Famous Quotes

"When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places."

John Cheever on Family

More quotes about Family

• "I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future."

  LaToya Jackson on Family

• "If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher."

  Abdul Kalam on Family

• "Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten."

  David Ogden Stiers on Family

• "The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege."

  Charles Kuralt on Family

• "Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship."

  Margaret Mead on Family

More quotes by John Cheever

• "I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone."

• "For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty."

• "The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."

• "Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house."

• "Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time."