Family Quotes - Page 47

If you are bitter, it will eat you up and do you much more damage than the people who have hurt you

I've been lucky enough to be surrounded by close friends and family and they've definitely kept me grounded.

My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.

My family thought if I spent time in the military, I'd become more reasonable, a bit calmer. But I've always been extreme in what I do - both as a believer and a nonbeliever.

Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.

The single most important thing in my life is God. The second most important thing in my life is my family and the third thing is the great profession that I chose. I chose to do something that I love. I never had to work a day in my life.

In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage.

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.

I don't know what it feels like not to have a great family support system - I was lucky to have that.

My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.

I'm just excited about life. Life is really good right now with my family and friends, and being able to work with people I respect.

Kids are the best part of my day. I don't wake up to make movies. I wake up to hang out with my family.

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.

You have your vision and you need to be focused, but you have to listen. I never felt a sense that the wheels were going to come off because we're all friends and family. It was all good.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Serbian history tells that family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.

My family comes first before anything, they are everything to me.

I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel.

We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.