My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.
Jim CarreyThe beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George EliotAll the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.
Amy WinehouseHe that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
Samuel JohnsonI had a lovers quarrel with the world.
Robert FrostMy father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.
Joyce MeyerWhen I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.
Denzel WashingtonNo one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiJealousy is just love and hate at the same time.
DrakeMaxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
Wayne DyerIt is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
Samuel JohnsonI grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.
Beyonce KnowlesMy songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.
Kurt CobainIn terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.
Colin PowellWhat I remember as a child is that other kids didn’t care about suffering. I always did.
Vivienne WestwoodMy own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I’ve had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm’s way until they could be their own guides.
Wayne DyerIt is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.
Lady GagaI always wanted to be loved.
Dolly PartonA woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.
Marilyn MonroeBetter to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
B. C. ForbesI used to live on one candy bar a day – it cost a nickel. I always remember the candy bar was called Payday. That was my payday. And that candy bar tasted so good, at night I would take one bite, and it was so beautiful.
Charles BukowskiI used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I’d have a hairy conniption. I’d just go crazy.
Jim CarreyOf all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
EpicurusLoving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
Maya AngelouMy mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that’s all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn’t Mama. Now I’ve bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.
Dolly PartonLove can do much, but duty more.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWithout friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
AristotleI met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.
Dolly PartonChildren begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar WildeI have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.
Dylan ThomasIf you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine HepburnFeels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
Adam SandlerTell your wife often how terrific she looks.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘
Matthew McConaugheyBe slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin FranklinNo woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
Alexander PopeIf the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
James BaldwinWhat women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.
Kevin HartAs I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.
Clint EastwoodI was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I moved up to Yorkshire, which is in the north of England. I lived on the farms up there.
David BowieWhen the people you love are gone, you’re alone.
Keanu ReevesNot cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
Marcus Tullius CiceroSometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine HepburnWe may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
Mahatma GandhiLife is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tennessee WilliamsYou know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.
Beyonce KnowlesFriendship is essentially a partnership.
AristotleHusbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Marilyn MonroeAnd ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Khalil GibranWhen you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.
Beyonce KnowlesIs it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?
Jiddu KrishnamurtiFamiliarity breeds contempt – and children.
Mark TwainWhen we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
Khalil GibranI think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.
Taylor SwiftLove is a serious mental disease.
PlatoMy daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘
Kevin HartWhen befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
Benjamin FranklinI feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.
The WeekndI don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.
Woody AllenI think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.
Tom Brady