed to put together two fantasy teams this weekend because that's something I enjoy, but I did stop playing Nintendo Wii for hours on end.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#11. Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend.

Susannah York

#12. One of the reasons my father ... became a dentist was so he could always be home for dinner and spend weekends with his family. At one point he had thought about being a musician, but he said, I'm not going to do that because I'd be on the road all the time and I wouldn't be with my family.

Dean Ornish

#13. Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.

Bo Bennett

#14. I suddenly remember how different I am from most of the kids here. Nobody would have to drag me or my brothers to the Bahamas; we'd swim there if we could. For us, a family vacation is staying at a local hotel with a swimming pool for a weekend.

Angie Thomas

#15. I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun.

Brandi Chastain

#16. We never have that thought! The whole object is to bite off more than you can chew. John [Du Prez] always says, Eric thinks of something completely insane and insists we go in that direction. It's the correct way to look at things and the correct place to start, I think.

Eric Idle

#17. When I run, I think about everything: physics, family problems, plans for the weekend. I haven't made any big discoveries on a run, but it does give me time to think through problems. Some solutions are obvious, but they are only obvious when you are relaxed enough to find them.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#18. Enough or not...it will have to do

Leo Tolstoy

#19. Take a look at my family, a different father every weekend.

Tupac Shakur

#20. When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.

Chris Bohjalian

#21. I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.

Simon Pegg

#22. Browsing our local farmer's market is one of my family's favorite weekend activities. Make it a relaxing, healthful habit for your family, and you'll reap the nutritional rewards.

Suzanne Somers

#23. He was really into family ... He'd never come on the road with me on the weekends 'cause he wanted to spend time with his wife.

Amy Schumer

#24. Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

Pamela Ribon

#25. The world progresses! Why shouldn't it turn as well?

Arthur Rimbaud

#26. I grew up in a family where everybody had a good time and we were at the lake every weekend and going to the beach and living a good life. It's been the way we always lived, and my wife's the same way - enjoy every day and have fun.

Luke Bryan

#27. I think you have to plan ahead. When I go to the market on a Saturday, and I'm buying for family and friends, I'm thinking about what I'm going to eat on the weekend but also about what I'm going to make for the following week.

Alice Waters

#28. One weekend in the vacation, I was invited to meet her family. They lived in Kent, out on the Orpington line, in one of those suburbs which had stopped concreting over nature at the very last minute, and ever since smugly claimed rural status.

Julian Barnes

#29. She wondered how big the world was, really, when you crossed it, instead of traced it with your finger on the map.

Jodi Picoult

#30. I know what it's like to have a young child at the weekend and feel like there is nothing to see in the movie theatre. Family is so important.

Teri Hatcher

#31. We made the iPod for ourselves, and when you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.

Walter Isaacson