Top 1200 Best Family Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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.

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.

I came from a very middle class Maharashtrian family. It was a big step to get into movies. My family was shocked.

I think for Thanksgiving particularly I've always, one of the fun things for me about doing a big dinner is having friends and family so we've always done that, and even through our other holidays like having a mix of friends and family, and if you don't have your family nearby, or it's tough for you, find a friend and go and eat with them.

Goldilocks [There] lived a family of bearstogether anthropomorphically in a little cottage as a nuclear family. They were very sorry about this, of course, since the nuclear family has traditionally served to enslave womyn, instill a self-righteous moralism in its members, and imprint rigid notions of heterosexualist roles onto the next generation. [They named] their offspring the non-gender-specific "Baby.

I like to hike and play with my dogs and spend time with my family. We go out to family dinners a lot.

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.

People I work with are part of my family now: I feel like that's the new sense of family around the world.

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

I, like many people, have had bumps in the road when it comes to family. Family dynamics are complicated and weigh heavily on me.

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.

Louisiana is a special place in my family's history, and we are committed as a family to never forget the city and the people of Baton Rouge.

It is a tribute to Indian democracy that a person from a poor family, an ordinary family, is today addressing the nation from the Red Fort.

The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do.

My grandfather created a big family in Italy. He protected the family; he helped them in hospitals and stuff like that.

May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness.

I was looked upon as this privileged actress who was like Yash Chopra's family. He was my second family. Whatever I have achieved is because of him.

I want a family. I see my sister, and she's on her second baby, and I'm like, 'That's success.' Having a family - I can't wait for that.

I love hanging out with my kids, my family. That's something you never really anticipate or understand it until you have a family.

The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn't seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.

I'm a triple citizen of the United States, in Switzerland and Tunisia. And actually beyond just my immediate family, all of my family is abroad.

I grew up in a joint family of 60 people with one kitchen. So I am a firm believer in the family concept.

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

Like most bands we're a family, family before band. If we broke up tomorrow, we'd still be friends.

First and foremost, I feel very lucky to have the family I have, so I would like my family to stay happy and healthy.

I was raised in a household where being gay was like, the most normal thing. My brother is gay, all of my best friends are gay. When my brother came out of the closet, it wasn't a big deal for my family.

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

I'm a second-generation professional wrestler. My family, the Rhodes family, has been wrestling for 50-odd years.

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

I'm very lucky about my family, because they're just a really solid family. I owe everything to them.

What's really fun is seeing mothers bringing their daughters to the shows. And the best part is the mothers know they don't have to worry about sexual innuendo in the songs. The shows are family shows.

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

The best thing I can do is work hard, be ready to train every day, do my best for Torino, do my best when I represent my country and then hopefully the rest will take care of itself.

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.

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

Both my best and worst memories are of my time in Nicaragua. The experience as a whole was totally redeeming and amazing. It sounds so cliche, but I don't care because I'm saying that from the heart. I stayed with a host family and went back to the same kind of rural farming village outside of Managua.

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.

Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.

I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.

I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

There are no 'Leave It to Beaver' families. Everybody's family's got that one nut that comes to the family reunion and you're like, OK, that guy's here.

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.

We were a musical family, and we had record players. It would be a family thing to listen to music together.

The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.

Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.

At some point, I want to create a family and help them on their journey like my family helped me on mine.

Flea stared at us, "I can't decide what's worse. Losing family members or not having a family member to lose.

I have connected with my family more because I have made a group in which I have added all my family members from my paternal and maternal side.

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

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.

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.

Now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire family, as well as myself, my woman, and my team that I consider family.

The real test will be having a family; when I have a family you have to come home, you have to eat dinner with your kids.

I keep saying this to everyone: 'Grand Masti' is a family film that the entire family needs to watch - independently!

Family is the most important thing in the world. If everything ended tomorrow and my family was still there, I'd be the happiest man alive.

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.

I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.