Family Quotes - page 3

I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families. (Victoria Gotti)
In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world. View quote
Gordon Korman
If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence. View quote
David McCallum
Early intervention programs enrich adverse family environments. The largest effects of the early intervention programs are on noncognitive traits. Now, what do I mean by that? I mean perseverance, motivation, self-esteem, and hard work. View quote
James Heckman
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time. View quote
Christopher Lasch
A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction. View quote
Christopher Lasch
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Family is not an important thing, it's everything. View quote
Michael Fox
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. View quote
Charles Alexander Eastman
I would like to grow less afraid of dying. I am infinitely less afraid today than I was 15 or 25 years ago. I was most afraid of dying when I was 33, because I come from a Catholic family. View quote
Sidney Poitier
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. (Kofi Annan)
To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives. View quote
John Forbes Nash
Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Peace is all of these and more and more. View quote
Menachem Begin
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. View quote
George Eliot
I am the family face Flesh perishes, I live on, Projecting trait and trace Through time to times anon, And leaping from place to place Over oblivion. View quote
Thomas Hardy
I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share. View quote
Mohamed ElBaradei
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species. View quote
J. Philippe Rushton
I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again. View quote
Cat Stevens
The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men. View quote
Adam Weishaupt
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. View quote
Edmund Burke
Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family But not much in between unless a college. (Robert Frost)
There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants my violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected. View quote
Madeleine Albright
The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting. View quote
Gertrude Stein
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?' View quote
Gertrude Stein
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries. View quote
Gary Becker
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