Top 1200 Raising A Family Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The family is the scene of the most intimate and powerful of human experiences. Family situations are bloodier and more passionate than any others, and the costs are greater.

When I was growing up, we always had a big family dinner at around noon on Sunday. I still love that whenever it is possible to gather the family together.

When I was somewhere between child and adult, my father left us. My first family broke apart, but this liberated me to create a new family as I pleased.

But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three.

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.

'Billy Elliot' prides itself on being a family show, and it made sense to specifically cater to a family audience with an earlier evening curtain time.

The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal.

When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.

The need for civility in society has never been more important. The foundation of kindness and civility begins in our homes. It is not surprising that our public discourse has declined in equal measure with the breakdown of the family. The family is the foundation for love and for maintaining spirituality. The family promotes an atmosphere where religious observance can flourish. There is indeed beauty all around when there's love at home.

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

I'm always drawn toward family drama, and dysfunctional family stories. It speaks to me, in a really profound way, and I think there's so much to explore within it.

I can't imagine my life without my kids. Raising them has been the greatest joy in my life.

My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.

In a family, you take on each other's problems and joys differently, and more intensely. The amplitude - and the undulation of the family - is different from the people you just generally bump into on the street, because you're chained together. And what happens if you break that chain? In almost every family that I know, someone has escaped, set themselves free, tried to run away - whatever what you want to call it. And often, they are made more conspicuous by their absence.

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

The only thing that I can do is know that I have great confidence in raising children and being a great mother.

In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.

We keep a Jewish household and are raising our daughters Jewish.

Fundamental relationships are being called into question, as is the very basis of marriage and the family. I can only reiterate the importance and, above all, the richness and the beauty of family life.

He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.

I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just below middle class, a great family of wonderful values. The idea of me having a chance for a law degree was enticing. Enticing to me but also very enticing to my family.

I was the seventh in the family. By the time I came along, one brother and two sisters had already become teachers, and this was the sort of path carved out for the rest of the family.

Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.

Britain leads the way in fund raising. I am so proud of Britain.

One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.

I always thought my family was so bizarre, so when people started coming up to me and saying, 'My family was exactly like yours,' I was completely knocked out.

I've lived the American dream. I was born and raised on the farm, first in my family to graduate from college. I spent 13 years working in our family business.

The way I'm raising my kids is so different than the way I was raised.

Back then, in 1968, everything was suspect - family, government, and obviously the family unit in 'Night of the Living Dead' completely collapses. That's what we were focused on.

A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.

I play a lot of video games, cook meals for my best friends and chosen family in Seattle, and find time to visit my family in Portland, Oregon.

I am the black sheep of my family. They are all super talented and intelligent and got proper jobs. Most of my family is in medicine, actually. They are all too clever to be doing what I do.

The reality is what Black Lives Matter are raising as an issue is an issue.

The biggest thing in my life - the biggest - is raising dollars to help kids battle cancer.

My parents did a great job of raising me and my brother. Very supportive parents.

Toupée or not toupée for professional government: that is the hair-raising question created by Donald Trump's candidacy.

While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes.

[Raising Hope] is a weird show about weird little humans who love each other.

I'm just gonna focus on raising my girls forever, and that's gonna be it.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

As a kid, you're so at the mercy of the people around you, the people raising you, your environment.

In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that might be one role the poet has.

Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.

I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

I just want to keep challenging myself. Keep moving the goalposts and raising my game.

The more I pay attention, the more I'm in tune with my fans and myself. It's how I keep raising up.

It's no secret that I have, at best, a strained and awkward relationship with my dad. The Wasserman family - my mom, my sister, Lew and Edie - raised me. They are the people I define as my family.

I love raising animals. I look at animals as more perfect human beings. I can relate to an animal.

Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.

After a while, a surprising theme emerged. The single most important thing you can do for your family may be the simplest of all: Develop a strong family narrative.

I think all family businesses are difficult and fraught with problems because you have that family relationship to get over. But my dad has been so supportive, we've managed to work around that.

It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.

Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.

When a film engages a lot of family members, then automatically a sense of nostalgia works for them. That once upon a time they were a part of a joint family.

Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.

I think family businesses are still crucial for India's economy, but they need to professionalize. For young entrepreneurs, too, family should play a significant part.

I'm not the same man I used to be, I'm not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.