Family Quotes

I'm gay, it's all a big scam. My kids don't even know who their mother is.

I think there are still words you can't use in family entertainment that you can use in a sitcom today.

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

My brother then bought 1000 Japanese cameras. They all go, "Crick".

My brother then opened a tall man's shop in Tokyo.

I wish my brother would learn a trade, so I would know what kind of work he's out of.

Mothers work outside the home for many reasons; one of them is almost always because their families need their income to live up to their standards for their children.

The night I was born, Lord I swear the moon turned a fire red.

The place to cure most of the ills of society is in the homes of the people.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

We all say in our own lives that money isn't everything. Love matters, friendships matter. My relationship with my kids matters. It shouldn't be a giant leap to take that thought and introduce it into political dialogue

A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason

Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

If we look honestly at our relationships, we can see so much about how we have created them

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.

A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.

If my superiors shall permit me to come home, I hope it will be soon; if they mean I should stay abroad, I am not able to say what I shall do, until I know in what capacity. One thing is certain, that I will not live long without my family.

As husbands, I think one reason we have some trouble with Paul's command to love our wives "as Christ loved the church," is that we don't really fully know how Christ loves the church.

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it, if they are not the most delightful Cares in the World; and if from that Particular alone, he does not find the Bliss of a double State much greater, instead of being less than he expected.

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade.

I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.

It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.

I am well pleased with what I hear of you: The principal Satisfaction I can expect in Life, in future will be in your good Behavior and that of my other Children. My Hopes from all of you are very agreable. God grant, I may not be disappointed.

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

Without Valentine's Day, February would be... well, January.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.

Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?

Family rules? We only have one rule in our house, and that's 'Don't Be Annoying'

My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

A boy's best friend is his mother.

With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

It's nice that I've grown up with the same friends since I was 12, I have a very close knit set of them... I grew up with a lot of people who a lot of other people regarded as heroes, and no one ever came to me for advice, no one ever came to me for protection, and so I don't ever really think I've been looked at as a hero.

Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

Personally, I have been very impressed by the slow food movement. It is about celebrating the culture of food, of sharing the extraordinary knowledge, developed over millennia, of the traditions involved with quality food production, of the sheer joy and pleasure of consuming food together. Especially within the context of family life, this has to be one of the highest forms of cultural activity.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.