Top 999 Family Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends - they will never go out of fashion.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

Working 24 hours a day isn't enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be successful, including your personal life, your family life, maybe more. If people think it's any less, they're wrong, and they will fail.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

I've got a great team around me with my family, manager and label, and we've all worked hard together to make things happen.

I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I haven't come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I'm not sure it would be that way for me.

I'd like to get back to my family and friends - believe it or not, I do have some real friends.

When the Beatles came to America and took me off the map, I thought I would return the favor, and I moved the family to England!

I am an ordinary woman from a Tamil family.

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

My family are everything to me. They come first in everything I do.

I absolutely love spending time with my family.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

My grandmother. She's someone I never met, and I would've loved to have met her. She's been a huge influence on our entire family, not just me. She is a mystery. It's not clear exactly what about her is truth and myth.

I'm not a big chicken or meat eater, but sometimes I'll eat it if it's locally raised. The family dinner will be stir-fry, or we'll roll our own sushi with brown rice, spinach, salmon, sesame oil, sesame seeds, and seaweed. The kids love it!

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

The suburbs are the American dream, right? Living in a nice house, having a good job, a happy family.

I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname; it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands.

I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously.

I think college football is a reflection of Middle America. You go into a college football town, and you will find three generations of a family sitting together. It's a rallying point for the university, the community, and the families.

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

So many of us have friends or family who have battled cancer, and we know how important it is to find a cure.

Having to deal with, like, family problems in front of the world is very difficult.

I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don't hunt. We're not gun folk.

I love just being in Canberra and being with my family, being with my friends.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

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

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

My first day in the police was July 16, 1972. I was the only woman in the IPS. I remember getting a lot of questions. Are you sure you want to do this? Have you thought about your family? Why did you choose to be here? There was a lot of amazement and doubt.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don't care what your job is, you're not gonna talk down to me, you're not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I'm a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

I don't have a ton of friends, but the friends I have are great ones. I don't have huge family, but the family I have is a great one.

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

I overloaded myself with work. I give myself work to do so I don't give myself time to chill and have free time to chill with the family as much.

My kids give me the balance to live right.

Social class has worked for years. Born into the right family, go to the right schools, even if you're not super bright to start with, you'll turn out bright. You go to the right university, you get the right job, you have the right connections, you'll make it to the top. Job done, very efficient.

My father once said, 'If you're in the desert and you're dying of thirst, are you going to drink a glass of blood or are you going to drink a glass of water?' I think what he was trying to say, interesting coming from my blood father, is sometimes there are people in your family that can be toxic.

I spent my summers bottling peaches and my winters rotating supplies. When the World of Men failed, my family would continue on, unaffected.

The night before my mastectomy, I had done my best to keep my mind off of the impending procedure. My family and I went to the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey game, where I binged on pizza and ice cream and took full advantage of the doctor's advice to eat up the night before since I had to begin fasting at midnight.

In a lot of my films, the biggest theme is family, making families out of those around you.

Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

All I can say is Mike Lee is an embarrassment to the state of Utah. He's been a tremendous embarrassment to our family, to our state, to our country to have him as a U.S. senator.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.

I come from a middle-class family in Gwalior.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

My father is Nigerian; my mother is from Texas and African-American. My father was the first in his family to go to university. He flew from Nigeria to Los Angeles in the '70s to go to UCLA, where he met my mother. They broke up before I was born, and he returned to Nigeria.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.

The hardest thing for me was leaving my friends and family behind.

I'm doing less than I used to because I'm a family man now, and I have two kids.

My parents have left a legacy in our family of service to others.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

It sucks being judged by the world instead of your close friends or family. I try to just realise that the only people who matter are my family and friends.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.