Top 1200 Great Family Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

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.

I love hanging out with my kids, my family. That's something you never really anticipate or understand it until you have a family.

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

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

We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami.

I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It's the best $65,000 I've ever spent. My family camp on it and we have great times there.

He only is great at heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs the world with great thoughts. He only is great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career. And he is greatest who does the most of all these things and does them best.

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

My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, to be a good representative of my family is probably my greatest accomplishment thus far.

It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does not lead to knowing. A child's world spreads only a little beyond his understanding while that of a great scientist thrusts outward immeasurably. An answer is invariably the parent of a great family of new questions. So we draw worlds and fit them like tracings against the world about us, and crumple them when we find they do not fit and draw new ones.

I'd really like to have a family at some point. Not that I'm not focused on my career - of course I am... And if a great project comes my way, then of course I'll take it. But I'm not actively out seeking something specific.

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

My great grandmother threw herself in front of a bus. The police tried to say she was committed suicide but the family knew she was just trying to stop civil rights.

My first bat was a Duncan Fearnley 405, size two. I was aged about four. I loved that bat, such great memories. I gave it to a family member and never saw it again.

The pope [Francis] speaks with great passion about the shame we should all feel when, as he puts it, "a man does not have the dignity of earning bread for his family," but is turned into a peripheral person, a welfare client, a dependent.

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.

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

We are not a typical family that goes for a movie on Sunday or has dinner together every night. But we are strong as the Great Wall of China. Nothing can stop us from supporting one another and enduring each other's pain as well.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.

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

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

Through the years you, the Delaware State family and your predecessors, have faced many challenges. You worked through them with fierce determination and good will, and you have made great progress.

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

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

Ronald Reagan was a traditionalist - who purposefully, effectively unleashed innovation and change in himself, in the nation, and in the world. He was a "great communicator" who achieved memorable intimacy with the people everywhere - yet he was often disengaged from his own family.

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.

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.

Standing beside each one of our brave soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines is a loving, supportive, and dedicated family whose sacrifice is a true service to our great nation.

If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like freedom of speech, the most basic right. Freedom from violence, since women worldwide are still like 70% at least of all victims of violence. Equality in the family, democracy in the family, since the family is the microcosm of everything else, so if you have inequality and violence in the family, it normalizes it in the street, for foreign policy, for every place else.

If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.

The increasing remoteness of consanguinity is everyday diminishing the force of the family compact between France and Spain. And politicians have ever with great reason considered the ties of blood as feeble and precarious links of political connection.

I believe the United States should join the rest of the world through paid family and medical leave. It would cost us a $1.61 a week in an increase in payroll tax.I think that`s a great investment.

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

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.

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

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

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.

We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami

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

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.

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

It would certainly would be great to see more films featuring the black family and showing that we are capable of having that unit strong and present and beautiful, because that's so much of who we really are.