Best 4246 quotes in «family quotes» category

I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.

I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.

I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.

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

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

I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

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

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

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 do come from a strong family.

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

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

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

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

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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