Top 28 Quotes About Family Weekends
#1. Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun?
Tom Hodgkinson
#2. Our experience with the Nazis had shown one thing: where racism is practiced, it damages the whole community, not just the victim group. Were we racists or were we not? That was the important thing to discover.
John Howard Griffin
#3. I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.
Gary Sinise
#4. My sister and I would race on the weekends. It was a way for my sister, my mom and me to spend time with my dad. He worked all week and worked a lot so it was a great way for us to spend time as a family and have fun.
Danica Patrick
#5. Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more time alone than those with jobs.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#6. a family will visit constantly, daily or even twice a day. Then maybe every other day. Then just weekends. After months or years, the visits taper off, until it's just, say, birthdays and Christmas. Eventually, most families move away, as far as they can get.
Paul Kalanithi
#7. You Know What, Hate is Baggage, Life Is To Short To Be Pissed Off All The Time, So Let Go Of Hate And Live Your Live To The Fullest Extent
Terrin White
#8. Everything becomes buffering, and buffering becomes everything.
Tom McCarthy
#9. The old man sold beer after hours on weekends. And that was something that he probably did to top up his earnings as a truck driver. Mum was the traditional housewife. Loving, caring, sharing - always the keynotes of the family.
Lindsay Fox
#10. The god honors the faithful. And who is more true than a man who keeps his oath, though it breaks his heart?
Juliet Marillier
#11. 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
#12. Patience is always the last ingredient in any spell, the last part in any machine, what ever your original blue prints say.
Catherynne M Valente
#13. I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.
Jessica Pare
#14. When I began working in Yahoo, my family moved with me. Despite our efforts, our kids wanted to study in Los Angeles, and I was forced to see my family and friends only on weekends. In the beginning I even enjoyed it, but knew that at some stage I'd want to go back home.
Terry Semel
#15. During the week, my days are consumed with school commitments, play-dates and work for Baby Buggy, a nonprofit I started, which collects kids' gear for parents in need. So on weekends, I look forward to uninterrupted time with my family.
Jessica Seinfeld
#16. 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
#17. We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.
Georg Buchner
#18. Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.
Olivia Williams
#19. We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms.
Nina Fedoroff
#20. 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
#21. In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
Jack Steinberger
#22. I can remember dancing around living room with my two sisters to the music of Paganini and Mozart. I can still remember my dad combing the newspaper, circling all the free concerts in town, and on the weekends, we would go as a family.
Lindsey Stirling
#23. It's so funny to get a call from Dustin Hoffman because he has that great voice.
Andie MacDowell
#24. My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and not yet married, we spent weekends mentoring a family of young girls.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#25. Gymnastics demands so much of our time. We train all week and travel and compete on weekends. The people you're surrounded by really become your second family, your best friends, your sisters. My coach was like a second mother for me.
Amanda Borden
#26. 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
#27. Weekends are sacred for me. They're the perfect time to relax and spend time with family and friends.
Marcus Samuelsson
#28. I write every day, including weekends. For writers, there are no weekends. It's just that your family is around, looking mournful, wondering when you're going to pay attention to them.
Janet Fitch
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