Top 1200 Poor Family Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.

No one in my family plays music. But since I was very little, I would go around the house singing and dancing. And when I was 8, my parents asked me to get up and sing something at a family meal. I had my eyes closed, singing - la la la la la - and when I opened them, the whole family was crying.

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

People are drawn to watching things that are dramatic. And the tighter a relationship is, the more dramatic it can be. That's something family lends itself to. Everybody has family, somewhere, somehow. Those relationships are always very complex. This takes it to almost Greek-tragedy-level heights. That's fun to watch, although it's very uncomfortable. It explores the darkest sense of family.

Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, theblacks who became a "credit to their race," the women elected to high office, the handicapped who made "useful contributions" to our society.... Just as we believe in the self-sufficient family, we also believe that any child with enough grit and ability can escape poverty and make a rewarding life. But these stories and beliefs clearly reflect the exceptions.

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

I am Catholic but I want to say something to the Catholics. Thank you for some of the bishops who live in rural areas, and are still Catholic. These bishops of the Catholic churches still pray for the poor, and pray for their president who works for the poor, while the leaders of the Catholic Church only defend oligarchy.

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

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.

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

Sam, clinging to Frodo's arm, collapsed on a step in the black darkness. 'Poor old Bill!' he said in a choking voice. 'Poor old Bill! Wolves and snakes! But the snakes were too much for him. I had to choose, Mr. Frodo. I had to come with you.

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

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

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.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help 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.

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

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.

A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.

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

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.

Well... I still can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. These politicians are such sleazebags that you just don't know. You can't really get anything from a lot of them once they get into power. They totally forget about all their commitments. The poor people elect them, and they forget about all the poor people.

Nowadays, we are confronted by a huge gap between rich and poor. This is not only morally wrong, but practically a mistake. It leads to the rich living in anxiety and the poor living in frustration, which has the potential to lead to more violence. We have to work to reduce this gap. It's truly unfair that some people should have so much while others go hungry.

I really love my family and kid, but first of all, it's my hockey, my career. My family is second, and my fans go third. Sometimes my fans go second, and my family is third. It's turning all the time.

The struggle is how to write optimistically when the world we're living in is not inherently optimistic. I love the idea of the family from the most Norman Rockwell version to Norman Bates. Without family, we have very little - it is the most basic social structure. So yes I suppose I wanted to write a hopeful book about the evolution of the family.

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

If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.

Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

You just have to be very humble if America has really worked for you like it has for me. Most of my friends are poor. Most of my siblings are poor. I see how hard it is just to get money unless you've got some incredible luck or work incredibly hard. I want everyone to do well. I wish 'Wayne's World' money on you!

Her voice whispering love soothes him. They'd never done that before. Weren't that type of family. Except now he doesn't know what kind of family they are. What word is it that can define them? What would they call his family in the textbooks? Broken? He comes from a broken home. The Mackees can't be put back together again. There are too many pieces of them missing.

Virtually every subject is most effectively learned directly from the greatest thinkers, historians, artists, philosophers, scientists, prophets and their original works. Great works inspire greatness. Mediocre or poor works inspire mediocre or poor learning. The great accomplishments of humanity are the key to quality education.

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.

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

Strictly enforce the scale of "fixed responsibility." The first and foremost level of responsibility is with the individual himself; the second level is the family; then the church; next the community, finally the county, and, in a disaster or emergency, the state. Under no circumstances is the federal government to become involved in public welfare. The Founders felt it would corrupt the government and also the poor. No Constitutional authority exists for the federal government to participate in charity or welfare.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The only difference between a rich man and a poor man, is that the poor man suffers uncomfortably, while the rich man suffers comfortably.

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

We were the only black family in my neighborhood for many years. Wherever we lived, we were often the only black family, and certainly the only Haitian family. But my parents were really great at providing a loving home where we could feel safe and secure.

My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life. My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished. If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricity—it would be style...being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.

In England, more than in any comparable country, those who are born poor are more likely to stay poor, and those who inherit privilege are more likely to pass on privilege. For those of us who believe in social justice, this stratification and segregation are morally indefensible.

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

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.

Rich people are excellent receivers. Poor people are poor receivers.

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

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

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

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

Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

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

How can someone live with their own conscience when you reward a domestic terrorist with continued safety and betray the family of fallen police officer waiting for decades for justice for his murder? So let's ask the question. Hillary Clinton as a coddler of the brutal Castro brothers and betrayer of the family of fallen state trooper Werner Foerster and his family.

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