My Family Quotes

As you get older, you have your tribe of women that you grow and age gracefully with and you share wisdom with. That's your clan. That's your family. That's your strength.

I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.

The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

Lord, this humble house we'd keep Sweet with play and calm with sleep. Help us so that we may give Beauty to the lives we live. Let Thy love and let Thy grace Shine upon our dwelling place.

My family thought if I spent time in the military, I'd become more reasonable, a bit calmer. But I've always been extreme in what I do - both as a believer and a nonbeliever.

Family photos, pictures of groups, those are truely wonderful. And they are just as good as the old masters, just as rich and just as beautifully composed (what does that mean anyway).

I do not come from a rich family, but I come from a really good family.

Family is fun, way more fun than music.

You're married, and suddenly you have your own family. There's a nice comfort in that. That part of your life is certain ... You've got your home in that other person.

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.

From 1971 to 1993 my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself.

I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

I want you [Sarah Palin] to know you have my support. But please look into protection for your family. An attempt on you could bring the republic down.

I don't have to rap in a stadium. As long as I can provide for my family and my art, and live comfortably and live well, then I'm good. And with my talent level and my skill level, I'll get there.

All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.

With gifts, you may gather your enemies about you. When giving nothing, even your own family will leave.

My riches are my family and my foster children. I try to store any material wealth in my hand, not my heart, so that I always feel free to give it away when the opportunity arises.

I grew up in a big ol' Latin family, so that's all the music we used to play - salsa music. We'd always dance and have fun. You know how families get down, man! We just had fun with it.

Good strong banks are essential for every family and for every business in the country and extraordinary times call for the bold and far-reaching solutions that the Treasury has announced today.

In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.

In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.

Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress.

Throughout the world, the family is increasingly under attack. If families fail, many of our political, economic, and social systems will also fail.

I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.

That is definitely the biggest challenge, career and family, and learning how to balance.

I am a true psychic. In my family it's the norm. My sister and mother are always 'in my head' and say or do the same things I'm doing at the same time.

People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.

We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.

My family comes first before anything, they are everything to me.

Just stand up for your principals and be loyal to your friends and family.

You have your vision and you need to be focused, but you have to listen. I never felt a sense that the wheels were going to come off because we're all friends and family. It was all good.

42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.

There's nothing like having grandchildren to restore your faith in humanity.

However we are, however we think we ought to be in prayer, the fact is we just need to show up and do the best we can do. It’s like being in a family.

I'm just excited about life. Life is really good right now with my family and friends, and being able to work with people I respect.

I don't know what it feels like not to have a great family support system - I was lucky to have that.

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.

I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion.

Love is the ultimate state of human being where compassion prevails and kindness rules.

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.

You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy.

Every member of my family was displaced by Katrina.

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.

My Kashubian family, like the Jews, are people who were born and live in border areas and were suspected by the Nazis and by the Communists of being disloyal.

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.