Shayne Ward Quotes

Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.

I always thought that if I wanted to do a family, I wanted to do it big. I wanted there to be chaos in the house.

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.

I don't have a lot of men in my life. I'm married, but I have daughters. I'm surrounded by a lot of females in my world.

My father worked for the Foreign Office, so he was away a lot of the time. We were a very volatile family. There was a lot of love and a lot of conflict. The conflict kicked in mostly during my adolescence.

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.

If there were an Oscar for best theatrical performance by a country, Israel would win every year. It's a country based on theater. It's a lunatic state - completely insane.

My mother was a master juggler. If you ask her, she'll say she was a wreck. There's plenty of screaming that went on in the house, but I think it was necessary just to be heard. There were eight children!

Being the father of girls is a kind of illness, in its own way - since any guy who has tried to live in a house with a wife and two daughters is, without any doubt, going to go certifiably nuts.

I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom have a rough time with my dad being very controlling, which is why I push back whenever I feel like someone is trying to box me in. It makes me run for the hills.

Having a parent live with you under the best of circumstances can be a terrible stressor.

War is at its best barbarism.

War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.

It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so it would have been with Billy and Bob, had there been no women in the world.

I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes, ma'am.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

The situation is extraordinary. It is militarism run stark mad. Unless someone acting for you can bring about a different understanding there is some day to be an awful cataclysm.

We can’t blow up the world because of it.

There's a lot going on in the Bassett-Vance household, a lot of balls in the air.

Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong in everybody involved.

Having three kids at home is sometimes like dealing with Democrats and Republicans when you're choosing a restaurant.

My house always had at least 14 people in it. And one bathroom. So I didn't really want to be home.

In our house, there was a lot of yelling. It was everyone walking in on each other and very few boundaries.

Me and my brothers all have different personalities and we definitely clash over living together in a small space.