Family Quotes

"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him."

"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."

"With all my fans I got a family again."

"I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually."

"I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it."

"Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way."

"I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you."

"Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters."

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."

"Don't worry about the pressure or the responsibility. Just live in it, have fun, and when everything seems to be going right, just stay humble and remember your family."

"I don't even call them fans. I don't like that. They're literally just a part of my life; they're a part of my family. I don't think of them as on a lower level than me. I don't think I'm anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they're basically all of my siblings."

"Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness."

"I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it's lasting me very well."

"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands."

"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present."

"In family relationships, 'love' is really spelled 't-i-m-e,' time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home."

"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

"As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live."

"Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family."

"We are one people; we are only family. And when we finally accept these truths, then we will be able to fulfill Dr. King's dream to build a beloved community, a nation, and a world at peace with itself."

"God has established three institutions within human society: the family, the state, and the church. Each institution has a sphere of authority with jurisdictional limits that must be respected."

"All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race."

"This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed."

"Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life."

"A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase."

"A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know."

"The Sabbath provides a wonderful opportunity to strengthen family ties."

"If I ask you, 'What do you want out of life?' and you say something like, 'I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like,' it's so ubiquitous that it doesn't even mean anything. Everyone wants that."

"The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation."

"You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family."

"All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later."

"Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but I think civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses."

"My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family."

"I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage."

"My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family."

"Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers."

"I just live life. I grew up in a Christian family, but, you know, the way Mom brought me up is to, you know, do you, to always be yourself."

"I got family members that's police officers. I don't got no problem if you a cop, as long as y'all doing y'all job, and y'all not harassing."

"I am just happy to be part of the Nike family."

"Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice."

"Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom."

"I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don't seem to be able to get any closer, and that's the problem."

"I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong."

"Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now."

"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."

"There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them."

"In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me."

"Our nation was not founded because we all looked alike, or prayed alike, or descended from the same family tree. But our founders, in their genius, in this, the oldest constitutional democracy, put forth on this earth the idea that all are created equal; that we all have inalienable rights."

"I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there."

"My family is from Kokomo, Indiana."