You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

A father is a banker provided by nature.

My family is my strength and my weakness.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

I also feel that I have been very honest with my friends, my family and also with the public about the mistakes that I've made and the challenges that I've gone through.

All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

I think Rowdy might be the most important person in my life. maybe more important than my family. Can your best friend be more importamt than your family 24

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

Heredity: An omnibus in which all our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.

None but a mule denies his family.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Family: A unit composed not only of children, but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself.

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors they knew just where it hurt.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.

I want a family someday and I know that I have to let love in to create that and I think there is someone out there for me, but I'm not on some crazy hunt for that right now.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.

What can you do to promote world peace Go home and love your family.

For me, family always comes first; I would do anything to protect them.

Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that were related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Left wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

I've been so blessed to be part of a family that has dedicated its life to public service.

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away.

I'm very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It's a relationship that makes sense to me. I'm very pleased to have my name associated with Bean Pole Jeans.

My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

I've always wanted to do a family movie.

Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.

My mother was the center of the family.

I can't compare family to athletics.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.

Your folks are god you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.

Jesus is busy with his own stuff and is not going to get involved in your little tugofwar. Plus dont forget he has his own mother to deal with. Shes all he can handle as far as mothers go.

Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.

A man first quarrels with his father about three quarters of a year before he is born.

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family father, mother, children is fundamental to our civilisation.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

A small family is soon provided for.

It is not until much later as the skin sags and the heart weakens that children understand their stories and all their accomplishments sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers stones upon stones beneath the waters of their lives.

I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I'm like a kid.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described and will be, after our deaths by each of the family members who believe they know us.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade off. But I'll take it all.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.

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

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.

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

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.

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

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

A lot of those ideal towns are all starting to look the same, the specifics are starting to disappear. So we need to retain a love for life, a love for one's family, a love for where one's really from.

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships.

My job is to make sure that if you're a family in Florida, your children can get a good education and you have the opportunity for a job. That's my job and that's what I think about every day.

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career as well as a family of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.

My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of love.

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.'

Because thats what families do for each other. They support each other whether they agree with the other persons decisions or not. Its called love. Faith Barnett from Texas Tangle

Youre good at love she said simply because it seemed to her that it was true. Im not so good at love. Im like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.He shrugged. I dont mind you pushing me away if it means you love me little sister.

We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.

At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.

We have it, we're lucky enough that we've created a show where it's not about... a family, or a kid, it's about a town.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.

I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.

I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.

I have some cops in my family. I understand the predicament that they're in. Sometimes they go into it just to pay the bills or because they don't have other choices, or sometimes they just want to get the gun.

We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.

Watch over Honoria will you See she doesnt marry an idiot. Daniel SmytheSmith

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family.

I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.

My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.

My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.

My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family.

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

A bad father has never a good son.

Many a family tree needs trimming.

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

Families cant live with cant live without

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Of all the titles that Ive been privileged to have the title of dad has always been the best.

It's a good harsh reality, because my family keeps me very grounded.

Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

My wife, my family, my friends they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

Nona was as wacky as they came.

Tennis just a game, family is forever.

Everybody's family has problems.

Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me.

One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself.

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

I'm focused on football; focused on my family right now.

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

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!

I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.

In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

I'm so centered in feeling great about me that I can give great things to my son and my husband and my family.

I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and I was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.

Donit kill her now just when weve gone to all that trouble to rescue her said Jeffrey.

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA.

My family and school life are important to me.

When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.

It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

You know, we're a tight family. I live right down the street from my folks. I talk to my mother every day. I'm a momma's boy. We all are. So there's no exclusion in this family. You're part of it. We embrace you and lift you up.

Dying people in pre industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.

Success can bring you happiness finding happiness is success

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.

I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

When Ulysses saw his brother a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes because now he was hom

For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.

A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.

In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

Dr. Evil got shortchanged in the first one. The family dynamic between Scott and Dr. Evil the adventures of being an evil single parent needed to be explored.

I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy headed idiots hate me.

I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast.

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them but it was not my family.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

Everything family does is reflection on the other people.

My family was my guide to my reality.

Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise... is to help you and your family.

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing songy at home.

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

Usually I spend my holidays with my family.

Stranger the Blue Man said are just family you have yet to come to know.

I'd like to have a family.

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who havent got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

I haven't traditionally been a family entertainer.

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers.

I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that's plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.

Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.

You take care of family first friends second and neighbors when you can.

I don't think that I'm that easy to live with. I have to be reminded that I can have fun. I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.

The way I was brought up he needed killing is an airtight alibi.

Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted.

But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing... this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives relationships and family. To me, it's always an interesting area to mine. I'm drawn to it.

She smiled and feigned enthusiasm although she cared little for the game. Sometimes thats what you did for the people you loved.

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.

The first born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

Family is the most effective form of government.

Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.

There was once a king and he had a queen and he was the manliest of his gender and she was the loveliest of hers. They had nineteen children and were always having more.

The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.

Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.

I want my family to resemble the family I came from.

The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.

There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.

Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.

Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.

I try and have family time, all the time, so you know, I get to see them a lot. And I'm always with my friends, my boyfriend, it helps me keep grounded and kind of sane.

The Internet doesnt love you or need you but your family does.

