Best 4246 quotes in «family quotes» category

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pillow.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life-the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible.

I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds.

I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion.

I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren.

I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now.

I do come from a strong family.

I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

I don't think any change in the world has been more significant than the change in the status of women. . . . A woman's world was her home, her family, and perhaps a little community service. Today, a woman's world is as broad as the universe.

I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so...My husband and I have been married for 34 years, and we have two daughters. And every day you have to make a decision about whether you are going to be a wife or a mother. In fact, many times during the day you have to make those decisions...We co-opted our families to help us. We plan our lives meticulously so we can be decent parents. But if you ask our daughters, I'm not sure they will say that I've been a good mom.

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

I don't want to say anything about my kids...but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

I enjoy the company of other people. That's where I get most of my satisfaction from

If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless

I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.

If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if he has been truly valued at home ... he grows up secure enough to look beyond himself to the welfare of others.

If a woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family, huge issue for our economy and our country's well being.

I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.

I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

If my superiors shall permit me to come home, I hope it will be soon; if they mean I should stay abroad, I am not able to say what I shall do, until I know in what capacity. One thing is certain, that I will not live long without my family.

If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

If love could be purchased, everybody would have paid a thousand dollars a pound for it. You know it doesn't work that way.

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

If the entire divinity and domain of God sits in the heart of a person, and his longing becomes timeless, then man can develop the capacity to love.

If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.

If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.

If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.

If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance

If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.

If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us - our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states. That is why the practice of meditation, looking deeply, is so important.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

If we look honestly at our relationships, we can see so much about how we have created them

If you are bitter, it will eat you up and do you much more damage than the people who have hurt you

If you can do any favor for yourself, if you want to understand yourself, if you really want to build anything for yourself, try to make a plan to have a cozy home and a cozy partner. When even God may leave you, your partner should not-that kind of partner; a partner who does not know how to part. If your partner knows that he can part, he does not yet have the power to unite.

If you cannot put the ego on the side you cannot succeed in love, period. Therefore love must defeat it.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.