Family Quotes
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The Bible tells us, “Do not despise the day of small beginnings” (see Zech. 4:10). I believe that whatever it is God has entrusted into your hand—your family, your career, your ministry—don’t count it as insignificant and don’t approach it with a lack of vision.
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Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.
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Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America.
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I love my life, and I love the people that I'm connected to and I love my family and I love what I do, I'm passionate about performing and being onstage. That and meditating and hugging a dog are the only three times I am absolutely sure I will never get a depressed moment. So if I could go from dog-hugging to meditation to being onstage, I'd be good.
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I have three sisters, that's it for the family.
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You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
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I like the idea of a family, but I don't know that I'd like to be a single mum.
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You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.
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I thought, oh, I'm going to be a painter. And eventually my family had moved near Chicago, and when I graduated from high school, I went to the Chicago Art Institute, and it was there that I thought, well, now I'm going to be a painter.
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We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.
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Since the death of my father four years ago, our lives have become difficult, and I must help my family.
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I was born in Mount Kisco, New York-although my family was living in the Bronx at the time. That's just where I decided to be born.
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With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again.
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There's a lot of, you know, kind of train wreck TV reality shows out there. And I think Tori & Dean is a great show that really focuses on family, focuses on couples to show that everyone can watch together and enjoy. And that's what makes me the most proud.
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My sister and I - growing up, it was just the two of us, so we love that we're getting a big family and, you know, lots to be grateful for.
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You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.
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There is nothing else to do in my life... I have no family, relationships - this is the only thing that I do.
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Nobody wants to sell their child, but what they wind up doing is selling their child to be able to support their family.
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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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Our country's history is a generation-spanning journey to effectuate the notion that 'all men are created equal' for the members of our ever-expanding national family: women, African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, gays and lesbians, the disabled, immigrants, and refugees.
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I think culture is where things change in us deeply. But right now, I think that people are very traumatised. They are very scared. Having grown up in a house with a perpetrator who was violent every day and terrorising every day, I feel like that this country is suddenly very much like the house and the family I grew up in. Every day we are glued to our phones, glued to our television; "What is this psychopath going to do next? How will he embarrass us? Who will he bully or hurt or humiliate today? It's so easy to get locked into a syndrome where the perpetrator is ruling your life.
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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Of course, the morning, every morning, was full of such incidents. That was family life. They were all able to get through the day without receiving any particular wounds; every such thing left its tiny scar, but their infant skins healed with wonderful quickness.
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I don't know what it's like to not work; my family embedded that in me.
