Famous Quotes
- It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.
- King Abdullah II on Family
- It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
- Philip Green on Family
- It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!
- Jordin Sparks on Family
- It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
- Patricia Heaton on Family
- It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
- It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.
- Martha Plimpton on Family
- It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.
- Elizabeth Gilbert on Family
- It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.
- Martha Plimpton on Family
- It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.
- Dave Eggers on Family
- It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.
- Jeffrey Kluger on Family
- It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.
- Caroline Kennedy on Family
- It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
- It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
- Doug Coupland on Family
- Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
- Pope John XXIII on Family
- Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.
- Jonathan Sacks on Family
- Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
- Kofi Annan on Family
- Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
- Earl Nightingale on Family
- Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
- Ulysses S. Grant on Family
- Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.
- Donald Rumsfeld on Family
- Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
- Harry Browne on Family
- Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.
- Donald Rumsfeld on Family
- Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.
- Christopher Lasch on Family
- Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
- Dennis Prager on Family
- Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.
- Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
- Imelda Marcos on Family
- Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.
- Elizabeth Warren on Family
- Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
- Queen Elizabeth II on Family
- Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
- Agnes Smedley on Family
- Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
- Billy Joel on Family
- Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
- Erma Bombeck on Family
- Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
- George Eliot on Family
- Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
- Hans-Georg Gadamer on Family
- Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.
- Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.
- Christian Bale on Family
- Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
- Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
- Joseph Joubert on Family
- Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.
- Richard G. Scott on Family
- Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.
- Jonathan Sacks on Family
- Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.
- Bruce Barton on Family
- Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
- Pope John Paul II on Family
- Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.
- Jim Carrey on Family
- Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
- T. E. Lawrence on Family
- Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.
- Eric McCormack on Family
- Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.
- Julie Burchill on Family
- More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.
- Joyce Maynard on Family
- Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.'
- Tony Campolo on Family
- Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
- Christopher Lasch on Family
- Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
- Orlando Bloom on Family
- Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
- Eddie Vedder on Family
- My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.
- Joel Osteen on Family
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