Family Quotes (5907 Quotes)

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Me, my family, went through hell and back. It should have been handled differently. I'm glad it's over. I can put my (World Series) ring back on with pride now.

Dory I suffer from short term memory loss. It runs in my family... At least I think it does... Where are they

I thought it could make a really cool movie set in the South about this family. People are really familiar with these characters.

My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

(Salary) certainly is one point of dissatisfaction with teachers and although money is not why someone enters the profession, it is an issue. Teachers need to be able to pay their bills and support their families.

My family are very proud of me, but I am very proud of them and where they come from. I am proud that they come from Kabylie. It is a special place.

Almeyda is a player I thought would have done a good job for us. But he has decided to stay in Argentina because of family problems and we have to respect his decision and move on.

The only way I could describe it -- the full effect -- is like having a death in the family. The entire family was ripped apart.

When so many working parents rely on child care and single parents have no means, no family, safe transportation is our responsibility.

We watched films and knew we would have some success with the running plays that we used in the past against them, ... I think overall this is the best team we've played so far. We're in the same position we were in last year. We need to win the last six. Me being a senior, I want to be able to say they we went 7-3. We've all grown up playing together and it's almost a family attitude more than friendships. The seniors won't give up and it's up to the underclassmen to follow.

The thing I'd say about that is that if Alex is a hypocrite, then everyone who is American and has parents of different heritage and wants to be respectful of that is a hypocrite, too. If that's being a hypocrite, then I'd want to be one. Alex was thoughtfully considering a difficult decision and was trying to make the right decision for him and his family.

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains blends yearning and repulsion and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.

I think everything a woman can have wrong in that region, I've had, ... Nothing serious, but I've had problems all my life. And we would like a bigger family.

Americans have been bombarded by charitable requests as a result of the record-breaking number of devastating disasters which have affected families across the globe. While it is important that women secure their financial future for themselves and their families at home, it's also important for women to actively participate as members of our local and global families.

We made a commitment to listen more closely to the families affected and to our own donors, ... With this plan, we are keeping our promise and responding directly to the needs and desires of both.

We hope we are preparing these young individuals to enter the world of agriculture. And for those who choose not to return to the family farm, we hope they will be successful with other skills they learned in this program.

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

It's similar to having a family history for a disease. You can't alter your family history or your baldness, but there are many ways to modify your risk factors,

Now, parents will start to return to the city. I think this symbolizes to a lot of people that, yes, New Orleans is back and will accommodate families.

It was Christmas, and on Christmas gentile Hungarians tend to stay home with their families. I'd say that 80 percent of the crowd was Jewish.

My whole life has been traveling, so it just seems normal to me, ... I'm able to leave on a bus with eight or nine guys, and I feel really comfortable with it. I've always done it. It's heaps of fun. They're all people I get along with really well. They're all my family, my best friends.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

(My priorities are) family, Lord, profession, ... And that's not the order it should be, but I think No. 2 understands.

This office has been and must be held by someone who's a proven people's lawyer, standing up and paying special interest on behalf of consumers, taxpayers and families. That's why in Rochester, today, I'm announcing my candidacy.

Wisconsin Democrats are focused on making life more affordable for our middle-class families, so they can pay for their health care, have a good-paying job and send their kids to college. Whether it is our schools, health care, jobs, energy costs, or the ongoing war in Iraq, one thing is clear When it comes to these priorities, Democrats are on the side of Wisconsin families.

It's become perfectly clear that the big oil companies are cashing in while average American families are being bled dry,

We thank Senator Danforth for his bold leadership and powerful voice for basic fairness for gay and lesbian families.

It feels kind of like a death in your family, ... If it burned down, you would have felt better.

I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide.

I have known the family for 40 years. They are an asset to the community.

I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers.

It's so people know there is a family who does care and has compassion.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

This is not a time for pride. Allow yourself to accept help from others to help you get back on your feet. Help can come from many places, such as governmental and nonprofit agencies, friends, family, neighbors, churches, your employer and co-workers, even strangers.

For many families, energy just will not be affordable this coming winter heating season.

I feel pretty good about (the retirement) because frankly there are not too many guys in my business who can do it. I feel grateful the university has been so good to me and my family. I have a chancellor that has been very supportive of me, and his cooperation on what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it. I think that is very unique to have a situation like that.

It is only necessary to make war with five things with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the flesh, with the seditions of the politic and the discords of families.

It's hard. I have to come back and find my family. It's more than hard. Hard is not the word for it.

The furthest thing from Abraham Lincoln's mind would have been to interfere with the honoring of fallen Confederate soldiers by families, comrades or their ancestors.

This is good news. It's certainly no surprise to us, but it reinforces what we've been saying n we think housing is a good value here. The cost of housing can be one of the largest expenses to families, so it's always good to get more bang for the buck.

The American family is not simply changing it is getting weaker.... Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems.... The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.

If you can keep it together, you can find a way. I've had a tremendous amount of luck, despite all the frustration... I've been able to stay at home, raise a family and live fairly comfortably, not wealthy by any means.

Our men and women in uniform deserve fair financial policies that encourage sound investment options and opportunities to provide for their families.

Steven Brill, an attorney and author of a book on the aftermath of Sept. 11, says Feinberg's chart was certain to offend all families, regardless of income. At the same time that some of the wealthy families are angry at him, the poor families are angry at him too, ... 'How dare Ken Feinberg do that How dare someone put a value on human life that says that my husband and the father of my children is worth one-tenth of what this other person is worth'

The Army guys were kind enough to give us their big theater they have there, and at the end of the rehearsals, we're going to do a show for all of the (soldiers) and their families, ... It's not open to the public. We're just doing anything we can do. Really, it's just any time you can give back to those guys who are out there fighting for our freedom, for God's sakes.

I'm just happy because this is such a great situation for me and my family, ... I know a good fit when I see one and from the time I arrived here in Washington, the organization has made me and my family feel so welcome. I'm excited about knowing that my future will be with this team.

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

The only people there for me were God, my family, my agent (Ken Kremer), my physical therapist and Notre Dame. Having Notre Dame was big because when I was on my couch, unable to walk, I had a few job offers on the table. That was because of Notre Dame alumni.

No one had ever asked young people about the issues they face growing up. I don't think this changes the fact that adults need to be in charge I'm not asking children to run the families of America. . . . But their insight about their lives is actually fairly interesting input into our lives.