Family Quotes And Sayings

Quotes And Sayings About Family

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Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.
~By James Levine ~


If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~


Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.
~By Martha Griffiths ~


So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.
~By Ruben Blades ~


I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and I was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.
~By Judi Dench ~


If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family. And that makes you at home in that world and not fearful. So really it's very self-serving.
~By Susan Sarandon ~


My family lives there, so I come back sometimes between shows for a couple days. I get back a couple times a year. When I was 30 to 34 I was weirded out when I came back - you know, how your past gets away from you. It's grown so much.
~By Matthew Sweet ~


I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.
~By Orlando Bloom ~


Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.
~By Gary Oldman ~


Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.
~By Julie Walters ~


Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.
~By Oliver Hudson ~


I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
~By Gene Tierney ~


Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.
~By Sofia Coppola ~


My whole family is lactose intolerant and when we take pictures we can't say cheese.
~By Jay London ~


The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
~By Richard Bach ~


I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.
~By Angela Cartwright ~


My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out.
~By Ajay Naidu ~


As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.
~By Kenzaburo Oe ~


I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.
~By Todd Akin ~


Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.
~By Tom Bosley ~


My family, my parents are hippies.
~By Shia LaBeouf ~


Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your head.
~By Martin Mull ~


I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.
~By Clay Aiken ~


Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.
~By Juliette Binoche ~


The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.
~By Marge Kennedy ~


I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.
~By James D'arcy ~


There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it's like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there's a certain energy that attracts that.
~By Rose McGowan ~


I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.
~By Diana Ross ~


Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.
~By Sister Parish ~


Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's rights for them and their family.
~By Shaquille O'Neal ~


I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
~By Karrie Webb ~


That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
~By August Strindberg ~


I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.
~By Paris Hilton ~


Certainly, my father would not want to see me destroy myself in this business, as so many people in our family have been destroyed. I try to take good care of myself, but we are fighting the good fight, and the truth is powerful.
~By Sam Sheppard ~


Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.
~By Thomas Cochrane ~


We use tools such as email, not just as a way to keep in daily touch with family members who live in other cities, but also as a way to keep in touch with staff and members of the public.
~By Tipper Gore ~


Our extended family is an integral part of our daily lives and Connie and I welcome you with open arms.
~By Frank Jordan ~


My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.
~By Jay McShann ~


For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.
~By Andrei Sakharov ~


In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.
~By Antonin Scalia ~


I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
~By Anne Tyler ~


Sometimes I wish I didn't have somebody in my family who's in the business.
~By Scott Caan ~


The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.
~By Miley Cyrus ~


Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.
~By Mike Honda ~


Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family.
~By Bill Toomey ~


To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
~By Pope John Paul II ~


The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
~By Adam Weishaupt ~


My favorite room in the house is the living room. We have two big couches, six recliners and over 20 pillows. It's a really comfortable place to hang out with my family.
~By Cody Linley ~


You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
~By Desmond Tutu ~


The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
~By Christopher Lasch ~


On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children are born and the investment in children is the greatest investment a country can make. The benefits of this investment go to everyone.
~By Rocco Buttiglione ~


I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~


For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family.
~By Avi Arad ~


I live quietly at home among my family and friends.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~


I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.
~By Tom Brokaw ~


A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
~By Walter Bagehot ~


I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.
~By Sigourney Weaver ~


I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family.
~By Monica Bellucci ~


Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
~By Denzel Washington ~


We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.
~By Patricia Ireland ~


This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
~By John Thorn ~


As the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name.
~By Connie Chung ~


I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.
~By Abbe Pierre ~


We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland.
~By Maureen Reagan ~


He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
~By Chanakya ~


Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.
~By Roy Clark ~


The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it's less odd that it's lasted for over thirty years; and why it may last in some respects as long as Mother Goose!
~By Christopher Knight ~


In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.
~By Jack Irons ~


The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
~By Laura Miller ~


The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
~By Christopher Lasch ~


My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.
~By Jack Herer ~


I just love where I am right now in my career. I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre. I've been able to have a solid career that we've built one step at a time and a family. I know that I'm in a good place.
~By Martina McBride ~


The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it.
~By Marguerite Moreau ~


My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment.
~By Davy Jones ~


In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
~By Jack Steinberger ~


We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
~By John Sculley ~


No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
~By Peace Pilgrim ~


My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my sense of humor.
~By Karen Duffy ~


I've always like roadracing, but you know how it is in a family when you're young. They thought it was a little too dangerous so I started with Trials riding.
~By Sete Gibernau ~


I will commit myself to making this state an even greater place to live, work and raise a family. I intend to reach out from border to border to hear first-hand from our citizens about their thoughts, concerns and ideas for our state.
~By Dave Heineman ~


I don't think at that time I realized how important it was and how important it was for me to be here and carry on that legacy in our family of being a photographer.
~By Kim Weston ~


I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its not the easiest thing in the world to live with a kid who's trying to become a rock and roll drummer.
~By Max Weinberg ~


I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.
~By Rocco DiSpirito ~


We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
~By Barbra Streisand ~


People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.
~By Geoffrey Rush ~


I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.
~By Marisa Tomei ~


I have seen that the American Dream is a reality - and I would love to feel the British Dream is also a reality. To enable that, we have to bring back some common sense and encourage family values, a proper sense of justice and make people believe they have a decent chance to build a business or career for themselves. I see this moment as a fantastic opportunity to restore this, because I believe Britain Has Talent.
~By Simon Cowell ~


Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.
~By Wilhelm von Humboldt ~


Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.
~By Erik H. Erikson ~


They stayed by my side the whole time - my teammates, family and all the fans.
~By William Green ~


Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.
~By Nancy Kerrigan ~


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


I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.
~By Sting ~


I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream alive for every family and I share the concern about rising tuition costs.
~By Mark Kennedy ~


The 'movement' is paramount, the concept of 'family' is the symbol we wish to project.
~By Juan Antonio Samaranch ~


An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes.
~By Kim Campbell ~


My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.
~By Wentworth Miller ~


Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
~By Gary Oldman ~


A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.
~By Rick Moranis ~


I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life.
~By Frankie Avalon ~

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December 6 ,2023
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