Top 1200 Supportive Family Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

I watched the video [ with my first commercial] when I was 20, and in the video, there are two families. The first family is this smiling blond Partridge family, a Californian/Aryan kind of thing, all playing guitars, all singing together and harmonizing. And then, there's my family - and in my family, it starts with my mom saying that she feels like a drill sergeant sometimes, and she's yelling at one of my brothers to stop hitting another one of my brothers. It's just like, "Great, we're that family." It felt a little Simpsons versus Flanders.

I love my parents and we have a terrific relationship. They have been very supportive of my career choice.

Always be your true self, and surround yourself with positive and supportive people.

The people I worked with were supportive, and I'm flattered that you would call what I did 'acting.'

I love 'Project Runway' because I can really be of help to an industry and I can be supportive to designers.

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 very blessed that I have such a supportive wife who is secure with letting me embarrass myself.

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.

Not everybody even gets to live with their own family because they have to go to L.A. or New York or wherever to work and find a job and leave their family back home. But every day, I get to work with my family - if I want to.

At the moment I have my family coming out with me on the road. We have our own vehicle and it's more like a family vacation. I just stop, do some gigs, and take off. It's a lot more fun now with the family.

This Sonia Gandhi thing should be seen in perspective - the people of India have an emotional attachment to the family. And why not? Three of the five Congress prime ministers belong to that family. The people empathise with the family name.

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.

I think my husband and dad were both very happy that I had a baby boy, to get some testosterone in the family, because there are a lot of girls. It's not a perfect family, but it's a strong family. The nice thing is how the different ages interact.

Sometimes you'll have a heckler who's actually attempting to be supportive, but you don't realize it. Their way of expressing it is kind of confusing.

At the moment I have my family coming out with me on the road. We have our own vehicle and its more like a family vacation. I just stop, do some gigs, and take off. Its a lot more fun now with the family.

The British actors I've met and worked with have all been very supportive of each other.

My family is mostly a chosen one. I've managed to invite some really amazing people into my life and they become family. Brothers, sisters, siblings, mentors, role models. And I like to live that way, where your family bleeds out into the larger community.

People are identifying not only with the trans movement, but also the Pfefferman family. What I am noticing is people are coming up on the street and talking about their life and their family, and they say, 'Your family is just like mine.'

There's absolutely no part of what I do that my dad doesn't have the utmost pride in. It doesn't matter what the job is - he's... supportive. Same with my mother.

My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.

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

My mom is fully supportive of me, and she's just like every other mother.

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 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.

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.

As I wrote 'The Christmas Lamp' I realized that tradition is priceless, whether you have a small family, a large family, or no family. Tradition doesn't have to be logical; it only has to emphasize the light of Christ and his everlasting love.

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

I'm actually an only child with very supportive parents, so I didn't have the sibling rivalry to draw from.

I am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families.

I've learned that it comes in so many different shapes and sizes, and that communities with autism are extremely supportive of one another.

I do think people should be proud and supportive of their friends, in publishing and everywhere else.

My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.

Due to my lack of family, I've almost built a family around me of friends that are, for me that is, they mean more to me than my own family.

I have great friends. That's key for me for: surrounding myself with people who are supportive and kind.

Channel Ten is extremely proud of 'Offspring' and could not be more supportive of us.

As a Christian, I think it’s really important to find a man of God to trust and be supportive of me.

I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I'm an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn't just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.

I think that in any family - black, white, Chinese, Spanish, whatever - family is family. You know that there's dysfunction, and that there's this cousin who doesn't like this auntie. But, at the end of the day, like I say, love brings everybody together.

The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.

Believe me, I recognize the cultural and anatomical challenges and respect the sacrifices women make in order to balance family and a career, or family with no career, or career with no family.

I managed to fit most of the writing to evenings and weekends, and my wife has been very supportive.

Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.

I love my smart, supportive, if-I-see-something-I'm-going-to-speak-up type of men.

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.

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.

Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.

We are all human beings. As such, we are part of a big family: the human family. The pain of any human being will somehow affect the entire family.

Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.

The RNC had been incredibly supportive of my efforts in 2014... I couldn't have won without them.

I grew up in a household without a lot of problems and they have been very supportive from day one

Growing up, my dad was a pastor, and much like The First Family or people in front of the public eye, we were highly scrutinized as a family within the church and looked at as - well, I guess you would call an example of what that family image should be.

I monitor my self-talk, making sure that it is uplifting and supportive of myself and others.

Rob is incredibly supportive. When I work he takes care of the kids and vice versa.

People have been so supportive of this career for so long, and they are still enjoying the music that I bring to them.

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.

Yash is loving, caring, understanding and supportive. He is the kind of man I have wanted to marry.

I think I'm less gloomy than I used to be - I've got a very supportive other half.

I did not want to be an engineer or be in information technology, and my parents were supportive of my decision.

The family indeed is dead, if what we mean by it is the modern family system in which units comprised of male breadwinner and female homemaker, married couples, and their offspring dominate the land. But its ghost, the ideology of the family, survives to haunt the consciousness of all those who refuse to confront it. It is time to perform a social autopsy on the corpse of the modern family system so that we may try to lay its troublesome spirit to rest.