Family Quotes - Page 58

Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back.

I am really good about compartmentalizing and treating my family as one thing and the show or whatever my job as a secondary thing.

We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway.

Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.

LOVE should be the very heart of FAMILY life.

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true.

You have to defend your honor. And your family.

I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio, Valentino, De Niro, Giuliani. . .

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

Three-quarters of my family is Irish. Of course, the "Kazee" is not.

It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

Invest in your work life balance. Time with friends and family is as important as times at work. Getting that out of balance is a path toward unhappiness.

As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole-the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives - you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.

We ought to encourage our children to know their relatives. We need to talk of them, make effort to correspond with them, visit them, join family organizations, etc.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

The way Disney characters move, they're very kind of slow and fluid and flowing; one pose kind of eases into the next. If you look at a show like 'The Simpsons' and subsequently a show like 'Family Guy' - the characters will jerk from pose to pose a lot, a bit more snappy. Which sort of goes along with the writing tone of the show.

Tennis just a game, family is forever.

I want someone honest, someone who's very sweet to my family and friends, and polite to the other people around me.

We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.