Top 1200 Raising A Family Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

I want people raising my kid that see along the same lines of values and issues as I do.

I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.

My first heartbreak devastated me, but it was the support of my family and my second family, my church family, that helped me understand that it wasn't my fault, and that everything was going to be alright. That helped me tremendously later in life because in this acting business, there are a lot of things beyond your control.

Take assertiveness training, get paid what you're worth, join a consciousness raising-group.

My advice for raising daughters is to spend time with them doing things you both enjoy.

My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

We have a big heart for Africa and also for just raising awareness about the water crisis.

Family is so central to Afghan life that all Afghan stories are family stories. Family is something I simply can't resist because all the great themes of human life - duty, grief, sacrifice, love, envy - you find all those things within families.

Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.

I think it is a great idea for people to look at the reality of raising children at a young age.

Voters should be assured that I absolutely do not support raising the retirement age for Social Security.

I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society — with the cosmos. To link me with my family to the cosmos, that is easy, because all literature has some mystic tendency. So when we write about our family, we can link ourselves to the cosmos.

The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

What I have proposed would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy, because they have made all the gains in the economy.

I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my colors to theirs.

And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on.

There have been a lot of times in my life where I came out to a perfect stranger by some chance encounter. It's way easier than coming out to your family. I started high school 'out,' then I had to tell my family. I had to introduce myself to the family.

You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

It is within the family that children learn the values that will guide them for the rest of their lives. It is within the family that they form their earliest relationships, learn to communicate with others and interact with the world around them. It is within the family that the notion of human rights becomes a reality lived on a daily basis. If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.

All my family, my blood, is mixed up now. They don't even all know each other. I just hope they don't never hate or fight each other, not knowin who they are. Cause all these people livin are brothers and sisters and cousins. All these beautiful different colors! We!... We the human Family. God says so! FAMILY!

It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family.

Pops always taught us that family is the strongest unit in the world. If you stick with your family, nobody can break you, nobody can harm you. You'll always have your family.

If there were things I felt the White House needed to be doing differently, I'd probably call them. I have a saying, and I had this in Michigan as chair, which is, 'We're a family.' When you have a difference of opinion in your family, you don't go on 'Jerry Springer'; you pick up the phone, and you call your family member.

Raising three girls, I think it's important to teach them to support other women.

Be certain that you easily clear the minimum standards for service as a missionary and that you are continually raising the bar.

The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle.

I love 'Braxton Family Values!' I love seeing a strong family unit striving for success while dealing with everyday struggles like everyone else. Whatever drama they find themselves in, they find a way to solve it and get back to the importance of family. A positive show for sure.

Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.

We can all admit this - women do it better when it comes to planning and shot calling, running households, raising kids.

I get so much out of being married and raising my kids - that's really important to me.

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

I'm a believer in the Constitution and in the First Amendment. Not just for raising money but also for freedom of speech.

I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.

There are so many common occurrences in raising children that people just can't seem to figure out.

Donald Trump would end up raising taxes on middle-class families.

Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks.

Pure Flix makes evangelistic films, but we also make family films. I think the viewer wants to see quality entertainment that the whole family can watch, and many nonbelievers watch our films because they can watch with their family and young kids.

The real wealth of a good gardener is not his salary but the marvellous flowers he is raising in the garden!

There are two keys to productive missionary work -- (1) family-to-family friendshipping (when a member family shares the gospel with a nonmember family) and (2) cooperation between members and the missionaries to reach people...Every member knows of nonmembers he or she can refer to the missionaries. Every father, mother, and youth in this church should share the gospel by giving a Book of Mormon, telling the account of the Prophet Joseph Smith, or inviting our acquaintances to a special meeting.

The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, kibbutz, or classroom, it seems to individualize and socialize its children, to make us feel at the same time unique and yet joined to all humanity, accepted as is and yet challenged to grow, loved unconditionally and yet propelled by greater expectations. Only in the family can so many extremes be reconciled and synthesized. Only in the family do we have a lifetime in which to do it.

I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break.

It's so thrilling. And not just the music. The Internet is changing the future of fund-raising. I'm thrilled by the potential.

We don't see a choice between securing growth and investment and raising human rights issues.

I'm from California, I know what's up with this. You keep raising people's taxes eventually they are going to say no.

I haven't really thought about family in my work. I simply play with people I meet. They mostly become friends. There is something like a great community of people around me, but this does only exist in my mind. All these people are my family, they are not a family. They mostly don't know each other.

I admire identity politics for raising the fact that there are terrible and constant microaggressions against all minorities.

It's all about raising more money. And they have to keep this alive, so Hillary [Clinton] got cheated.

Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn.

When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?'

Mum was a disciplinarian. Raising a child on your own forces you to have to keep the boundaries tight.

Running a ball club is like raising kids who fall out of trees.

I'm thankful to God for having a family that's been there for me. He's been there from the time I was a child to even now with my family helping with my little boy. It's worth more than words could ever describe. That's one of the ways I've been able to stay grounded is thanks to family and God.

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

By raising bread-and-butter issues, we remind the Government of the things that it may forget or ignore.

Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down