My Family Quotes

The responsibility of a man is to lead his family.

People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.

Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?

For men who want to flee Family Man America and never come back, there is a guaranteed solution: homosexuality is the new French Foreign Legion.

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

I like people. Humanity. My family is a part of my work. They contribute throughout the process with critiques, advice, opinions, etc.

I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.

No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.

Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and more an obsession, a source of pain.

I come from a huge family. I am used to taking orders and being told what to do and not having an opinion, but I think that what I've gone through made me really sensitive to other people.

I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family.

If I were ever to go mad it would be on Thanksgiving Day, that day of guilt and grace when the family hangs upon you like an ax over a sacrificial victim, like the oven's heat on that poor bird.

Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.

I do go back to Brazil once a year. I miss my family.

When I'm a Buddhist my family hates me. When I'm the Buddha they love me.

I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family.

Mama stroked his dinger, Daddy got stinky finger.

I guess we were kinda poor when we were kids, but we didn't know it. That's because my dad always refused to let us look at the family's financial records.

Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile.

Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.

My image is very important to me. I want to bring a good face to my family. That's the way I've been raised.

There is a dharma for yourself, for someone else, for a family, for a nation, for a universe. There are collective and individual dharmas.

I was very dawn to people I loved, to my family, to my father, to my sister, to my brothers.

You can live in the world and have friends, family and possessions. But don't take them all too seriously. Death removes everything. Feel death is every moment, as life is every moment.

You can just stay in oblivion, going through your days and your life and your experiences, staying with your friends, family. If that suits you, it's good. But for some people, it's not enough.

Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness on that which does not change.

Keep interested in others, keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young

A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.

It's definitely important to have your mom and family there to back you up and cheering from the stands.

I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those sacrifices I made early on until I could afford it.

All my cousins steal things. Theyre just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.

Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.

My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

Young women who I think do the best job of balancing family life and a big career start businesses or work for themselves. That's the best way of being in charge of your life.

I grew up in a fundamentalist protestant family that stressed that we were a select people and so we were to avoid contact with others who did not share our faith.

Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

The pattern often has been entrenched since childhood... [abusive people] don't think that there is anything wrong with them because that is the way they were brought up in their family.

I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of Family Ties between Monday and Friday.

Love is family, support, priority, and understanding.

People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.

I think in life, people know what they want. They want to survive, they want to have a family. They want to procreate because it's in the genetic law.

If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

Through my whole career, that's been a major thing - bringing my family with me.

I have a very, very creative family.

Their mother had always stressed the importance of taking care of yourself first, your family second and everyone else not at all.. darkest surrender

Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a devout Catholic and gave her a strong belief in the family.

Activities are a real blessing to a family. They provide a way to have fun together, relieve tensions, and develop relationships on new levels with one another.