Top 1200 Wonderful Family Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Boulez's only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others have moved in. With the need for power, where was he to go? So he chose to be a conductor. He is a wonderful musician, a wonderful intelligence. It's a pity there is no humanity there. Does he have sex? I think not. When men have no sex, they go after power in this big, obsessive way.

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

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

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. Having a family guarantees that you have a built in support system, and although that support system may not always be what you want it to be, when it comes down to the wire, your family will love you and stand behind you, no matter what.

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

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.

I think for Thanksgiving particularly I've always, one of the fun things for me about doing a big dinner is having friends and family so we've always done that, and even through our other holidays like having a mix of friends and family, and if you don't have your family nearby, or it's tough for you, find a friend and go and eat with them.

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

The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do.

I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.

Well, Thanksgiving we'll all gather at my house for dinner and we usually do Christmas at Beau's house. My mom is still feisty and kicking. She's 92. I saw her last night and she published a book at 90. It's a wonderful book called "You Caught Me Kissing" and it's basically love-poems that she wrote for my dad. It's more than that, it's a wonderful book.

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

It is a tribute to Indian democracy that a person from a poor family, an ordinary family, is today addressing the nation from the Red Fort.

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

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

I have connected with my family more because I have made a group in which I have added all my family members from my paternal and maternal side.

I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.

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

I don't think every actress in Bollywood has been associated with Lux. A select few actresses, who they felt suited the brand right (have been associated with it) and they all have been actresses of great stature with wonderful careers and some wonderful work. I am very honoured to join the group of people who have been with Lux over the years.

I'm a triple citizen of the United States, in Switzerland and Tunisia. And actually beyond just my immediate family, all of my family is abroad.

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

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

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

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

The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.

I'm a second-generation professional wrestler. My family, the Rhodes family, has been wrestling for 50-odd years.

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.

Now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire family, as well as myself, my woman, and my team that I consider family.

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

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.

Louisiana is a special place in my family's history, and we are committed as a family to never forget the city and the people of Baton Rouge.

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.

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.

You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy.

Donald Trump has a pre-modern monarchic family structure. His business is a monarchy with family members all around. His administration is a monarchy with family members all around.

Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.

But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.

I want a family. I see my sister, and she's on her second baby, and I'm like, 'That's success.' Having a family - I can't wait for that.

I have always felt it was my duty to protect my family. After Imran became family, I defended him in every way.

At some point, I want to create a family and help them on their journey like my family helped me on mine.

Family is the most important thing in the world. If everything ended tomorrow and my family was still there, I'd be the happiest man alive.

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

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

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

If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like freedom of speech, the most basic right. Freedom from violence, since women worldwide are still like 70% at least of all victims of violence. Equality in the family, democracy in the family, since the family is the microcosm of everything else, so if you have inequality and violence in the family, it normalizes it in the street, for foreign policy, for every place else.

May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

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.

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

I didn't have a blueprint from my childhood that I could call on, which is an enormous deficit when you're trying to put together a family life. I didn't see a family life where men were thriving inside of it. You know, my dad tended to blame the family for his inability to achieve what he wanted to achieve, you know? So, unfortunately, I was coming from that particular frame of mind.

We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know. We are made to tell the world that there are no outsiders. All are welcome: black, white, red, yellow, rich, poor, educated, not educated, male, female, gay, straight, all, all, all. We all belong to this family, this human family, God's family.

A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.

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

You have inherited (the) most from yourself, not from your family! The family is only a river through which Soul flows.

I was looked upon as this privileged actress who was like Yash Chopra's family. He was my second family. Whatever I have achieved is because of him.

I love hanging out with my kids, my family. That's something you never really anticipate or understand it until you have a family.

Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.