Top 999 Family Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

I do everything for my family.

I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they were taken so soon. I loved and miss Johnny Cash. I miss my old buddy Johnny Paycheck, who happens to be buried in an area of the cemetery that I bought for my family.

It's really a testament to my parents, because I was active, curious and creative as a child, and my parents nurtured that. But I wouldn't say that I was a professional child actor at all. I was never the breadwinner of my family.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.

I was born in Iran, my parents are Armenian. We fled from Iran to the Netherlands when I was eight years old. We had a lot of family and friends in Iran, so it was hard to leave, especially for my parents. But we managed to settle well in the Netherlands, after a year in refugee camps. But I understood it was a process.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

My family is the most beautiful thing in my life beyond anything else, even music.

Hawaii is a beautiful place to bring up a family.

Family always gonna be there. The material things, they come and go.

Our family makes us who we are, defines us totally. When you go to a therapist or have analysis, whatever reason you go in for, they will always bring you back to your family. We're strong or weak according to what family we have. You might have left them long ago, might not even talk to them, but something lingers; we have no choice.

I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.

We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence that cheapens human life, skyrocketing prisoner recidivism rates that rob our communities of husbands and fathers - and recognize that there is a societal role in rehabilitation and restoration.

The traditional family has an intrinsic as well as an instrumental value, and that is the real reason so many conservatives defend it.

I went to Cyprus with a friend and her family when we were about 16. She was riding on the back of a scooter we'd hired when we got surrounded by local boys on their scooters down a dark country lane. They tried to get us to pull over.

I grew up with an incredibly loving and supportive family that gave me the impression there were a lot of options for me out there.

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they're driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you.

Do not leave yourself or your family unprotected against financial storms... Build up savings.

I definitely have a strong sense of my Jewish and Israeli identity. I did my two-year military service; I was brought up in a very Jewish, Israeli family environment, so of course my heritage is very important to me.

I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.

What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out.

For me, cleidocranial dysplasia was something that just spontaneously happened. Nobody in my family has it. It doesn't really hinder me at all. Obviously, I'm still able to do the things I love.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.

You can't choose your family, but you can choose your friends.

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

Don't worry about the pressure or the responsibility. Just live in it, have fun, and when everything seems to be going right, just stay humble and remember your family.

The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.

There is a standard joke in the family. Probably we should go into selling second-hand shoes.

I started from zero. Nobody in my family is connected to the industry. Not a single contact in the music industry or in the entertainment industry.

I will fight to the last breath, even though my family cowers in terror in the palace.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!

Baking is one of my many hobbies. I was originally introduced to baking as a child by my grandmother. I continued to bake for friends and family throughout the years for special occasions. I began to create themed treats after receiving continued requests from a lot of my friends.

We lean on each other when we are going through hard days. We are a family.

God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

I did a Coca-Cola commercial when I was about two and a half years old, and then me and my family were extras in a bunch of Westerns. I loved dressing up and stepping into this imaginary world, and it was fun to get outside of my tiny little town with a bunch of movie weirdos.

Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power - at least earthly power, at least earthly power.

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world.

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

My family was my guide to my reality.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

I am a total loser, in every aspect of my life. I rarely go out. I have a great family and we spend all our time together. I work hard and play hard with them.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

When you're a man, you want to make decisions for your family, and sometimes the lady doesn't see what you see.

My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

I've got a really good family; I've got great friends around me.