What manner of mind considers this holy estate pregnancy which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social conscience

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

I stay in tune with my family and God.

I am very lucky, I have a very tight group of friends and a very supportive family, and to this date no one has ever sold a story on me.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

I'm not a chef. I haven't created any new technique in the kitchen. I'm not a rocket scientist. I think I'm good at writing accessible, fun, and affordable meals for the average American family. That's what I think I'm good at.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

Its all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members but they wont let anyone else do it. Thats when you get your back up and show loyalty.

In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.

The point Ms. Conyers continued is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary but not in real life.

Family, nature and health all go together.

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish very gently.

For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant.

Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.

in the working class, the process of building a family, of making a living for it, of nurturing and maintaining the individuals in it

At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.

Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.

My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time.

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.

I think when someone is injured in your family, you want to speak to the individual and you want to hear their voice and you want to make sure they are OK.

My encounters with racism are sort of second hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family.

I know I cant tell you what its like to be gay. But I can tell you what its not. Its not hiding behind words Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

I want to be remembered for Swiss Family Robinson and Old Yeller. I think Swiss is probably my favorite film.

It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one parent family.

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars BMW's mostly for myself and my family.

Whenever we were on a plane, we had a family.

Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender these form the wealth of home.

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

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

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

The heart of a person only beats when its surrounded by blood by family.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.

I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.

The heart wants what it wants Dolp. You dont plan on making your life complicated it just happensand you dont do it on purpose and you dont do it to hurt people who love you. It just turns out that way sometimes.

A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.

I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.

If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, Why god? Why me? and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.

All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family its just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.

Aint nothing more important than loving your mama. Even if you cant understand her. Love her. Thats all you gotta do.

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

The only people I have seen who have been truly pushing for the truth are the family members.

Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting.

My family is very theatrical.

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

My family don't watch a lot of what I do. Films are a bit too arty farty for them, certainly the ones I do!

In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.

My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.

When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.

When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.

I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

Even if a man has everything money power the key to eternal life he still is nothing if he is without a family to love him and for him to love.

I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday.

A son could bear complacently the death of his father while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.

I have my family, my children I have a lot of outside activities.

I think those who invest in mutual funds want someone else to do the thinking for them. But the fact that they can move the money around the family of mutual funds just through a phone call lets them feel that they can play tycoons.

It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting well, they don't see that too often.

I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.

My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you're not really needed by your family, but you're there. And my kids like to know I'm there.

You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.

I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to?

We're a very close family and we're a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems.

No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.

We got more out of this as a family than we were able to give to the people.

I never thought I would get such a perfect role in 'Modern Family.' A lot of TV shows now are looking for more Latin women.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

I just want to have a great relationship with my child and have a great family dynamic.

My family and friends treat me as they always have.

I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

After a few years of not talking I tried reaching out to my father but by that time he was already a few inches beyond my outstretched fingers.

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother in law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

The voters are going to decide in November who is going to fix their personal family dismay over not having jobs in America. They are going to pick Mitt Romney.

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

Mother is a verb. Its something you do. Not just who you are.

Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.

I have spent my life reassembling the family farm.

I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball just spend a lot more time with my family.

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.

In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.

Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20 million to $200 million multi year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.

I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family.

You can kiss your family and friends goodbye and put miles between you but a the same time you carry them with you in your heart your mind your stomach because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love.

I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.

Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt all this can do more for a child's well being than any amount of money in out of work benefits.

A good father lives so he is a credit to his children.

With all my fans I got a family again.

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

At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it.

I now know for certain that my mind and emotions my fix on the real and my familys wellbeing depend on just a few grams of salt. But treatments the easy part. Without honesty without a true family reckoning that salts next to worthless.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.

But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.

I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.

My family's really close.

The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up.

Pais que no conhecem a si mesmo no so capazes de evitar a reproduo em seus filhos de suas disfunes

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

I didn't have any of those good assets to have successful teenage years. It was hard. And what saved me was definitely my whole family. I knew where I was coming from and where I was going to.

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

I'm really close to all of my family.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Flea stared at us I cant decide whats worse. Losing family members or not having a family member to lose.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

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

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.

My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming.

I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids... my older parents and my preachers and everybody.

We are a very crafty family.

I do a lot of writing about my family.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.

I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family the so called royal family.

it aint as hard as picking cotton

I learned from Francis Ford Coppola to treat the company like your family.

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

My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Everything is ideal to its parent.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.

You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

I merged those two words black and feminist because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them on mild evenings.

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

We are all four of us blood relatives and we speak a kind of esoteric family language a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.

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.

I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.

I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers.

I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Nebraskans are known for giving of themselves and that quality is part of what makes our state such a wonderful place to live, work and raise a family.

I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting walled in I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind of have, protective armour. It's not for my friends or family, but for being.outside in the world, always on guard.

The study of music was a family interest.

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

Sometimes it can be bad to have too much family. Everybody gets involved in your problems, giving their opinion, gossiping, and making drama. But when bad things happen, they will be there to support you.

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.

I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin enlisting the mothers.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

If theres a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love whos trapped underground I dont know it.

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

I really miss Gunsmoke. It was like losing my whole family.

The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.

I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybody comes.

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.

I want to spend more time with my family.

