Top 1200 Our Family Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family.

I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.

Learning to be extremely disciplined has been the key for me. I work really hard during work hours and family really hard during family hours. Family does always come first though, in any situation.

I come from a big family of brothers and sisters and family dramas and honor and dishonor.

No one in my family is musical, including extended family. I am like the black sheep.

In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he'd built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti covered the half-torn walls. There was no ceiling and surprisingly no floor: the parquet, the stone, the marble, all looted.

I think personal and family matters should be kept limited within the family.

The word dysfunction has, I think, served its purpose and now has lost its meaning. Every family, like every person, is imperfect, after all. The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions, is an odd concept. In my youth I was running from my family to try to find out who I was-their influence distracted me. Now I see what a powerful hold they have, no matter what.

It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.

Certain family matters should always remain private within the family.

Just because you have a chosen family doesn't mean that your family threw you out.

I was born into a Turkish family that had acquired Italian citizenship. Many members of the family subsequently became British, French, Brazilian, and German, so there was a bit of everything. It was not uncommon for people in the family to speak seven languages: English, French, Ladino, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, and even Greek.

I didn't know anyone in my family who acted; no one in my immediate family did any acting.

I'm incredibly close to my family and I think family is such an important thing, in Asian culture especially.

I know the Trump family personally, his kids and grandkids, and they're a fantastic family.

God is not calling us to win the world and, in the process, lose our families. But I have known those who so enshrined family life and were so protective of "quality time" that the children never saw in their parents the kind of consuming love that made their parent's faith attractive to them. Some have lost their children, note because they weren't at their soccer games or didn't take family vacations, but because they never transmitted a loyalty to Jesus that went deep enough to interrupt personal preferences.

The Skakel family, when they married into the Kennedys, was so wealthy, they could have purchased the Kennedy family.

You're either Mormon or Southern Baptist in my family. They're incredibly conservative and I love my family.

The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society

I'm grateful to see my work flourish in my lifetime. Many of the great people in our history were not able to see how much their work, suffering and sacrifices enriched our lives and pushed our struggle forward. But I've been blessed to see my work begin in a family home, spread around the world and be embraced by millions of African people throughout the world African community.

I always admired the tolerance of my family - you know, that they tolerated my dissension for the family consensus.

I want to have a family. Fighting and having a family at the same time is difficult.

The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family.

I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.

I come personally from a broken family, divorced very early in my childhood, a family with its own share of troubles, so I think that was very influential in both me believing that someday I would consistently devote myself to my own family that I created, but I think it also really affects my view of the world.

[On Jung's theory of psychological types:] My mother, Katharine C. Briggs, introduced it into our family and made it a part of our lives. She and I waited a long time for someone to devise an instrument that would reflect not only one's preference for extraversion or introversion but one's preferred kind of perception and judgment as well. In the summer of 1942 we undertook to do it ourselves.

Every family is a "normal" family- no matter whether it has one parent, two, or no children at all.

I came to the realization that I had failed in some respects because I had been more of a benevolent narrator than the world I saw reflected around me, and in the lives of the people in my community, and in my family. There was no benevolent God sparing us pain and loss and grief and struggle. If I was going to continue to write about the place where I am from, and the kind of people who live in my community and who are in my family, I owed it to them to be honest with what our lives are like.

We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.

My family - it wasn't an abusive family - they meant well, but they were in their own world.

I don't discuss my family with the press; I discuss my family with my family. If you notice, when you hear something sensational in the press about me, I don't respond to it publicly, because a lot of things are put out there simply for the attention. Things that are meaningful, you don't need to talk about.

My success, I think it is due to the Mizanan family. Everyone in my family is a hard worker.

The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.

You have to find a balance between work and family. And I have help. I have an amazing family who chip in.

As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family.

I'm a family man. I always depend on my family when I am in dire need.

My family's a very musical family, so music's always been a part of my life.

Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.

I've been in and out of hospitals a lot in terms of family or extended family or myself.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges from a hostile spoken word to worldwide conflicts. The scriptures tell us that "Only by pride cometh contention".

The money I try and earn is for my family. It's not for me. It's always about my family.

I grew up in a family that felt indifferent towards the royal family.

We all act differently in certain places. We don't want to admit it, but we're different where we grew up than we are with our family and than we are with the guys that we went to college with or our fraternity brothers. People just exist differently. It's small, subtle things, but different colors come out. That's all there is to it.

... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family members, as community members, and as citizens. We have an 'environmental crisis' because we have consented to an economy in which by eating, drinking, working, resting, traveling, and enjoying ourselves we are destroying the natural, god-given world.

For Mum and Dad... work and home is family, so work is family and home is family. We grew up with that.

Yes. Because every family needs a laser for thier family jet.

Serbian history tells that family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.

My photo has nothing to do with the person I am, the dreams I have, the family I want to build, the family I'm from.

You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.

Family is what matters. The health of my children is No.1. The relationship with my family, my wife, my faith - all of it is easily No. 1.

I am a family person; we are a big family, and I need my friends around me.

My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.

If you are a part of a family, that family does not treat you badly when you are down, it supports you to revive.

The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family... but as the head of the family.

How precious is the family as the privileged place for transmitting the faith! Speaking about family life, I would like to say one thing: today, as Brazil and the Church around the world celebrate this feast of Saints Joachim and Anne, Grandparents Day is also being celebrated. How important grandparents are for family life, for passing on the human and religious heritage which is so essential for each and every society! How important it is to have intergenerational exchanges and dialogues, especially within the context of the family.

Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I've met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.

In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family.

The best TV is always about family, whether it's 'All in the Family,' or 'The Sopranos' or 'The Flintstones.'

I love spending time with my dog, my niece and my family. I'm very family-oriented.