Quotes about family
family family-love lovely
Isn't she lovely made from love? Stevie Wonder
family italian heritage
I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio, Valentino, De Niro, Giuliani. . . Susan Lucci
family people dysfunctional-family
People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind. Sue Grafton
family football careers
I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30 Robbie Savage
family baby wife
The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway. Sammy Hagar
family government essentials
[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to the well-being of a family. Samuel Adams
family vocabulary-words honor
You have to defend your honor. And your family. Suzanne Vega
family-and-friends want lasts
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. Suze Orman
family mom food
Food became the antidote for feelings of guilt, sadness, and anger. ... Food is a resolution to controversy; food is rescue. We ate and talked and cried and laughed in the kitchen and ate again. This was about more than just food. It was about our mom making connections the best she could and in the way she knew best across the kitchen table, across time and across sadness.
family passion life-is-like
They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral. Rose Macaulay
family justice spirit
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. Reinhold Niebuhr
family cousin giving-up
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. Rick Riordan
family broken missing
Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken? Trenton Lee Stewart
family blood remember
You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't 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.
family men bottles
My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle. Tracy Chapman
family born defined
We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become. Tori Spelling
family children laughing
One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still. Robert Green Ingersoll
family children kids
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. Sting
family eye thinking
Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.
family eye zest
You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can prowl in old trunks of letters by the day with undiminished zest. Rutherford B. Hayes
family inspiring women
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
family nuts tree
Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts. Wayne Huizenga
family children acceptance
By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away. Wayne Dyer
family spring secret
One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside a family you have neither. Tove Jansson
family honor dignity
Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family. Vartan Gregorian
family dad gun
Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad, get me out of this. Warren Zevon
family father mama
Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life. Wyclef Jean
family baby sweet
With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state. Wyndham Lewis
family smile relatives-and-friends
There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street. Willie Stargell
family fathers-day wisdom
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. William Penn
family children world
If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.
family mothers-day god
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. William Makepeace Thackeray
family friends home
People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace. Zig Ziglar