Family Quotes - page 5

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. (Erma Bombeck)
I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction. View quote
James Hetfield
I was very much in my own world, never the popular kid. But I had a great family, a great brother and mother. View quote
Jared Leto
Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility. View quote
Dan Quayle
Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight, When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight. View quote
Isaac Watts
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. View quote
Vince Lombardi
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. View quote
Ogden Nash
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. View quote
Toni Morrison
I'm totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I was in treatment. But it was just odd, you know? It's stressful. Just the whole fact of being someone in the public eye. View quote
Jack Osbourne
A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness' sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat. View quote
John Selden
Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household. (Wilhelm von Humboldt)
He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath. View quote
Franz Kafka
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. View quote
Quentin Crisp
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. View quote
Laozi
I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage. View quote
Sachin Tendulkar
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. View quote
Calvin Trillin
There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream. View quote
Colum McCann
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives. View quote
John Ralston Saul
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. View quote
Pope John Paul II
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. View quote
Pope John Paul II
The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other. (Mario Puzo)
Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone. View quote
Mario Puzo
Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day. View quote
Mark Haddon
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. View quote
Marcelene Cox
I'll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. View quote
Matt Groening