My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

I wanted to say thanks... and share my gratitude for everything I've been blessed with. Family, friends, and continued support from everyone.

I am the shortest and least funny person in my family.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across the board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.

Sometimes I want to be human for you.

Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

I've never heard anybody in my family say anything but good things about Rick Perry.

I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family.

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

But in dying so suddenly her mother had become a riddle at the gate instead of the road you walked to get there.

The fans and supporters are also part of the Olympic family.

When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all the people around me.

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.

It's impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family, with a man, or with a friend, and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time.

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout this situation, and for that, I am very grateful.

If theres one thing I learned it is that blood families can sometimes be the pits its the one you make for yourself that really gives you a home and people to love.

There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful.

I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.

People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.

Fred you next the plump woman said. Im not Fred Im George said the boy. Honestly woman you call yourself our mother Cant you tell Im George Sorry George dear. Only joking I am Fred said the boy and off he went.

When he picked out the gravesite plot my father had joked that he was moving at last to the suburbs.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.

I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I'm not a fighter.

You know, you only get one family, and you have to make it work.

The family is the school of duties... founded on love.

My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the heather in front of me.

If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast to coast is stuffed.

We a family carin for each other. Family make us strong in times of trouble. We all stick together help each other out. That the real meanin of family. When you grow up you take that family feelin with you.

One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

My work and my family are very important to me.

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

We don't need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.

Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

Familys not family unless its totally messing you up. Im pretty sure thats the point

I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

Women tend to have recognition and peer group support recognition from friends and family that this has to be a big issue in their lives. They're more comfortable expressing the need for support and receiving it.

I grew up in a working class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.

A good family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

Ns pais erramos muito e frequentemente porque os manuais so genricos e nosso produto especshyfico.

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion.

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.

The only thing I care about is my family.

A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal Family. I am truly sorry for misleading people and misstating the facts.

My family is more important than my party.

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

My family's the most important thing in my life.

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.

We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.

The dead leave their shadows an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That's not my family's fault; it was my perception.

You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

Some people seem compelled by unkind fate to parental servitude for life. There is no form of penal service worse than this.

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school.

Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

Nobody actually played tennis in my family.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

Tikrj tavo eim sieja ne kraujo ryys o pagarba ir diaugsmas kuriuos randate vienas kito gyvenime. Vienos eimos nariai retai iauga po tuo paiu stogu.

My family, my parents are hippies.

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

That sounds terrific thought Cary just you your comatose wife your shellshocked son and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah that sounds like a perfect family reunion.

I figure this is my time to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.

I want to make sure my family's straight.

I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

They stayed by my side the whole time my teammates, family and all the fans.

The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete compete, consume consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.

Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done by far.

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.

I need to work to support my family.

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

We cant choose our blood but we can choose those who run importance in our lives.

I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family.

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.

Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.

Family is not an important thing it is everything

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper changing and lunch making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super nanny.- Vin Diesel

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3 year old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.

There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

I always knew I was going to be a family man.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds.

There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

My favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family.

We believed in our idea a family park where parents and children could have fun together.

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co workers or your clients and customers.

We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I'm trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

A brother is a friend given by Nature.

I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African American we have ever researched.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Family isnt something thats supposed to be static or set. People marry in divorce out. Theyre born they die. Its always evolving turning into something else.

Sometimes its heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people theyve become. Maybe thats why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

We are a noisy and blessed little family

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

The whole world is my family.

It has an L on it. L for love. See Its the key to the universe Dad. You said you were looking for it. You told Mom you were. I found it for you so you dont have to look anymore. So you can come home at night.

He doesnt have to love your CD collection. He doesnt have to love your shoes. But any good mature guy better make an attempt to love your friends and familyespecially when theyre great.

we must take care of our families wherever we find them.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

I do want to have holidays and see my family and friends.

I was with a friend of mine recently who was dying and while he was lying there with his family around his bed I just knew that was it that was the best you can hope for in life to have your family and the people who love you around you at the end.

Small fruit is better than big words.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

Family is not just a biological word its an an operative one.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.

The woman is the home. Thats where she used to be and thats where she still is. You might ask me What if a man tries to be part of the home will the woman let him I answer yes. Because the he becomes one of the children.

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. Proverbs 18:19

My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.

You must remember family is often born of blood but it doesnt depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends you know. And best friends whether or not they are related to you can be your family.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're always right.' No, they tell me when I'm wrong, and that's why I've been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

The first Superman film took up a huge chunk of our lives, but it was a wonderful time for us. We were young, my daughter was little, we were filming in London for a year, so we became like a close family.

I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

It's been a journey. For women of color, for my family. It's one dream coming true after another.

I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.

I love when I go out and I have my hair and makeup done, but I also like it when I'm just with the family because that's real.

I like change. I've never really had much consistency in my life, you know, from everyday work to my living situation to whether or not I'm going to be in L.A. The one constant thing in my life is my friends and family, which is all I need.

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody i love, i would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but i would eat them.

It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

It's always easier if you have the support of your family, if you're not alone. I came from a country that has been through a lot of troubles in the last 20 to 30 years, but we have been through them together.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since.

I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so I was sort of babysat by television.

The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Thank goodness we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are and be thankful

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

I hope that my family will continue in another thousand years.

