Top 1200 Poor Family Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

I like fat girls. A woman can never be too poor or too fat. I'd take a poor fat girl over a rich thin girl like Kate Moss.

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.

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

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.

It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head.

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

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

Certain family matters should always remain private within the family.

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

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

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.

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

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

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

Sometimes after an enjoyable family home evening, during a fervent family prayer, or when our entire family is at the dinner table on Sunday evening eating waffles and engaging in a session of lively, good-matured conversation, I quietly say to myself, 'If heaven is nothing more than this, it will be good enough for me!'

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.

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

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.

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

If there is any one message the Bible delivers, it is the message that God loves outcasts and that Jesus was born into the world an outcast to rescue and renew outcasts from religion gone bad. He was born poor and died poor, yet the legacy of love he left us, the legacy of inclusion and acceptance and understanding, will endure forever.

Climate change is...a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are least responsible for creating the problem. Despite this, funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even 1 percent of what is needed.

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.

We think we have to prove our allegiance to God by being poor. Many years ago, my own psychic development teacher taught me that to be on a spiritual path meant that you needed to be poor, because that was proving your allegiance to God. So growing up with that kind of teaching from her was a real struggle for me, also.

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.

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

No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always prevails: rich nations will find ways to protect themselves and make themselves comfortable, while the poor nations and the poor people of the planet will suffer.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.

In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.

The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung.

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

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.

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