Family Quotes · Page 217

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

— Aristotle

My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

— Ben Harper

When I was a kid and my dad played, I always wanted to be like him and it might run in the…

— Nikola Vucevic

You don't turn your back on family, even when they turn thier back on you.

— Mario Tomasello

I don't drink a lot. My family calls me an old soul. And my friends call me a pussy.

— Mike Birbiglia

“In a true sense, the world is not to be won. The home (family) needs to be won.”

— Dada Bhagwan

My children have blessed my life in more ways than imaginable.

— Brii Ann

My generation of women was the last for whom marriage and a family were the goal.

— Jane Hawking

I believe everything is energy. I believe that the meal you serve yourself, you prepare, is energy. And if you serve it…

— Maya Angelou

“If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.”

— David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote…

— Brent Runyon

I believe the Democratic Party has got to be firmly on the side of working families, taking on the big money interests,…

— Bernie Sanders

My wife and family, to say the least, are the center of my life; they are my grounding. I don't want to…

— Bill de Blasio

Many of my colleagues are blissfully unaware of the global percentage of people who cannot EVER go to a movie theater, let…

— Lexi Alexander

My family were staunch believers in physical violence, not automatic violence, and we had a Safeway around the corner, so we never…

— Laurie Notaro

Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Why am I not a household name in Britain? Why have I not got the recognition I deserve after so long? I…

— Joe Calzaghe

“You buy so little and ask for even less, which makes me want to spoil you. That’s not how I grew up,…

— N.D. Jones

Over the years I have forged intimate familial ties with these characters, who are reflections of a portion of myself. Consequently, even…

— Shusaku Endo

But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and…

— Bernice Weissbourd

“In 1951, thousands of whites in Cicero, 20 minutes or so west of downtown Chicago, attacked an apartment building that housed a…

— Anonymous

Each family functions in their own way, by rules reinvented daily. The strangeness of each of us is somehow accommodated so that…

— Niall Williams

I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of…

— Shaun White

As a child, I was fortunate enough to be close to family members who were - and still are - great storytellers.…

— Jesse L. Martin

Parents and families know best, and they should be in control of their individual child's education.

— Katie Britt

We were always a middle-class family who took pride in our little set-up.

— Ali Fazal

I'm a family guy, I've got a beautiful wife, a beautiful son, and I couldn't be happier.

— Max Holloway

My father is sort of the jokester. My dad is still the funniest guy in our family.

— Seth Meyers

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

— Robert Kennedy

“Something to look forward to after we left Creepy Castle with its (mostly) Foul Family.”

— Kristen Ashley

I grew up in the U.K. and now reside in the United States, and my family is from Ghana.

— Philomena Kwao

Last time I checked, you don't invite everyone to your family reunion. You only invite your family.

— Anonymous

It's a great honor to represent my family and where I'm from always.

— Ronald Acuna Jr

My main job and my overwhelming job starts with my family, my street, my neighborhood, and my city.

— Eric Garcetti

As sisters in Zion, we can be obstacles to the adversary's conspiracy against families and virtue.

— Sheri L. Dew

You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.

— Adam Hamilton

“What I love most about my home is who I share it with.”

— Tad Carpenter

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness

— Andre Gide

I always saw myself working for the family business.

— Stephanie McMahon

As far as possible, everyone in the family should eat together.

— Mata Amritanandamayi