Best 4246 quotes in «family quotes» category

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.

I think there are still words you can't use in family entertainment that you can use in a sitcom today.

I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government, our institutions, our schools...indeed, our way of life are dependent on healthy marriages and loyalty to the vulnerable little children around our feet.

It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.

It is not possible to live in today's society without a cozy home. What is a cozy home? A cozy home is a place where there is a unity in all those who live there, an understanding in all those who relate to it. There is a will to sacrifice for each other; there is a will to live for each other; there is a will to protect each other.

It's been my fate to compensate for the childhood I've never known.

It means caring for one another in our families: husbands and wives first protect one another, and then, as parents, they care for their children, and children themselves, in time, protect their parents.

It's definitely important to stay true to yourself and stay close to those people who you were close to before [becoming famous]. Family, your friends, and just not let that outside stuff get to you.

I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans.

It's hard for them because they want to be proud of me, but I keep reminding them that it's all luck. Luck is what got me here, nothing else.

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

It's nice that I've grown up with the same friends since I was 12, I have a very close knit set of them... I grew up with a lot of people who a lot of other people regarded as heroes, and no one ever came to me for advice, no one ever came to me for protection, and so I don't ever really think I've been looked at as a hero.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

It's the one thing we can all relate to no matter what religion, what color, what nationality: we can all relate to sex and love.

It sounds funny to say, but we saw [Kate's wedding to Prince William] as just a family wedding. And actually, I didn't realize - perhaps - the scale of it until afterwards. We all took on the roles as any family would.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

It's very difficult for people, because when you purify yourself with love you have to merge. Anything in the world is easier to merge than two egos.

It takes a Mother's Patience, to bring a child up right, And her Courage and her Cheerfulness to make a dark day bright.

It takes a Mother’s Love to make a house a home, a place to be remembered, no matter where we roam.

It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.

It was like a family reunion, watching the movie. It's always a good feeling when I can get a screening for my family.

It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.

It turned out to be impossible for me to 'run away' in the sense other American teenagers did. Any movement at all was taken for progress in my family.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.

I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybody comes.

I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

I've made love to my mother, killed my father, and my brother. What am I to do?

I want to see that our older people still feel useful, and our younger people feel engaged in our wider society, and I want to feel that we can bond people from disparate backgrounds, ages and communities together in a greater project, which they get engaged in for the sake of others. Volunteering, in all sorts of ways, seems to me likely to be able to achieve some of that

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio, Valentino, De Niro, Giuliani. . .

I was looking for a father, he was gone. I hung around with the thugs, and even though they sold drugs, they showed a young brother love.

I want to fight for what we got because I believe in family.

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.