Family Life Quotes - Page 6

• 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 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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• I have a great family, I live an amazing life.

  John Oates

  Family, Amazing Life, Great Family

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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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• So sweet and precious is family life.

  James McBride

  Sweet

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• I've worked in almost every other place in Canada except Toronto, funny enough, where my husband's from. The first time I was here it was winter, and I got engaged. The second time I was here it was summer, and I was married. My family lives here, my stepson lives here, so it's a wonderful place. Everyone's very nice and hospitable, unlike Hollywood.

  Tori Spelling

  Summer, Husband, Nice

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• It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Survived

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• Fundamental relationships are being called into question, as is the very basis of marriage and the family. I can only reiterate the importance and, above all, the richness and the beauty of family life.

  Pope Francis

  Fundamentals, Congress, Importance

  Address to a Joint Meeting of the U.S. Congress, delivered 24 September 2015, Washington, D.C.

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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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• The welfare state corrupts family life. Even Democrats have acknowledged the destructive consequences of the welfare state on the underclass. It has rendered vast numbers of male unnecessary to females, who have looked to the state to support them and their children (and the more children, the more state support) rather than to husbands. In effect, these women took the state as their husband.

  Dennis Prager

  Children, Husband, Numbers

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• No one attached to the traditional image of authoritarian patriarchy could imagine the consternation men endure. They have suffered an unexpected blow to the emotional quality of their lives. Its gravity has not been calculated. They have far fewer reliable links than women to the classic currents of family life. They are alienated not only, as Marx said, from the means of production but also from the means of reproduction.

  Lionel Tiger

  Mean, Men, Emotional

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• War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.

  Rick Warren

  War, Exercise, Community

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• Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view. You look at life's difficulties and tests as God looks at them. You look at family life and child rearing as God looks at them. You interpret current events as God would interpret them. You see the truth even though all around you are deception and lies.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Children, Lying, Views

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Great Days with the Great Lives: Daily Insight from Great Lives of the Bible”, p.270, Thomas Nelson

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• Sometimes the most powerful way to teach our children to understand a doctrine is to teach in the context of what they are experiencing right at that moment. These moments are spontaneous and unplanned and happen in the normal flow of family life. They come and go quickly, so we need to be alert and recognize a teaching moment when our children come to us with a question or a worry.

  Cheryl A. Esplin

  Children, Powerful, Teaching

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• Without conjuring up fantasies of bygone eras with family games and long, leisurely meals, the question arises: isn't there a better family life available than this dismal, mechanized arrangement of children watching television for however long is allowed them, evening after evening?

  Marie Winn

  Children, Games, Long

  Marie Winn (2002). “The Plug-in Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life”, Penguin Group USA

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• The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.

  Christopher Lasch

  Independent, Wish, Comfort

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• The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

  Laozi

  Thinking, Simple, Dwelling

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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 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 come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

  Sidney Poitier

  Family, Wonderful, Nurturing

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• I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my life. I was one person at home and then another person at work and for that reason my career didn't challenge my family life.

  Brooke Shields

  New York, Home, School

  "Brooke Shields: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

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• I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.

  Hope Solo

  Fighter, Being The Best, Strive

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• Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

  Freya Stark

  Art, Ingredients, Absence

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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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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