Top 1200 Small Family Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

I live at the bottom of a valley. I have a small bookshop in a small town, and I seldom venture far afield.

When they were small and my wife really had no other responsibilities, except taking care of the family and all of us, it wasn't that big a deal. It was fun. Hey, we're going to Moscow. We're going to Italy. We're going to Toronto. We're going to New York.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

We as gay people get to choose our family and the people we're around. I am your family. We are a family here.

I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.

We have this huge discourse on family in this country, but no one deconstructs it the same way. People talk about "the American family." The right wing has this thing - Focus on the Family. What the hell is that? I don't want to just discuss the issues - I want family to be a real part of the character of the novels I write, and I don't like to write things that feel like issue books.

The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person.

If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.

Why worry about these small, small things? I don't stress. You never hear of anyone dying of happiness.

Marco Rubio hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands. I've never heard of this. What - look at those hands. Are they small hands? And he referred to my hands - if they're small, something else must be small. I guarantee you, there's no problem. I guarantee you.

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

I am a small man who wants to do big things for small people.

The world is filled with successful small businesses that stay small.

My great strength, which I very much believe in, is family. For me, family doesn't simply mean components of DNA. I mean family in the sense of siblings. My mom and my sisters are the energy and inspiration in my life.

What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things

Small nations have no time for small goals - they have to think big in order to become contributors.

Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.

My maternal family are South African and when I was small and my parents separated my mother and I went back to South Africa. So for me the emergence of my own childhood consciousness was in the context of 1970s and 1980s apartheid South Africa and the movement there.

When I speak on work-family issues to audiences around the country, some of the biggest complaints I hear come from individuals who are described by the census as living in 'non-family households.' They resent the fact that their family responsibilities literally don't 'count,' either for society or for their employers.

The dwarves of course are quite obviously, couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic. Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects (in general) the small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.

Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

I will never put anybody before my family because your family is your family.

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

There are none so low but they have their triumphs. Small successes suffice for small souls.

We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves.

Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.

It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.

I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.

How I started my musical career, officially, was really, like, my family and I deciding to put out, you know, the 'Closer' album that started really small, you know, with a vision that we'd make it pass there.

There is power in creating a small model, and then you can create an alliance of other small models.

It is hard if you have got family and kids and you have to leave them on Christmas Day to go and train but listen, we are a small minority of lucky players. We have obviously worked hard for this, but we are lucky enough to have the ability to play in the Premier League.

I love family films. Of course, as a mother who has to watch so many movies, you really appreciate it when somebody makes a film that is for everybody - family entertainment that's really for the family, where everyone has a good time.

I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.

I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.

Any work I do I think is important...like in acting there are no small parts- only small actors.

The presumption that the law can tell us what natural institution is supposed to be is a formula for totalitarianism. There's not equality in a family; there never is. And yet for that reason, the family is condemned as patriarchal. The goal of this sort of legislation is about the destruction of the traditional family, not just marriage.

The planet belongs to all being; all beings are responsible. We all have to do whatever we can do no matter how small it is; nothing is too small.

Never let your small business make you small-minded.

On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.

Love is love. Family is family. A family's sexuality does not define the wonderful parent that they can be for their children.

Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the good silver and china for special occasions or for impressing guests, but are offered daily for the pleasure and happiness of the family group.

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.

That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves

Family can replace everything. So, before starting a family, one should think what's more important: family or everything.

I came from a very musical family, so I grew up singing karaoke with the family. My family said 'do this' and brought me to singing lessons. I had always been writing poems and songs.

For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.

We need to repeal Dodd-Frank act. It is eviscerating small businesses and small banks.

The worst thing a man can admit is 'I'm not 100 percent fulfilled by my family.' But it doesn't mean he doesn't love his family. I love my family, but I still want to work; I still want challenges. It took me a while to fall in love with the responsibility of family life, and it was a deep thing when I did.

Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.

Just small things are going to hopefully lead to a bigger surplus in the end. Obviously, you might not see it every single game, every single detail, but those small things and those small details add up so much, and that's what creates winning.

In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it impossible for small-time rice farmers to feed their families and make a living, it is a natural thing for anyone in the family who can find an alternative source of income to do so.

I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock of small dark birds.

I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.

If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,They must in quantity of Matter all agree

In its effect on family relationships, in its facilitation of parental withdrawal from an active role in the socialization of their children, and in its replacement of family rituals and special events, television has played an important role in the disintegration of the American family.

I started on the stage with my mom in Denmark doing political revues in a small, small town.

An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.