Top 1200 Normal Family Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I was looked upon as this privileged actress who was like Yash Chopra's family. He was my second family. Whatever I have achieved is because of him.

It is a tribute to Indian democracy that a person from a poor family, an ordinary family, is today addressing the nation from the Red Fort.

Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.

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

At some point, I want to create a family and help them on their journey like my family helped me on mine.

Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.

I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.

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

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.

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.

We inherit the family we're born into and create the family we need.

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.

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.

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.

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

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

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

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

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

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

I won the family lottery. I come from the best family in the world.

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.

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.

The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do.

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 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 have always felt it was my duty to protect my family. After Imran became family, I defended him in every way.

Louisiana is a special place in my family's history, and we are committed as a family to never forget the city and the people of Baton Rouge.

A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.

I want a family. I see my sister, and she's on her second baby, and I'm like, 'That's success.' Having a family - I can't wait for that.

But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.

I'm a triple citizen of the United States, in Switzerland and Tunisia. And actually beyond just my immediate family, all of my family is abroad.

I don't believe you have to be blood to be family, so I have a lot of family members.

Family is the most important thing in the world. If everything ended tomorrow and my family was still there, I'd be the happiest man alive.

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

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

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

Fear is a normal human emotion. It is not in itself a killer. We can learn to be aware when fear grips us, and can train to operate through and in spite of our fear. If, on the other hand, we don't understand that fear is normal and has to be controlled and overcome, it will paralyze us and stop us in our tracks. We will no longer think clearly or analyze rationally. We prepare for it and control it; we never let it control us. It if does, we cannot lead.

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy.

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.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

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

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.

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.

Now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire family, as well as myself, my woman, and my team that I consider family.

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

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

May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness.

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 always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.