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

Family isnt about blood relationships its about the meaning behind them. I relize now that sharing chromosoms is not the only way to having a family its about the friendship behind it.

It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes its hard to tell.

I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.

I decided that it's either, you know, if I want to have children, have a family and and live a long life, I've got to make some real, real serious changes.

I cant help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.

That has always been it for me: family first.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove you always know who to turn to. That being a family isnt a social construct but an instinct.

Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.

I have those moments with my kids and family where we try to unplug and just be in the moment. We put everything else to the side and just be there with our family.

I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

My dear young cousin if theres one thing Ive learned over the eons its that you cant give up on your family no matter how tempting they make it.

Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families.

Then Henry speaks again. Did he do itI turn to him slowly. Does it matter

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

I believe that a family is very important. You must have someone to come to after work to forget the stressful day. With Roy I have someone like that.

With a family of six, there is always something to make, create and do together.

I'm thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support.

I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter; she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.

I've always dreamed of having a large family.

If you live in each others pockets long enough youre related.

I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.

Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.

You cant force folks to have good sense even if theyre family. Maybe especially then.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

When I walk I walk with you. Where I go youre with me always.

Kau lahir penuh harapan dan kau memberiku sedikit harapan itu.

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

Unless they have disabilities to cope with, no family should get more from living on benefits than the average family gets from going out to work. No more open ended chequebook.

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

I've always known I wanted a family.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too.

A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman bonded together for life always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.

The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

You know people thought it was so sad that I gave up so much to take care of Emmy but it wasnt sad. It was love it was life.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.

A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family.

The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

Families break up when they get hints you dont intend and miss hints that you do.

Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love

It put a strain on our relationship and our family, … We thought, ‘what can we do?

I think for anybody, any family, and I know there are families out there that are going through this even now, that it is the hardest thing in the world. Nobody is ever prepared for it.

I just have a lot of respect for Terry and his family. He played without a mask, and his life was tragically ended. And it just means a lot to me to be up there with him and the other greats that have played that long.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

You have to make your own family your own life.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

You know, just in terms of having to have a life on the road, you know, having the celebrity aspect be a burden for my family, friends and extended family.

Son there are times a man has to do things he doesnt like to in order to protect his family.

It is not only paying wages, and giving commands, that constitute a master of a family; but prudence, equal behavior, with a readiness to protect and cherish them, is what entitles man to that character in their very hearts and sentiments.

My family is healthy and happy.

My Miracle living through a Traumatic brain Injury

Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.

Family always gonna be there.

He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us he said were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.

As we all came to discover the limitations of assimilation we grew closer as a family

Defend the church. Defend the family Defend the non profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them.

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.

The Screamingflashed me backto a timewhen mom and dadwere still togetherif you could callmiles apart together.

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.

This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. I thought it was a great idea to have a mouse like that in your family, so now I get to see what it was like.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family.

When everything goes to hell the people who stand by you without flinching they are your family.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

You dont do that. You dont just leave your family. Sticking together... its the only way to survive.

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby – nothing more.

Our ancestors derived less from life than we do but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised By whom

I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.

If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.

The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.

I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration.

I make our family traditions a priority.

I know family comes first but shouldnt that mean after breakfast

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend

He God never promises that our families will be safe. Not in the way we think. He does promise his presence though.

You have to defend your honor. And your family.

If you didnt feel like your support system was strong enough then getting yourself out of the situation was the best thing to do

I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.

Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.

There were thieves and hypocrites among us to be sure and true saints sprinkled here and there but most were simply good honest people who worshiped their Creator the best they knew how. We were a family.

This is so weird. Theyre your brother and aunt.No I understand. Theyre your family too. Rhys said. They loved you and raised you. Thats what family is right

I love being around my family.

So if you have a grandma, Thank the Good Lord up above, And give Grandmama hugs and kisses, For grandmothers are to love.

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

My family comes first, and you have to be in charge to be able to protect that. You have to be the one who says no or you don't have a life, which is what I found out the first time.

Un des problmes essentiels qui se posent nbsp propos de la femme cest la conciliation de son rle reproducteur et de son travail producteur.

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family a statement and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.

so familiar that you slide back to the place where you fit.

A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good.

Without this flock I would be worthless. Without the people in this flock Id be empty. Without the people who started this flock Id be dead.

I love my family.

Real friends are treated like family.

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

I love film. After a yummy meal for the whole family and some truly great friends, we often go out to see something beautiful and unique.

I have two older sisters; I'm the youngest.

Together in our house in the firelight we are the world made small.

The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

It was like how people find other people to be in love with all random and accidental and lucky.

Everyone loves each other but no one really likes each other

You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say its not gender that makes a family its love. You dont need a mother and a father you dont necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone whos got your back.

Ive been so focused on state government I havent really focused much on the war in Iraq.

Phoebe Broome Well she said at last. Youve now met my father. At his worst.Lord Vladimir Being myself widely considered my familys most difficult member I would not presume to comment.That is... gentlemanly of you.

hot afternoonthe squeak of my handson my daughters coffin

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.

Being a detective isnt all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant...The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives.

I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.

One must love God first and only then can one love ones closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols to one another for such is not the will of God.

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family.

Is this what family is like the feeling that everyones connected that with one piece missing the whole things broken

Life is filled with rhythmsday and night hot and cold summer and winter spring and fall cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.

