Top 1200 Our Family Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

A good life depends on the strength of our relationships with family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and strangers.

Our whole family has a similar sense of humor. We get over things by laughing at ourselves.

I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.

We had our family tree done... turns out I'm a quarter gay on my father's side.

If anything, I'd say my family was entrepreneurial - my grandfather and father. It was in our blood. But I didn't have this one mentor that was super successful.

Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio - empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how - has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home - within the family, so to speak - our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.

The only really expensive thing in our family budget, frankly, is private air travel.

When my father began playing for Led Zeppelin our family was living in a 14-foot trailer.

It's a tradition in our family that the girls all be given crazy names, usually picked out of Gothic novels.

My dad was a commander in the U.S. Navy with three daughters - you can imagine the tight ship that was our family household!

I've been blessed with a platform and a voice, and I owe it to myself and my family and our people to use it responsibly.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

Music is a big thing in our family. I also have a feeling and an ear for it. It's something we share in common.

We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.

For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

We were always a middle-class family who took pride in our little set-up.

When my mom passed, it hit us hard. She was the glue that held our family together.

I always believe holidays strengthen the family bond, away from our daily hectic schedules.

Writers really do that. We weep over our characters. We are saddened sometimes for days when we say goodbye to a world or a character. They do become our best friends. I've probably spent more time with them over the past 22, 24 years than I have spent with most of the real members of my family.

I really believe in the power of the individual to make change, and our family is a real collection of individuals.

I have a tremendous staff around me. It's a really good family vibe in terms of our environment.

We do not raise our children alone.... Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which they come in contact. Yet parents today expect to be blamed for whatever results occur with their children, and they expect to do their parenting alone.

Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

We wanted a world that looked like our world. In the original 'Flintstones,' low flat buildings filled the city and suburbs. Now, high-rise buildings and apartments exist next to the family neighborhoods. Part of the 'Flintstone' fun remains its parallel of our world.

We [in my family] don't like to mess around and talk about our problems or complain, it's just not anything that we do.

Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives.

My jobs often end up being our family vacations, and so far it has been great.

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.

Our family tradition is to make a trip up to Acadia and do some hiking and enjoy the outdoors there.

Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.

It is sometimes difficult to comprehend that I am the only member of our original family still living.

It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

My sister has decided to become an actress too. It has ruined the close-knittedness of our family life.

I was the fifth child in a family of six, five boys and one girl. Bless that poor girl. We were very poor; it was the 30s. We survived off of the food and the little work that my father could get working on the roads or whatever the WPA provided. We were always in line to get food. The survival of our family really depended on the survival of the other black families in that community. We had that village aspect about us, that African sense about us. We always shared what we had with each other. We were able to make it because there was really a total family, a village.

When we have our family dinners and going out to dinner or whatever, we have a carful. We have a full bunch, that's for sure!

When I was growing up, we didn't have much money. What was important in my house was to have food on the table, be happy, and have our family.

Our family and friends keep us grounded and they are the reason we can all feel like normal people.

When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.

Charity is not a virtue to expect in others only. It is the all-important Christian attribute to be found in ourselves. . . . We believe that charity must begin at home. Can we hope to be charitable to the stranger if love does not abound in the family? A sure step in the direction of improvement and progress in our own lives comes when we share with mother or father in their dependence as they shared with us in their productive years.... We cannot as children ignore our obligations to our parents by passing responsibility for their care to others. . . .

We hear a lot in this country about family, and 'American Family' just shows us a portrait we haven't seen as much of yet. 'American Family' lets us know that being American isn't about the color of your hair or eyes or skin: it's really a state of mind.

As I travel through my country, people often ask me how it feels to have been imprisoned in my home -first for six years, then for 19 months. How could I stand the separation from family and friends? It is ironic, I say, that in an authoritarian state it is only the prisoner of conscience who is genuinely free. Yes, we have given up our right to a normal life. But we have stayed true to that most precious part of our humanity-our conscience.

Love. How do we define this word? We love our family. We love food. We love the weather. We love our shoes. Love that music. Love someone's work. Love a movie. Love a celebrity. Love that time in life. Love love love!

We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.

My father was a textbook narcissist. If he didn't like the narrative he'd start gaslighting you. He threatened the democracy of our family.

Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England.

Irrespective of which part of the world you live, family is special, and we'd do anything to protect our loved ones.

I met Forest Whitaker on 'Our Family Wedding' and we struck up a real bond and friendship.

I like having family and friends around me. Our house is always overflowing with guests.

By a considerable margin, my family's largest-ever financial expenditure was the adoption of our two sons.

The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.

Sting and I have six kids between us. A lot of members of our family have ADHD and dyslexia.

Rappers are the white authors of our generation. They know me, my language, my codes, my family, my block.

So often, our sporting allegiances are shaped by family tradition, passed down like heirlooms.

Between 2007 and 2010, the average white family experienced an 11% reduction in wealth, but the average black family lost 31% of its wealth. The average Hispanic family lost 44.7%.

I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.

My mum still wonders when I'll get a real job. These are the questions we discuss at our family dinners.

Our family has always drawn on the power from above to comfort us in times of despair and stress.

I don't believe in perfection, but those acrimony-free gaps during our family holidays can be downright blissful.