Top 1200 Family Gathering Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

When will we get done with the fool idea that the way to make a party grow is to scare away everybody who has an extra dollar in his pocket? God forbid that the Democratic Party should become a mere gathering of the unsuccessful!

But I'm proud to come from a family of Republicans and, yes, we have some spirited discussions in our family.

This is not a family of privilege by any stretch of the imagination. Our family is very low key.

The work that I do, I am grateful to do and honored and privileged to do, but I do it for my family and, if you don't have a family, then what does it mean?

I have such a strong sense of family, and I really valued the idea of meeting someone else's family.

I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from a family of five.

The people of the Balkans are like a dysfunctional family. We may fight and argue, but in the end we are family.

Having a writer in the family is a curse - for the family. I do feel more or less guilty when I'm writing.

When I do an Asian character or an Asian voice I'm doing one because that's my heritage and my family and where I come from. My family is of Korean descent and specifically North Korean descent. So it makes sense for me to talk about that issue because it's the only weapon I have to somehow avenge my family and my history.

My stepdad was a farmer, so growing up, during summer breaks, I woke up every morning and went to work. Harvesting tobacco, picking cucumbers, gathering watermelons from the patch, pulling up sweet potatoes... stuff like that.

I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. The Gathering did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.

It's true that in my family, everyone loves football. So it's great to have a family that's united behind you and doesn't leave you.

To be willing to live within the imagination is to commit oneself to the gathering together of the pieces that might begin to form a self. To avoid this territory is to avoid the encounters that might validate, inform, or enhance one's experience.

Grandparents...can give the children unity of family life and some knowledge of their own family history.

I grew up in a family that my father was a very, very, a person with so many ideas, so many new visions and dreams. For me to grow up in that family, that also helped me to have a vision to create and open boundaries and things. So I think it's like, it just comes from the family.

I would like to be part of a family, however that looks. Family is really important to me.

We have seen an unprecedented gathering of the leaders of black America coming together to speak with one voice, ... The whole spectrum of black thought was represented on this stage ... . This tells us that a new day is dawning in America.

My mom cautioned me not to become a gossip! I was always up in people's business. People told me stuff... even when I didn't ask and I channeled my story gathering and good sources into a hunger for the news.

A family business in cinema is not necessarily creative. It is generally about prolonging your family fortune.

I think the idea of family and protecting the family is something that ties a lot of these women together.

Sometimes you feel some artists are doing the same thing that you're doing but in a different field. But they have the same approach. Their method of research and gathering data is the same as yours.

I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family.

The family is inclusive of not just your genetic family, but the people that you meet along the way.

The difference between a child's aspiration and that family's situation, is the exact measurement of that family's frustrations.

The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'

When we look at each other, we're the same family. You don't have to see black or Latino - we're one family. That's America.

I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read.

I've always been a family man and count myself as one of those who are lucky to have the comfort of a family.

Guilty as charged. We are very much supportive of the family - the biblical definition of the family unit.

If love and agreement are manifest in a single family, that family will advance, become illumined and spiritual.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

First Family on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.

I've always been a strong family advocate. I had a wonderful family growing up.

It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.

To be in a position to help my family out and change the trajectory of the Wagner family it's a pretty dope feeling.

I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. 'The Gathering' did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.

Gorgeous, glowing rays of light...This was what true beauty and goodness looked like-- a spectral, luminescent gathering of beings so pure it hurt to look directly at them, like the most glorious eclipse, or maybe Heaven itself.

There is a history of mental breakdowns in my family. It will never happen to me but it has happened to others in the family.

For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now it's binding no more. The potency of the media is now stronger than that of the family. The wonder is that families still exist at all, since the forces of modern life mainly all pull people away from a family centered way of life.

My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

If you're in a family unit... and the boys are having a particularly hard time, the impact on the entire family is troublesome.

Everyone in my family has been in music - my cousins, my grandmother, my grandfather - so it's quite a big family tree.

My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

It's critically important to have family around me, and some of my happiest moments are when I'm just with my family.

Trying to fuse a Jewish-Russian family with a Mormon family from Utah definitely is a challenge.

That's what I learned most about directing on my own - you've got to build a family, a filmmaking family.

Meals and eating and that sort of ritual of gathering at a table is such a part of childhood, and that was such a strange moment. It made me nervous to watch my mom cook for us and then not engage in the act of eating with us.

Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.

Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.

I have grown up in a joint family and I'm lucky that even after my marriage, I live in a big family.

Being a coach means giving your job 200% all the time and you're family is left on the side so I don't want to risk my family anymore just because I love football. I don't feel this ambition, I'm involved in many businesses and I want to live my own life, to see my daughters grow and want to see my family happy.

I'm a family man, and I couldn't be happier. My wife and I have been blessed with an incredible family, and my kids are my life.

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.

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.

Most of my family is from Arkansas on my Mom's side, and my Dad's family is from up north in Chicago.

My family means everything to me in the world. So as long as my family is taken care of, I'm a happy guy.

I've always been a strong family advocate. I had a wonderful family growing up

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.