My family makes these vinegars out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.

Some things in life are certain death taxes and that your family will piss you off.

How can it be after all this concentrated effort and separation how can it be that I still resemble so very closely my own detestable mother

I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own.

My father never talked about the sacrifices that the family made for me.

Its not blood that makes us who we are Dad said. Its family. And its not blood that makes us family. Its love.

You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.

I grew up in a great family.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

We are all searching for some form of family or foundation for a place we can feel safe and secure.

I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it.

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

Never judge someone by their relatives.

He sat staring before him seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers inexhaustable and prolific to the end of time.

Ill love you foreverIll like you for always As long as Im living my baby youll be.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

My schedule can be hectic, so I'm always trying to find time to see my friends and family.

Si conoces una familia funcional no la conoces bien.

It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them.

Family is just accident Jessie. Its nothing personal hon. They dont mean to get on your nerves. They dont even mean to be your family they just are.

Dont you dare take the lazy way. Its too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Dont let me catch you doing it Now look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do it will be you who do.

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

I saw a movie once that said that two people in a family arent enough.

One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

We all fight for money some for power but most of all for love. But me I fight to become a champion.

Holidays are the best. I couldn't imagine being from a small family.

Smiles add values to our face.. Love adds value to our heart..Respect adds value to our behaviour.And..Friends and Family add value to our life…

In Africa there is a birthrate trap a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not lead to a higher standard of living.

Whats the best part of being in Hermes cabinConnor You are never lonely. I mean seriously new kids are always coming in. So you always have someone to talk to.Travis Or prank.Connor Or pickpocket. One big happy family.

All the kids with fancy shoes or clothes do you know what I got with a family of nine When ever we said lets play poker we had a full team of adults right there.

Its all right Tessa you can go. We love you. You can go now.Why are you saying thatShe might need permission to die Cal.I dont want her to. She doesnt have my permission.

If people are lucky enough to have family they should cultivate it. A Prologue to Love

You dont love Buck. If you did youd have four kids by now. Wouldnt you Now wouldnt you A woman like you...

For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.

I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.

You should always tell friends and family you love them because the future is unexpected and everyone should know they are loved.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues the most dominating virtues of human are created strengthened and maintained.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don't see that in Italy or Spain. It's not because they can't afford to buy them, it's because that's not what eating together as a family is about.

Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

Grief is a curious thing when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Bandaid being ripped away taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty ours no exception.

My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.

Accept the fact that girls squeal when theyre happy or confused or excited or scared or because they just saw a certain boy in line.

Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.

He laughs. And in his laugh I hear bliss. I hear feet dancing the rush of skirts twirling. The sound of children.Is that the first sign of loveYou hear in the person youre destined to love the sound of those yet to be born.

I'm very much a family person.

Im allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think wed do better as dandelion seedsno family no history just floating off into the world each on our own piece of fluff.

If we abandon marriage, we abandon thael Enze family.

You have no idea how dearly I wish you were of my blood. My daughter granddaughter. Will you allow me to take pride in what you are Sandre to Catriana

But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me.

For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.

Its the family you choose that counts.

The further I get away from coaching, the more I know I made the right decision. You almost forget how wonderful family life is.

A family is one of natures solubles it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

In two words said Alan quietly there is nothing I love half as much as you.

I sustain myself with the love of family.

I still read the British papers, but I've never been a Royalist, ever. It's funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.

I was lucky enough to have a loving present father in my family.

Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.

We feel really blessed to have been asked to come here, and to have the opportunity for our family to be able to look into the eyes of these people, and in some way help.

She understands suddenly that the stuff that fills her up is not the love or attention she might get from other people it is the love she herself has for other people. We are Portia decides the people we love

Cruel Harvest by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a memoir that will touch your heart.

Ill be your family now he says. I love you I say. ....He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me. Say it again.Tobias I say I love you.

I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.

For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer we played football outside.

I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.

And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.

Family is more than blood

I wasnt thinking all of themjust Zed and Victor. Zed as the seventh son has a touch of most of our skills and can hold us together when we do a joint investigation. Hes a pain in the neck but a useful one.

If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work.

But you know, we have a very normal family. We've had our ups and downs. You know, we've had our issues, but we've had great cause for celebration.

They had nothing to say to each other. A fiveyear age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.

I was sad to see anybody leave, we had a very nice family on that show. I was very sad to see momma go, Victoria and especially Linda. My god that was my wife on the show, in fact my wife calls her wife.

The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked

The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only and that is to support the ultimate career.

I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.

Abba you may not like it but what Im doing is important. If you dont agree then Im sorry. I cant do anything about it.

The foundation of family that's where it all begins for me.

In the school of success information is the greatest asset. The more you read the more you discover the more you discover the more you recover and the better your life become.

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

I have three sisters, that's it for the family.

It's really all about family, love and the children for me. I work at that every day.

I told myself that some families we get without asking while others we choose. And I chose those two. I think thats what youd call a silver lining.

If we adopted Jack I quip wed have to give him combat pay for an allowance

If she wasnt your grandmother Id shoot her.Ranger

These people make my family look easy to get along with.

Every single kid in my group of friends at school was from a single parent family.

God is the designer of the family.

Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.

