Top 1200 About Family Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life.

When people say crazy stuff about me or my family, I don't take it seriously.

I didn't have a blueprint from my childhood that I could call on, which is an enormous deficit when you're trying to put together a family life. I didn't see a family life where men were thriving inside of it. You know, my dad tended to blame the family for his inability to achieve what he wanted to achieve, you know? So, unfortunately, I was coming from that particular frame of mind.

In my family, Fashion was something we never talked about, it was thought of as kind of superficial.

It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families.

I have my family, which is my main thing; the organization; a modeling career. All these things are important, but family definitely comes first.

I've never heard a song written from a stepmother's point of view, about their family.

If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like freedom of speech, the most basic right. Freedom from violence, since women worldwide are still like 70% at least of all victims of violence. Equality in the family, democracy in the family, since the family is the microcosm of everything else, so if you have inequality and violence in the family, it normalizes it in the street, for foreign policy, for every place else.

I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.

Directing is about as visual as I get and I will leave artmaking to the rest of the family.

Being an actors' family, we generally didn't think about any other profession.

One of the things I'm most proud of over the years, is time management and balancing family and work. Everyday, you just look at what needs to be done and do that, what needs to be done. That includes the idea that family is first, kids are first and when you're with the family, put the phone down, look them right in the eye.

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

They get the faceless bureaucrats in Brussels and Strasbourg who have ruled and told the Brits how to live and making promises for them that their lives would get better and talking about a future based on globalism versus family and individual and local community. That's what Brexit was all about.

I'm not a glory guy about anything. I just wanted to work to support my family.

My dad left when I was two and I didn't know too much about his family.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Growing up, movies were something my family and, later, my friends and I would stay up all night talking about. The movies I remember moved me and forced you to think about things that made you know yourself better.

If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do, but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic. [That worldview] is that the only thing that matters is family and personal connection, and that's the only thing that gives life meaning. Religion and gods and beliefs - for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole, it's about human connections.

You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.

I have always felt it was my duty to protect my family. After Imran became family, I defended him in every way.

I also wanted my basketball players to know that I really cared about them. Forget basketball; as a person, I cared, I cared about their family.

We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know. We are made to tell the world that there are no outsiders. All are welcome: black, white, red, yellow, rich, poor, educated, not educated, male, female, gay, straight, all, all, all. We all belong to this family, this human family, God's family.

When you talk about sacrifices, the ones in my family who have sacrificed are my children, because I love what I'm doing. I love the work. I love to go out there and talk about organizing the people. To me, that's something I really enjoy.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

I think Christmas, for me, has always been about family, as cliche as that sounds.

My favorite thing about the success I've found is that I get to share it with my family and the ones that I love.

The only person I worry about pleasing is God, my husband, my family, and myself.

You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy.

People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.

The great thing about having a small family is that there are fewer people to disappoint.

My family has always been private about our time spent together.

Folks are serious about three things: Their religion, their family and, most of all, their money.

I've always wanted to live in America with my family and learn more about its culture.

So many of my favorite stories, in any medium, are about friendship. Those relationships are so often just as emotional and complex as any romantic or family dynamics, and yet there's a dearth of resonant, grounded films about platonic bonds in American films.

It's really all about family, love and the children for me. I work at that every day.

I don't just empathise with the victims of Islamophobia; I worry about my own friends and family.

For me, the burning desire has always been about building what my family had.

I'm more apt to shed a tear than my wife about family matters.

I never talked about homosexuality with my family. After I was 18, they know everything, but I never talk; it was like an information but in silence. I start to talk when I was 32, it was good for me - it was like a liberation. I'm talking about a love story. I'm not talking about sex because love is love.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Donald Trump has a pre-modern monarchic family structure. His business is a monarchy with family members all around. His administration is a monarchy with family members all around.

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.

I'm just very keen to have a family and both Catherine and I, you know, are looking forward to having a family in the future.

In Israel, it always meant - and a lot of that is still true - there was only one kind of man you could be, there were no alternatives, no options. If you were from a good family, you were supposed to be a successful soldier at 18 and be strong, and prepared to protect your wife and family, or family and children, and be prepared to die for your country.

That's what's cool about working for Disney: everyone gets along. It's like a family.

My family is very close. I can't say that about many people I meet in Hollywood.

The most important thing about a family is that all the people in it love each other.

I feel vulnerable in a good way. When I talk about my family, I usually have happy tears.

What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'

Country music's so about the nuclear family and living the southern lifestyle and everything.

Now, I'm thinking about more important things: my family, kids, my career.

I came from a military family, so there are a lot of things I think about when the anthem is playing.

The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. Having a family guarantees that you have a built in support system, and although that support system may not always be what you want it to be, when it comes down to the wire, your family will love you and stand behind you, no matter what.

I was never that kid that wanted to be in politics. What happened was, I graduated with a degree in accounting. I came back home to the family business. I saw how hard it was to make a ­dollar, and how easy it was for the government to take it. And my mom said, "Quit complaining about it. Do something about it."

For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery.

And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.