Gathright Family Reunion Quotes

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion. ~ Wentworth Miller

I was going as soon as the ball hit the bat, it was lucky that it was a chopper. I just ran and hoped to God I was safe. ~ Joey Gathright

You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. ~ Joseph Kesselring

I've never been to a class reunion or anything because I'm always afraid of that one - there's going to be some 'Carrie'-like incident. ~ Paul Feig

One of the best things about Heaven is that we will be able to reunite with loved ones who have already passed on. It will be the greatest family reunion we've ever known, with our loved ones, relatives and ancestors all together in one place at the same time, rejoicing. All together at last! ~ David Berg

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

This dress exacerbates the genetic betrayal that is my legacy. ~ Janeane Garofalo

'Rescue From Gilligan's Island' was the first of the so-called reunion shows on the networks, getting a 54 share. With numbers like that, everybody else started to have reunion shows. ~ Sherwood Schwartz

If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion. ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind. ~ Thomas Jefferson

The only thing sweeter than union is reunion. ~ Kathleen McGowan

I won't do a reunion tour unless my solo career fails miserably. ~ Robert Plant

You look out into the audience and you see so much joy on people's faces. You make eye contact with people who are almost crying because they can't believe they're seeing the Rumours five back again, they can't believe their eyes. It's almost like a family reunion on stage, there's no angst, there's no animosity, there's just tremendous amount of friendship. ~ Christine McVie

I try to stay far away from all of them. I was tempted to go to my snotty high school reunion, but luckily I resisted the urge
when I received the hand-out that described what everyone is doing now, I fell asleep reading it. Boring! ~ Princess Superstar

A worship team that prays together stays together. ~ Gangai Victor

Believers have a genuine, unfailing hope of a future reunion with loved ones ... we can find joy in anticipating our future reunion. ~ Paul P. Enns

I would love to do a reunion tour if it only involved basements across the U.S. ~ Carrie Brownstein

Damn. It looks to me like I just missed the best reunion since Sherman got together with Atlanta. ~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Eve. The Lee family reunion, never a lively affair, is interrupted ~ Agatha Christie

It's quite the family reunion we're having in here. ~ Cynthia Hand

As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion. ~ Slash

She'd never actually smiled at a family reunion before. It felt odd. ~ Louise Penny

I would rather be at Reggae Sunsplash, which happens once a year, than doing some horrible Brady Bunch reunion. ~ Susan Olsen

Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion. ~ Penelope Cruz

I can't put this delicately - everyone goes to their high school reunion wanting to see who they 'beat.' ~ Megyn Price

Having a blood family means suddenly revising a definition of family that I have, over many years, learned to accept. How can I hold both concepts in my mind or find room for both families in my heart? ~ Soojung Jo

S then, every family reunion is bolstered by food, lots and lots of it. ~ Laura Castoro

No one's going to be at our hundred-year reunion. Hell, no one's coming back for the five-year reunion." That was probably true. ~ Amy Zhang

In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months. ~ Jeff Dunham

We did a reunion when TV One first launched episodes of 'Living Single'. Every time any of the gang comes through Atlanta, though, we always visit. ~ Kim Fields

I haven't heard anything about a reunion show for Sisters. But if the script was good I would do it. ~ Sela Ward

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet. ~ Bill Cosby

People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway. ~ Mother Teresa

Reunions are the first day of school all over again. Time casts away familiarity and replaces it with warm confusion. Seeing how the years have frayed the friends of our youth reminds us that we too have irrevocably changed and can never return to a state of innocence again. ~ Stewart Stafford

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation. ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Yeah, I'm thinking it's a reunion or, since it is our classmates, a collection of idiots. Let's call it a meese. Like geese, only with morons. (Caleb) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

It's hard to imagine the whole punk movement without The Velvet Underground. I toured with them when they did their reunion tour, and no one sounds like that; they are a very unique-sounding band. ~ Dean Wareham

Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five. ~ Roger Andrew Taylor

When the food runs out, the family reunion is over. It's cool that out of all my relatives, I'm the only cannibal. ~ Jarod Kintz

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one. ~ Paul Simon

Afghanistan changed him, but Iraq sculpted him. ~ Melissa Seligman

Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion. ~ Umberto Eco

The force of love, the force of reunion is unstoppable. ~ Charles Eisenstein

It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions. ~ Dick Cavett

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of resurrection. - ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, German philosopher ~ Bernd Heinrich

Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie. ~ Shawn Ashmore

Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated. ~ Paul Tillich

That's the fun of going to a high school reunion: it's seeing the people who you were close to all those years ago, and re-exploring the relationships of the past. ~ Jon Hurwitz

Surprise, surprise! I have a band! I'm really excited that we have a song on the soundtrack of 'American Reunion' for that very reason. ~ Thomas Ian Nicholas

You might be a redneck if your grandfather completely executes the pull my finger trick at the family reunion. ~ Jeff Foxworthy

Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans. ~ Michelle Bachelet

Let's put it this way: there wouldn't be much point in me attending a high-school reunion now because there wouldn't be anybody there. We'd struggle to raise a quorum. ~ Clint Eastwood

I went to James Monroe High School, a big school in the East Bronx. My first promotion was the first alumni reunion dance. I got all the names and addresses out of the yearbook. It came off very well. ~ Sid Bernstein

The people in 'July, July' do find themselves looking backward, talking to others and to themselves about those over-the-cliff, fork-in-the-road moments in their lives. I imagine this is what must happen at a 30th college reunion. ~ Tim O'Brien

As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead. ~ George Harrison

Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA doesn't make you fast friends. This wasn't a joyous reunion. It was just awkward. ~ Jodi Picoult

The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ. ~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

