884 private quotes tagged family

“The family is the school of duties - founded on love.” — Felix Adler

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“My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.” — Charles Barkley

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“We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.” — Walt Disney

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“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.” — John Ruskin

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“Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.” — Erma Bombeck

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“My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.” — Kelly Clarkson

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“If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.” — Tupac Shakur

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“All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.” — Chaim Potok

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“Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.” — Jodi Picoult

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“You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.” — Carly Fiorina

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“Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.” — Willard Scott

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“To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.” — Pope John Paul II

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“Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.” — Oliver Hudson

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“With all my fans I got a family again.” — Tupac Shakur

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“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.” — Douglas Adams

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“Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.” — Gracie Allen

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“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” — Margaret Sanger

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“On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.” — Bobby Jindal

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“When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.” — Guy Lafleur

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“I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first.” — Julianne Hough

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“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.” — Patrick Henry

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“My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.” — Joel Osteen

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“As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.” — Chanakya

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“My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.” — Michelle Obama

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“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.” — Andre Maurois

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