Top 1200 Family Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.

I am a permanent legal resident of this country, I was born in Korea; my parents came to America for a better life for our family, I've lived here nearly my whole life, and even though I consider myself through and through Korean and American, I guess when it comes down to it, anyone can take away my identity. It doesn't belong to me.

Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.

Yes, I live a crazy, exciting, whatever life, but I do think it's quite relatable because it has to be - I'm just a girl from St Louis, Missouri that has lived life like anyone else. There are things that are crazy and over the top, but the basic thread is my family, my career, trying to live and pursuing my dreams.

I really love my family and kid, but first of all, it's my hockey, my career. My family is second, and my fans go third. Sometimes my fans go second, and my family is third. It's turning all the time.

My family was dubbed the loud family, but that was mostly because of my mother.

I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness.

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

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

Your family are people you lean on and learn from. When I told my family I wanted to do music, they were really supportive.

Why Family Therapy...because it deals with family pain.

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

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

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

I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

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

There might be the odd person in my family who was an artist down the line, but no one in my immediate family is an actor of any kind.

Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.

I never considered myself as part of a biracial family - we're just a family - but my parents are white, and my brother is Asian.

You have inherited (the) most from yourself, not from your family! The family is only a river through which Soul flows.

I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.

A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.

My family will always remain part of the Kraft family.

When you're a kid, you listen to what your family is listening to. For my family, it was bluegrass.

To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.

We were the only black family in my neighborhood for many years. Wherever we lived, we were often the only black family, and certainly the only Haitian family. But my parents were really great at providing a loving home where we could feel safe and secure.

If Christianity has really come from heaven, it must renew the whole life of man; it must govern the life of nations no less than that of individuals; it must control a Christian when acting in his public and political capacity as completely as when he is engaged in the duties which belong to him as a member of a family circle.

I am blessed to have a family like mine. If you have a good family then nothing else really matters.

God is not calling us to win the world and, in the process, lose our families. But I have known those who so enshrined family life and were so protective of "quality time" that the children never saw in their parents the kind of consuming love that made their parent's faith attractive to them. Some have lost their children, note because they weren't at their soccer games or didn't take family vacations, but because they never transmitted a loyalty to Jesus that went deep enough to interrupt personal preferences.

It's kind of funny...the moments on which life hinges. I think growing up you always imagine your life - your success - depends on your family and how much money they have, where you go to college, what sort of job you can pin down, starting salary...But it doesn't, you know. You wouldn't believe this, but life hinges on a couple of seconds you never see coming. And what you decide in those few seconds determines everything from then on... And you have no idea what you'll do until you're there.

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

Her voice whispering love soothes him. They'd never done that before. Weren't that type of family. Except now he doesn't know what kind of family they are. What word is it that can define them? What would they call his family in the textbooks? Broken? He comes from a broken home. The Mackees can't be put back together again. There are too many pieces of them missing.

No one in my family plays music. But since I was very little, I would go around the house singing and dancing. And when I was 8, my parents asked me to get up and sing something at a family meal. I had my eyes closed, singing - la la la la la - and when I opened them, the whole family was crying.

I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business.

A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole.

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'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.

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

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

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

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

I'm a family man. I just love being around my family.

The most important family value of all is time with your family.

That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family.

How can someone live with their own conscience when you reward a domestic terrorist with continued safety and betray the family of fallen police officer waiting for decades for justice for his murder? So let's ask the question. Hillary Clinton as a coddler of the brutal Castro brothers and betrayer of the family of fallen state trooper Werner Foerster and his family.

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

... finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized.

The struggle is how to write optimistically when the world we're living in is not inherently optimistic. I love the idea of the family from the most Norman Rockwell version to Norman Bates. Without family, we have very little - it is the most basic social structure. So yes I suppose I wanted to write a hopeful book about the evolution of the family.

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

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

People are drawn to watching things that are dramatic. And the tighter a relationship is, the more dramatic it can be. That's something family lends itself to. Everybody has family, somewhere, somehow. Those relationships are always very complex. This takes it to almost Greek-tragedy-level heights. That's fun to watch, although it's very uncomfortable. It explores the darkest sense of family.

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

Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.

If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.

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

Most of my life is over. I am going to enjoy my family and friends before any of us depart this earth. I'll never start another company. I'll never work long hours again. At this point in my life, I only answer to God, my wife, and my kids. Everything else is secondary - especially the expectations of strangers.

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