Of course, I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes, just like my mama, grandmother and family shared with me over the years. And now, I'll be adding a little bit of a lighter touch to some of these wonderful dishes.

When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.

Everybody sung in my family.

Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!

When she cant bring me to heal with scolding she bends me to shape with guilt.

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue collar dude.- Ice T

Hes my brother my blood. He annoys the hell out of me most of the time but when it comes right down to it I want to see him graduate from college and have little annoying miniAlexes and miniBrittanys running around in the future

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – opening line from Anna Karenina

A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and especially the father.

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man made religions.

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.

Honor your father and mother, even as you honor God, for all three were partners in your creation.

I tell you the truth everyone who lives in sin is a slave to sin. A slave does not stay with a family forever but a son belongs to the family FOREVER. So if the Son makes you free you will be truly free

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

I am proud of all of the products in the Ed Hardy family.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

My ideal day would be to get a good work out in, listen to music, talk to my family and friends on the phone, read and go to a good movie.

My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.

Any MP has to have a proper family life, they have to have support of their partner.

My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do.

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.

The best is when we all go at once like an army of interrelated popcorn zombies who laugh the same laughs and gasp the same gasps and arent so germphobic with each other that we wont share a ginormous Coke with one straw. Family is useful like that.

There was a saying in our family that no one ever died people just dried up were hung on a hook and conducted their affairs from there.

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' those complications when one is searching for one's self.

I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.

The fights are always the same

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

Aber hey es ist ja nur eine Familie. Es ist ja nur meine Familie. Es ist ja nur alles.

We wanted a family so bad all of us. And we just grabbed each another and made us one. Simple as that.

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.

Spending time with the ones who are dear to you is like being in a dream is it not

Oh, you know, driving around, coming to a stop sign and an entire family, from 8 to 80, will be looking at me with that Dr. Evil look pinkie on the mouth.

No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.

Wasnt there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mississippi

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.

When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.

It always gave me a peculiar feeling to catch a glimpse of my parents lives before I was born.

I'm trying to make enough money where I can be financially independent and be able to go and just pursue that thing that everybody really needs, just pursue my family and the cause of my family.

Mitt Romney comes from a family of builders.

I never let myself yearn for Buckley afraid he might see my image in a mirror or a bottle cap. Like everyone else I was trying to protect him.

I hadnt been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.

You cannot say no to the people you love not often. Thats the secret. And then when you do it has to sound like a yes. Or you have to make them say no. You have to take time and trouble.

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.

You may be as different as the sun and the moon but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her as she needs you...

She has always been a bystander in family destruction never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing.

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young Native American families to stay on tribal lands in order to live, work and raise a family.

My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.

I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.

Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world.

And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

I'm just a public schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle class family in Devon. I've got no story.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors old friends, family.

If I loved someone I could never let him go away from me. I would be too miserable and lonely.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

A father is a banker provided by nature.

My family is my strength and my weakness.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

I also feel that I have been very honest with my friends, my family and also with the public about the mistakes that I've made and the challenges that I've gone through.

All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

I think Rowdy might be the most important person in my life. maybe more important than my family. Can your best friend be more importamt than your family 24

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

Heredity: An omnibus in which all our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.

None but a mule denies his family.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Family: A unit composed not only of children, but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself.

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors they knew just where it hurt.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.

I want a family someday and I know that I have to let love in to create that and I think there is someone out there for me, but I'm not on some crazy hunt for that right now.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.

What can you do to promote world peace Go home and love your family.

For me, family always comes first; I would do anything to protect them.

Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that were related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Left wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

I've been so blessed to be part of a family that has dedicated its life to public service.

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away.

I'm very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It's a relationship that makes sense to me. I'm very pleased to have my name associated with Bean Pole Jeans.

My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

I've always wanted to do a family movie.

Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.

My mother was the center of the family.

I can't compare family to athletics.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.

Your folks are god you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.

Jesus is busy with his own stuff and is not going to get involved in your little tugofwar. Plus dont forget he has his own mother to deal with. Shes all he can handle as far as mothers go.

Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

A man first quarrels with his father about three quarters of a year before he is born.

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family father, mother, children is fundamental to our civilisation.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

A small family is soon provided for.

It is not until much later as the skin sags and the heart weakens that children understand their stories and all their accomplishments sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers stones upon stones beneath the waters of their lives.

I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I'm like a kid.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described and will be, after our deaths by each of the family members who believe they know us.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade off. But I'll take it all.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.

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

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.

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

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.

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

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

A lot of those ideal towns are all starting to look the same, the specifics are starting to disappear. So we need to retain a love for life, a love for one's family, a love for where one's really from.

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships.

My job is to make sure that if you're a family in Florida, your children can get a good education and you have the opportunity for a job. That's my job and that's what I think about every day.

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career as well as a family of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.

My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of love.

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.'

Because thats what families do for each other. They support each other whether they agree with the other persons decisions or not. Its called love. Faith Barnett from Texas Tangle

Youre good at love she said simply because it seemed to her that it was true. Im not so good at love. Im like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.He shrugged. I dont mind you pushing me away if it means you love me little sister.

We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.

At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.

We have it, we're lucky enough that we've created a show where it's not about... a family, or a kid, it's about a town.

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.

I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.

I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.

