Best 4246 quotes in «family quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.

If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie; if ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring.

If you do not love yourself to the depth of totality, you will never love love as a reality.

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.

If you’re a part of my family, I will love you violently.

If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.

If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.

If you want to do your best for future generations of humanity, for your friends and family, you must begin by taking good care of yourself.

If you start giving your kids anxiety about food, it's going to last a lifetime. Moms have to lead by example. Don't say, "Oh, my jeans don't fit," or "Oh, I was bad." No diets. Nothing like that.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

I got born in the wrong family.

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