Best 4246 quotes in «family quotes» category

I hate to see a young man get ahead on the basis of a famous family name.

I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

I have a very strong family.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.

I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.

I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

I just love thinking about what makes people tick

I know if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

I know how to do anything, I'm a mom.

I like to see a home like this, a home connected with people's thoughts and work, things they love.

I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

I'm a little tired. I haven't been out for more than five or six weeks in the States, and that's really a lot for me. You know, to me, music is important, it's the way I make my living and I like it and I enjoy playing. But it's not the most important thing in my life - that's my family.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

I love you but you didn't bring me flowers. Your love is hanging on flowers! You are seasonal, conditional, demanding and bargaining. Love is not a bargain. Love is not a business. It cannot be bought and sold. It has no condition. When you put a condition on love, it evaporates.

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

I'm hopeful that people don't give up on marriage. When it works, it's a gift from God because you can't always have it work out the way you want.

I'm gay, it's all a big scam. My kids don't even know who their mother is.

I'm happy, my family's happy, everything is going well.

I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!'

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government

I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.

I'm the only hell my Mama ever raised.

In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.

Inasmuch as the domestic household is antecedent, as well as in idea as in fact, the family must necessarily have rights and duties which are prior than those of the Community and founded more immediately in nature.

In each life, no matter how it's lived, there is cause for fascination and often delight

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction.

In families there are frequently matters of which no one speaks, nor even alludes. There are no words for these matters. As the binding skeleton beneath the flesh is never acknowledged by us and, when at last it defines itself, is after all an obscenity.

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement

In fact, the family as an institution is both oppressive and protective and, depending on the issue, is experienced sometimes one way, sometimes the other - often in some mix of the two - by most people who live in families.

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.

In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.