Family Life Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• When you had the World Trade Center go, people were put into planes that were friends, family, girlfriends, and they were put into planes and they were sent back, for the most part, to Saudi Arabia. I would be very, very firm with families. Frankly, that will make people think because they may not care much about their lives, but they do care, believe it or not, about their families' lives.

  Donald Trump

  Girlfriend, Believe, Thinking

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there's rarely a man involved which is kind of weird.

  Amy Winehouse

  Kids, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss publicly in detail the most intimate aspects of personal life, while maintaining an almost prudish reserve concerning the political significance of family life.

  Mary Ann Glendon

  Political, Doubt, Details

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• The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

  Samuel Smiles

  Home, School, Discipline

  Samuel Smiles (1881). “Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance”

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• The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

  Randall Jarrell

  Dark, World, Succeed

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• To have all my dear ones together under one roof - that is all I ask of life.

  D.E. Stevenson

  Family, Dear Ones, Together

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• How do we handle adversity? Adversity is going to be with us in everything that we do, almost in every facet of our lives-in our personal associations, in the mission field, in our chosen professions, in our families.

  LaVell Edwards

  Life, Adversity, Association

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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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• I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.

  Anne Roiphe

  Family, Sex, Disappointment

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• Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

  L. Neil Smith

  Groups, Sometimes, Individual

  "To Reduce Them Under Absolute Despotism". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. May 02, 2010.

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• Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Family, Running, Law

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1956). “A harvest of stories, from a half century of writing”

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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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• 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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• Promotion of health generally by improving the standard of living. From the health point of view we are in this connexion first and foremost interested in the three fundamental environmental factors: housing (including family life), nutrition, and working conditions (including human relations as well as material conditions).

  Karl Evang

  Views, Environmental Factors, Firsts

  Karl Evang (1960). “Health service, society, and medicine: present day health services in their relation to medical science and social structures”

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• What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously than hectic schedules and busy lives, where spouses are too exhausted to communicate, too worn out to have sex, too fatigued to talk to the kids. That frantic lifestyle is just as destructive as one involving outbroken sin. If Satan can't make you sin, he'll make you busy, and that's just about the same thing.

  James Dobson

  Sex, Stress, Kids

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• My parents always talk about Puerto Rico. My dad's whole family lives in Puerto Rico. My great grandma lives in Puerto Rico and I got to meet her a couple years ago.

  Danny Garcia

  Couple, Dad, Grandma

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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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• 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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• Within twenty years, he was the world's biggest movie star, the husband of Maria Shriver, and an emerging Republican leader who was part of the Kennedy family.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Stars, Husband, Kennedy Family

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• All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Family, Life Is, Organized

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• The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Children, Secret, Tears

  Joyce Carol Oates (2013). “The Accursed: A Novel”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Emotional, Productive Work

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• I didn't miss out on a family life because of racing. I had one because of it.

  Richard Petty

  Missing, Racing

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• God is not calling us to win the world and, in the process, lose our families. But I have known those who so enshrined family life and were so protective of "quality time" that the children never saw in their parents the kind of consuming love that made their parent's faith attractive to them. Some have lost their children, note because they weren't at their soccer games or didn't take family vacations, but because they never transmitted a loyalty to Jesus that went deep enough to interrupt personal preferences.

  David Shibley

  Soccer, Loyalty, Jesus

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