Family Quotes (5907 Quotes)

I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.

Our focus as a family is to make sure we are by his side day in and day out. I will not allow any politics to enter his hospital room or our thoughts as a family.

We want to do everything in our power to make things easier for them, ... When you join law enforcement, you become part of a close family. You all take the same oath to do the same job, and you all pitch in to help each other.

I have never heard of a funeral which is conducted at night, in the backyard of the family home and without the presence of the family.

Gang members in general are becoming more violent, more sophisticated in their organization and technology and are creating many more problems for our youngsters and our families.

Obviously, it's a tragedy for the family and friends of this individual. Train tracks are not places for shortcuts and recreation. It's a very unforgiving environment.

All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.

I'm blessed to get paid well as it is. Usually, these types of things take time. Time is more precious to me than the money. I get more time to spend with the family.

I love to go out there and look at those bricks and imagine the stories behind them. There are bricks out there that clearly have secret messages and hidden messages to those who they are for, and there are some there for their family.

My family is more important than my party.

No question about it. We will get the best of Quinton. We have got that all year long. I think everybody likes to play in front of their home crowd and their own people. There's about 150 of them out here that are his family. He's got a big family and he's very excited about this game. We will definitely get his best shot.

It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.

After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.

I just think its so important for people to know their history and to know where they came from. It helps you understand yourself better and it gives you a clearer perception of your life and your family.

Then we lost a child, there was that incident, a four year-old little girl. It had a profound effect on me and on Barbara. You know, ... when you lose a child some families go apart. There's a common wisdom that the loss of a loved one for parents divides them later on. People cite divorce statistics. In our case it was just the other way around. And our family has been close, close, close. And Barbara and I have been married for over 50 years, and I think that horrible incident drew us even closer together.

Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.

When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?

To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

I'm glad it's over it's a long season. It was definitely well worth it, but now it's time to rest and spend time with my family.

We are planning to make the package attractive by offering free admission to the park, maybe once a year, for the families of members.

I thank family, friends and Dad's former colleagues in this past difficult year.

I think every person is their own person to an extent, but I think a lot of my opinions are shared in my family. Very often I'll bounce things off them. My family often acts as a conscience to me, and I think I represent a lot of the things in my family. I just happen to be the one that went in this direction.

A lot of people say we should revise the tax code to raise more revenue. Overall, I'm more moderate. We have to keep our revenue and expenditures in line with our growth. It is like a family check book. Our spending must be within our means. It sounds simple, but it is a philosophy that escapes many people at the State House.

The study of music was a family interest.

If I had 10 more hours in each day, I would spend more time with my husband, my friends and my family. I would take singing and painting lessons.

I wish we could replace a family pet. That can't be done, but, short of that, we want to do everything we can to make that as bearable as possible for the customer.

It is not better for America to do nothing about an immigration system that hurts families, hampers businesses, and harms communities.

I'm the only guy in my family, including our cats and dogs. I'm surrounded by these amazing women, and I have concerns about what happens to them in the world,

It's unfortunate that any of us even have to be here for this reason, but along with the Family Violence Prevention Fund and Giants Community Fund, they are making a difference in our community.

This trial was not about putting a monetary value on Randy Moon's life. It was about closure for the family. They wanted a jury to decide if their son died because of the carelessness of the driver - and the jury made its decision.

The format of playing just one game a day makes this trip so much more attractive to our players' families. There's the beach, the various amusement parks and the weather. It's all good in San Diego.

We miss him tremendously, and there is nothing we could ever do to replace him. But now we're helping someone who really needed a family.

The local community has been really wonderful. They really embraced us and we're an extended family.

I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don't want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families.

We're helping people see that gay and lesbian couples go to the same things as any other families.

This terrible loss is a reminder that we can never take for granted the sacrifice of heroes. We extend our condolences to the families of these American patriots and their decorated Israeli colleague at this time of profound sadness.

A spokeswoman at St. Rita's Church in Alexandria said parishioners were told of the child's death during the morning Mass. After the efforts of this summer to bring her into the world, this is obviously a devastating loss for the Torres and Rollin families, ... We wish to thank all the people who sustained us in prayer over the past 17 weeks. It was our fondest wish that we could have been able to share Susan's homecoming with the world.

The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the internet and the subsequent flowering of genealogical research. This obsession with roots will be felt especially keenly by foundlings, who often have no way of exploring their family histories. I notice that genealogical sites now have warnings on them saying people should be ready for little surprises, ... They're not all going to find themselves descended from King Henry VIII or Richard Cur de Lion or Wellington. This is rather strange because it was pretty taken for granted a few generations ago that families had all kinds of little moments where things had gone not according to the book. It was just one of those things. You tried to accommodate it. There was no social welfare. You just had to sort it out within villages, the families, the parish. Children went to the workhouse, but people knew about it. Nowadays, there's a kind of surprise that these cases were so commonplace.

The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.

A lot of people who come in are families, whether they're participating in it or not.

You've got plenty of time to do a lot of thinking, believe me. Probably for the most part, you're thinking about your family. You want to get back to them as soon as you can.

He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants to be treated like a member of the Royal Family.

They need to know about the watershed. What better way to understand it than to be immersed into that environment Kids who live along the creek show an interest and that trickles into their family.

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.

The Auerbach family expresses their deepest appreciation for the concern pertaining to the health of their father. Red has been under the weather at times recently and he has taken steps with his doctor to return to feeling better. The family asks that you please respect their privacy during this time.

Do not begin by selecting a camp. That's putting the cart before the horse. Instead, begin with a self-evaluation. Your family should sit down and consider a lot of other things before you even start thinking about which camp to choose.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

It's easy to point fingers at CU or the drinking laws. But no matter how many interventions the university or the legislature try to make, the system is not being fixed. I can tell you this guy has a well put-together family.