I have some cops in my family. I understand the predicament that they're in. Sometimes they go into it just to pay the bills or because they don't have other choices, or sometimes they just want to get the gun.

We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.

Watch over Honoria will you See she doesnt marry an idiot. Daniel SmytheSmith

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family.

I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.

My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.

My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.

My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family.

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

A bad father has never a good son.

Many a family tree needs trimming.

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

Families cant live with cant live without

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Of all the titles that Ive been privileged to have the title of dad has always been the best.

It's a good harsh reality, because my family keeps me very grounded.

Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

My wife, my family, my friends they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

Nona was as wacky as they came.

Tennis just a game, family is forever.

Everybody's family has problems.

Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me.

One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself.

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

I'm focused on football; focused on my family right now.

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

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!

I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.

In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

I'm so centered in feeling great about me that I can give great things to my son and my husband and my family.

I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and I was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.

Donit kill her now just when weve gone to all that trouble to rescue her said Jeffrey.

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA.

My family and school life are important to me.

When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.

It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

You know, we're a tight family. I live right down the street from my folks. I talk to my mother every day. I'm a momma's boy. We all are. So there's no exclusion in this family. You're part of it. We embrace you and lift you up.

Dying people in pre industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.

Success can bring you happiness finding happiness is success

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.

I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

When Ulysses saw his brother a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes because now he was hom

For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.

A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.

In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

Dr. Evil got shortchanged in the first one. The family dynamic between Scott and Dr. Evil the adventures of being an evil single parent needed to be explored.

I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy headed idiots hate me.

I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast.

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them but it was not my family.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

Everything family does is reflection on the other people.

My family was my guide to my reality.

Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise... is to help you and your family.

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing songy at home.

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

Usually I spend my holidays with my family.

Stranger the Blue Man said are just family you have yet to come to know.

I'd like to have a family.

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who havent got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

A brother is a friend provided by nature.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

I haven't traditionally been a family entertainer.

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers.

I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that's plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.

Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.

You take care of family first friends second and neighbors when you can.

I don't think that I'm that easy to live with. I have to be reminded that I can have fun. I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.

The way I was brought up he needed killing is an airtight alibi.

Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted.

But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing... this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives relationships and family. To me, it's always an interesting area to mine. I'm drawn to it.

She smiled and feigned enthusiasm although she cared little for the game. Sometimes thats what you did for the people you loved.

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making 30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.

The first born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

Family is the most effective form of government.

Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.

There was once a king and he had a queen and he was the manliest of his gender and she was the loveliest of hers. They had nineteen children and were always having more.

The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.

Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.

I want my family to resemble the family I came from.

The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.

There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.

Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.

Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.

I try and have family time, all the time, so you know, I get to see them a lot. And I'm always with my friends, my boyfriend, it helps me keep grounded and kind of sane.

The Internet doesnt love you or need you but your family does.

What manner of mind considers this holy estate pregnancy which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social conscience

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

I stay in tune with my family and God.

I am very lucky, I have a very tight group of friends and a very supportive family, and to this date no one has ever sold a story on me.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

I'm not a chef. I haven't created any new technique in the kitchen. I'm not a rocket scientist. I think I'm good at writing accessible, fun, and affordable meals for the average American family. That's what I think I'm good at.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

Its all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members but they wont let anyone else do it. Thats when you get your back up and show loyalty.

In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.

The point Ms. Conyers continued is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary but not in real life.

Family, nature and health all go together.

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish very gently.

For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant.

Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.

in the working class, the process of building a family, of making a living for it, of nurturing and maintaining the individuals in it

At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.

Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.

My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time.

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.

I think when someone is injured in your family, you want to speak to the individual and you want to hear their voice and you want to make sure they are OK.

My encounters with racism are sort of second hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family.

I know I cant tell you what its like to be gay. But I can tell you what its not. Its not hiding behind words Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

I want to be remembered for Swiss Family Robinson and Old Yeller. I think Swiss is probably my favorite film.

It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one parent family.

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars BMW's mostly for myself and my family.

Whenever we were on a plane, we had a family.

Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender these form the wealth of home.

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

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

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

The heart of a person only beats when its surrounded by blood by family.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.

I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.

The heart wants what it wants Dolp. You dont plan on making your life complicated it just happensand you dont do it on purpose and you dont do it to hurt people who love you. It just turns out that way sometimes.

A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.

I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.

If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, Why god? Why me? and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.

All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family its just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.

Aint nothing more important than loving your mama. Even if you cant understand her. Love her. Thats all you gotta do.

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

The only people I have seen who have been truly pushing for the truth are the family members.

Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting.

My family is very theatrical.

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

My family don't watch a lot of what I do. Films are a bit too arty farty for them, certainly the ones I do!

In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.

My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.

When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.

When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.

I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

Even if a man has everything money power the key to eternal life he still is nothing if he is without a family to love him and for him to love.

I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday.

A son could bear complacently the death of his father while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.

I have my family, my children I have a lot of outside activities.

I think those who invest in mutual funds want someone else to do the thinking for them. But the fact that they can move the money around the family of mutual funds just through a phone call lets them feel that they can play tycoons.

It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting well, they don't see that too often.

I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.

My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you're not really needed by your family, but you're there. And my kids like to know I'm there.

You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.

