"I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family."

Family, Men, Time

15

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family."

Exlpore more Family quotes

"Big Brother is watching you."

George Orwell, British Author

Family, Brother

"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Give, Up, Believe

"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Family, Children, Clothes

"Blessed is the womb that born you."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Blessed, Womb, Birth, Mother

"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Family, Partnership, Decision, Teamwork

"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Family, Ideal, Relationship, Life

"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Father, Speak, Hear, Trust

"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Family, Nostalgia, Memory, Comfort, Love

"Children are angels."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Children, Angels, Blessing, Divine

"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Family, Rules, Rebellion, Youth, Identity

Explore more quotes by Walter Cronkite

"I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since."

Career, Birthday, Want

"There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free."

Freedom,

"In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story."

Truth,

"When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides."

Information, Needs, Population, President

"America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system."

Health, America, Care, Caring

"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough."

Being, Day, News

"Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened."

Job, Public

"I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated."

Celebrity, America, Man

"We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders."

Act, Leaders

"The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck."

Humor, Hunting