Family Life Quotes - Page 5

• Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Beautiful, Beach, Community

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• What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out.

  Ice Cube

  Careers, Wings, House

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• When we have sampled much and have wandered far and have seen how fleeting and sometimes superficial a lot of the world is, our gratitude grows for the privilege of being part of something we can count on-home and family and the loyalty of loved ones. We come to know what it means to be bound together by duty, by respect, by belonging. We learn that nothing can fully take the place of the blessed relationship of family life.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Loyalty, Gratitude, Blessed

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• Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Purpose

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• I want to stress again the importance of really living what we claim to believe. That needs to be a priority-not just in our personal and family lives but in our churches, our political choices, our business dealings, our treatment of the poor; in other words, in everything we do.

  Charles J. Chaput

  Stress, Believe, Choices

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• Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.

  Ronald Reagan

  Life, Family, Success

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• Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was determined to reform family life on Roman, or perhaps rather on Corsican, principles. It was with him, not with Queen Victoria, that Victorian morality originated.

  J. Christopher Herold

  Queens, Principles, Reform

  J. Christopher Herold (1983). “The Horizon book of the age of Napoleon”, Harmony

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• Liberals and conservatives disagree over what are the most important sins. For conservatives, the sins that matter are personal irresponsibility, the flight from family life, sexual permissiveness, the failure of individuals to work hard. For liberals, the gravest sins are intolerance, a lack of generosity toward the needy, narrow-mindedness toward social and racial minorities.

  E. J. Dionne

  Hard Work, Generosity, Important

  E.J. Dionne (2013). “Why Americans Hate Politics”, p.554, Simon and Schuster

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• The myth of self-sufficiency blinds us to the workings of other forces in family life. For families are not now, nor were they ever, the self-sufficient building blocks of society, exclusively responsible, praiseworthy, and blamable for their own destiny. They are deeply influenced by broad social and economic forces over which they have little control.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Block, Destiny, Self

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• It is misleading to discuss recent changes in family life without emphasizing the fact that for generations some Americans have had to raise children under particularly appalling pressures. Although much of what is worrying American parents is shared by them all, the most grievous problems are those that especially afflict a large minority--the poor, the nonwhite and, in various ways, the parents of handicapped children.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Children, Worry, Parent

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Women who bring up children by themselves do it heroically, they do it against all odds, men who don't feel responsible for being part of their child's life create real strains on that family.

  Jeb Bush

  Life, Children, Real

  "Jeb Bush: 'I'm not in favor of shaming women'" by Betsy Klein, www.cnn.com. June 17, 2015.

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• We have put our country on solid ground, but let me tell you: The next five years are much, much more important. The next five years are about turning the good news in our economy into a good life for you and your family.

  David Cameron

  Life, Country, Years

  "David Cameron Manifesto Speech in Full". www.politics.co.uk. April 14, 2015.

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• American family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of one of their parents.... Not until the sixties did the chief cause of separation of parents shift from death to divorce.

  Richard Louv

  Family, Children, Divorce

  Richard Louv (1990). “Childhood's Future”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One thing that happens often times in family life is that people think maybe the challenge you are having with a child when they are a teenager or even in adolescence that this is going to go on forever and it doesn't. They get to their 20s, they change dramatically in their 20s. So sometimes it's just holding on for the ride, and just being there and holding on for the ride.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, Teenager, Thinking

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• I must try to be alone for part of each year...and part of each day...in order to keep my core, my center...Women must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities. She must be the pioneer of achieving this stillness, not only for her own salvation, but for the salvation of family life, of society, perhaps even of our civilization.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Mom, Order, Years

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• Grandparents...can give the children unity of family life and some knowledge of their own family history.

  Jim Conway

  Children, Giving, Grandparent

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• My family lives all around me. We see each other daily. It's very, very complicated. I think that families hold us together and they split us apart.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Thinking, Together, Splits

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• I am a Muslim. I am a practising Muslim. I don't - i accept proper relationship with a man and woman and the family life. It is not our business to knock at every door and checking people's orientation and casting aspersions or having prejudice against people.

  Anwar Ibrahim

  Men, Doors, People

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I'm an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn't just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.

  Michael Caine

  Blood, Looks, Emotion

  "Q & A: Oscar-Winning Michael Caine Asks “Is Anybody There?”". Interview with Brad Balfour,, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2009.

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• If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?

  Benjamin Harrison

  Book, Taken, Together

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• The wheel [migration] has been spinning and spinning and spinning. Wouldn't it be nice to imagine a world where that circle stops spinning in that crazy way? Because that's a huge wheel that's crushing people's lives, real people's lives, families.

  Ruben Martinez

  Crush, Crazy, Real

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I had from childhood not only the experience of love and truth common to all family life, but the idea of them embodied in the person of Jesus, a picture always present to our imagination as well as our feelings.

  Joyce Cary

  Life, Jesus, Truth

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.82, New Directions Publishing

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• Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions.

  Alan Keyes

  Thinking, Joy, Satisfaction

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• I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What's more, this is a cynical arrangement our institutions have colluded to conceal.

  Sylvia Fraser

  Children, Father, Reality

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• I go home to London in between jobs, and in London, my life has nothing to do with the business. It's a family life, hanging with friends.

  Clive Owen

  Jobs, Home, London

  Interview with RZA, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 28, 2015.

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