It has been my experience that immediately after certain traumatic separations - leaving one's family to go to war, for instance, or upon the death of a family member, or after parting from one's beloved with no assurances of reunion - there is a strange calmness, almost a sense of relief, as if the worst has happened and nothing else need be dreaded. ~ Dan Simmons

Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

A football could be swapped out for a brick, to make family reunion football games more fun. But I'm calling it right now: I get to be quarterback. ~ Jarod Kintz

History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents: Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil. ~ Bob Dole

Yeah, I know, but word came from Artemis herself that she wanted him here. Looks like we're having a psycho reunion this week ... Oh wait, it's Mardi Gras. Duh. (Talon) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big 'Brady Bunch' reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew. ~ James Wolcott

Forever. To create a family with a spouse is one of the most fundamental ways a person can find continuity and meaning in American (or any) society. I rediscover this truth every time I go to a big reunion of my mother's family in Minnesota and I see how everyone is held so reassuringly in their positions over the years. First you are a child, then you are a teenager, then you are a young married person, then you are a parent, then you are retired, then you are a grandparent - at every stage you know who you are, you know what your duty is and you know where to sit at the reunion. You sit with the other children, or teenagers, or young parents, or retirees. Until at last you are sitting with the ninety-year-olds in the shade, watching over your progeny with satisfaction. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

About 80 percent of the photos on Flickr are public and searchable by everyone. In one sense, it's a place where people upload snapshots from the family reunion, wedding or the birth of a baby or something like that, but it's also a place where people go to show what the world looks like to them. ~ Stewart Butterfield

At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers. ~ Peter Jurasik

Family is just accident, Jessie. It's nothing personal, hon. They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are. ~ Marsha Norman

Fine." Patrick muttered without confidence. "Anything is better than waiting around here." "Time for a little family reunion." Johnny remarked. At the agreement, the four trekked the rest of the way down the empty alley. As he passed the final building Patrick peered ~ Brendan Walsh

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not? ~ Susan Straight

I accept that I am affected by the things that affect me. I am independent and I am free. ~ James Constable B.1976

I never go to a college reunion that I don't come away feeling sorry for all those paunchy, balding jocks trying to hang onto youth. I feel sorry for the men, too. ~ Erma Bombeck

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter. ~ Brad Henry

The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven. ~ Richard Paul Evans

The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird. ~ Alvin Lee

The only thing I want to be satisfied in life is to do one reunion tour with Guns N' Roses. I would like to finish what I started with them. ~ Steven Adler

Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions ... ~ Anita Shreve

I think brown marks a reunion of peoples, an end to ancient wanderings. Rival cultures and creeds conspire with Spring to create children of a beauty, perhaps of a harmony, previously unknown. Or long forgotten. ~ Richard Rodriguez

My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys. ~ Bobby Darin

A few minutes after the initial excited greetings they found themselves journeying in a maxi cab with a contended expression on their fatigued countenances as the moment held promise of forthcoming days of bliss and catch-up prattle that usually follows a family reunion. ~ Neetha Joseph

With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me? ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

And off we go, out onto the highway looking for a little fun. Perhaps a flatbed truck loaded with human cadavers will explode in front of a Star Trek reunion. One can only dream and hope. ~ George Carlin

I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me. ~ Eric Avery

As he moves through his day, sometimes he stops and just stares at me. There is something on the tip of his tongue. But he doesn't say it. I'm not sure he knows what it is. ~ Melissa Seligman

I love my family but my family - they're the type of people that never let you forget anything you ever did ... I was in the first grade Christmas play - I'm playing Mary. Now, during the course of the play, I dropped the baby Jesus ... They still talk about this. I go to my family reunion, and one of my cousins just had a baby. So I'm like, 'Oh, that's a cute little baby. Let me hold the baby ... ' And my aunt runs over, 'Don't you give her that baby! You know she dropped the baby Jesus!' ~ Wanda Sykes

A theatrical spectacle is inherent whenever family members congregate and reacquaint themselves with powerful universal themes educed from homecomings including hugs, food, drink, conversation, politics, games, music, conflict, terror, mercy, smiles, tears, prayers, misfortune, and self-discovery. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I realized at that moment that depression and I will always be linked, tugging back and forth, like the drunken uncle who still gets invited to the family reunion even though everyone knows he's going to make a messy scene. ~ Kelly Wilson

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center. ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street. ~ Willie Stargell

Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is. ~ Madonna

My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the reunion with documents! ~ Stacy Schiff

To be surrounded by sixty people who make your life miserable is to be at a family reunion. But to be surrounded by 600,000 people who make the whole world miserable is to live in Washington DC. ~ Jarod Kintz

And because of the reunion I think we've got more energy and enthusiasm than we've ever had. And it's genuine. I think the fans can detect when you're genuine, when you love what you do, and we love to be there on stage. That's what we thrive on. ~ Glenn Tipton

The vigor I lacked for physical activities became incandescent when, pen in hand, I filled those pages with invented stories. Sometimes they were intimately about me – family tales, parental exploits – sometimes they became horrific stories sprinkled with torture, death, and reunion: crazy games and tear-soaked sagas. ~ Philippe Grimbert

We'll be together there," said Valentine. "As we should be." That sounds terrific,thought Clary.Just you, your comatose wife, your shell-shocked son, and your daughter
who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like
a perfect family reunion. ~ Cassandra Clare

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained. ~ Winston S. Churchill

The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion ... one would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it. ~ Emil Cioran

They say family's first, but family is the first to get you hurt ~ Chrisper Malamsha

Family cannot be determined by blood. Family is determined by actions. Family is about trust. Family is about acceptance. Family is about love. True family is earned, not born. ~ Sarah Brianne

No normal sheet of paper could possibly trace their family tree, which in any case was more like a mangrove thicket. ~ Terry Pratchett

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. ~ Oscar Wilde