Top 1200 Family Violence Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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

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.

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

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.

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

Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.

...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure.

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

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

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.

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

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.

As a Mark brand ambassador, I became extremely cognizant of the devastating statistics about dating abuse and partner violence via the mPowerment campaign and knew I wanted to help change those statistics. mPowerment by Mark and the Avon Foundation for Women funded the No More study, which explored dating abuse, partner violence, and sexual assault. I was honored to be part of it and report the results of the survey in a Capitol Hill briefing.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

What I like about Layer Cake is its intelligent through-line. First of all, I think it's very close to the truth; I think this is what successful drug dealers are like. They don't drive around in flashy cars, they don't show off, they behave very quietly, they get on with their job and they earn lots of money. And it goes up and up and up and up the scale. Secondly - and selfishly - I like the moral aspect of the movie, which is that violence has consequences, and you feel emotionally involved with the violence.

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.

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.

At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry’s language, entering Henry’s world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness.

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

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

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

I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press.

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

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

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.

My family didn't come from fame. No one was musical in my family except for me.

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.

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.

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

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.