I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to?

We're a very close family and we're a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems.

No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.

We got more out of this as a family than we were able to give to the people.

I never thought I would get such a perfect role in 'Modern Family.' A lot of TV shows now are looking for more Latin women.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

I just want to have a great relationship with my child and have a great family dynamic.

My family and friends treat me as they always have.

I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

After a few years of not talking I tried reaching out to my father but by that time he was already a few inches beyond my outstretched fingers.

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother in law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

The voters are going to decide in November who is going to fix their personal family dismay over not having jobs in America. They are going to pick Mitt Romney.

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than 250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

Mother is a verb. Its something you do. Not just who you are.

Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.

I have spent my life reassembling the family farm.

I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball just spend a lot more time with my family.

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.

In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.

Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a 20 million to 200 million multi year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.

I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family.

You can kiss your family and friends goodbye and put miles between you but a the same time you carry them with you in your heart your mind your stomach because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love.

I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.

Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt all this can do more for a child's well being than any amount of money in out of work benefits.

A good father lives so he is a credit to his children.

With all my fans I got a family again.

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

At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it.

I now know for certain that my mind and emotions my fix on the real and my familys wellbeing depend on just a few grams of salt. But treatments the easy part. Without honesty without a true family reckoning that salts next to worthless.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.

But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.

I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.

My family's really close.

The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up.

Pais que no conhecem a si mesmo no so capazes de evitar a reproduo em seus filhos de suas disfunes

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

I didn't have any of those good assets to have successful teenage years. It was hard. And what saved me was definitely my whole family. I knew where I was coming from and where I was going to.

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

I'm really close to all of my family.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Flea stared at us I cant decide whats worse. Losing family members or not having a family member to lose.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

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

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.

My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming.

I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids... my older parents and my preachers and everybody.

We are a very crafty family.

I do a lot of writing about my family.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.

I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family the so called royal family.

it aint as hard as picking cotton

I learned from Francis Ford Coppola to treat the company like your family.

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

My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Everything is ideal to its parent.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.

You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

I merged those two words black and feminist because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them on mild evenings.

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

We are all four of us blood relatives and we speak a kind of esoteric family language a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.

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.

I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.

I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers.

I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Nebraskans are known for giving of themselves and that quality is part of what makes our state such a wonderful place to live, work and raise a family.

I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting walled in I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind of have, protective armour. It's not for my friends or family, but for being.outside in the world, always on guard.

The study of music was a family interest.

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

Sometimes it can be bad to have too much family. Everybody gets involved in your problems, giving their opinion, gossiping, and making drama. But when bad things happen, they will be there to support you.

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.

I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin enlisting the mothers.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

If theres a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love whos trapped underground I dont know it.

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

I really miss Gunsmoke. It was like losing my whole family.

The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.

I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybody comes.

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.

I want to spend more time with my family.

My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

I wanted to say thanks... and share my gratitude for everything I've been blessed with. Family, friends, and continued support from everyone.

I am the shortest and least funny person in my family.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across the board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.

Sometimes I want to be human for you.

Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

I've never heard anybody in my family say anything but good things about Rick Perry.

I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family.

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

But in dying so suddenly her mother had become a riddle at the gate instead of the road you walked to get there.

The fans and supporters are also part of the Olympic family.

When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all the people around me.

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.

It's impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family, with a man, or with a friend, and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time.

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout this situation, and for that, I am very grateful.

If theres one thing I learned it is that blood families can sometimes be the pits its the one you make for yourself that really gives you a home and people to love.

There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful.

I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.

People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.

Fred you next the plump woman said. Im not Fred Im George said the boy. Honestly woman you call yourself our mother Cant you tell Im George Sorry George dear. Only joking I am Fred said the boy and off he went.

When he picked out the gravesite plot my father had joked that he was moving at last to the suburbs.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.

I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I'm not a fighter.

You know, you only get one family, and you have to make it work.

The family is the school of duties... founded on love.

My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the heather in front of me.

If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast to coast is stuffed.

We a family carin for each other. Family make us strong in times of trouble. We all stick together help each other out. That the real meanin of family. When you grow up you take that family feelin with you.

One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

My work and my family are very important to me.

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

We don't need sugar, flour or rice or anything else. We just want to see our dear ones.

Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

Familys not family unless its totally messing you up. Im pretty sure thats the point

I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

Women tend to have recognition and peer group support recognition from friends and family that this has to be a big issue in their lives. They're more comfortable expressing the need for support and receiving it.

I grew up in a working class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.

A good family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

Ns pais erramos muito e frequentemente porque os manuais so genricos e nosso produto especshyfico.

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion.

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.

The only thing I care about is my family.

A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal Family. I am truly sorry for misleading people and misstating the facts.

My family is more important than my party.

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

My family's the most important thing in my life.

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.

We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.

The dead leave their shadows an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That's not my family's fault; it was my perception.

You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

Some people seem compelled by unkind fate to parental servitude for life. There is no form of penal service worse than this.

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school.

Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

Nobody actually played tennis in my family.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

Tikrj tavo eim sieja ne kraujo ryys o pagarba ir diaugsmas kuriuos randate vienas kito gyvenime. Vienos eimos nariai retai iauga po tuo paiu stogu.

My family, my parents are hippies.