My Family Quotes

Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I’ve heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.

This is my family. I found it, all on my own. It's little, and broken, but still good. Yeah, still good.

A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances.

A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.

I come from a family of communist nudists. I was allowed to do or not do what I liked. My parents were not interested in whether I went to school or got drunk on white wine.

My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.

One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.

It's good to learn early that every show is a family - -complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness.

Why should it be easy to do something that, if done well, two or three times, will make your family rich for life?

Many a family tree needs trimming

I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.

This is an old family secret, and I just found this out recently, and it almost broke my heart. My mother said to me, 'I had never told you this, but God, you were an ugly baby'.

My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.

I've been vegetarian for so long now that I don't remember anything different, so it's easy for me to put meals together and make sure my family is eating healthy, too.

Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I'm going to be married and buried there.

I've learned that a family can have little glitches without being labeled dysfunctional.

I work with wonderful people who support me. And, my beliefs are that the business needs to serve the family rather than the family serve the business.

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

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.

Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.

After divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law. -Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico carere oportere

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.

We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.

The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.

Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.

Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

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.

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

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

Adults are just children who earn money.

I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.

My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I spend a lot of my spare time with my family playing tennis, biking and rollerblading.

I hope we will be able to have a happy family ourselves.

I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?

There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.

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.

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

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.

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

I model my life after my Lord and Master Jesus Christ and his life. He has called me into God's family and I am a representative for him so I just try to be obedient to what He asks me to do.