Our Family Quotes - Page 14

• The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

  Stephen Covey

  Spiritual, Roots, World

  Stephen R. Covey (1973). “Spiritual roots of human relations”

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• When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies...

  Robert Kennedy

  Brother, Jobs, Hate

  Robert F. Kennedy's Speech On the Mindless Menace of Violence at the City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, www.jfklibrary.org. April 5, 1968.

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• Never perform for your family. They either laugh too hard or not at all.

  Jay Leno

  Laughing, Hard

  Jay Leno (2007). “Jay Leno's How to Be the Funniest Kid in the Whole Wide World (or Just in Your”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• The table is the number one place we pass on family stories and it's the knowledge of where your family came from that helps build self-esteem and resiliency in kids. When we stop having dinners, we stop passing on those stories. And, of course, when you make food at home you actually know what's in the food you are eating. It is the healthiest, greenest thing you can do!

  Laurie David

  Self Esteem, Home, Kids

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• So often times we see these films that erode human dignity...films that deny the transcendent moral order of the moral universe. They're always eroding natural affections for families. Fathers betray their commitments, children's are always portrayed as brats and disobedient, marriages are always in crisis and struggle. I think (for) most of us, that's not the lives we live. We're always being challenged, we always have challenges but we love our families, we love our spouse, we love our children.

  Jason Jones

  Children, Father, Struggle

  "Jason Jones launches Movie to Movement to move Hollywood toward positive storytelling". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. October 2011.

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• People really don't care, in some ways, that you have a family. With a high profile job like I have, they just want you to win basketball games. You can do that and still keep your family together. I try the best I can to be at the basketball practices or tennis practices or recitals. In my first year at Dallas my (then 11-year old) son Avery Jr., said, "You know daddy, you're still the best coach in the NBA." I was like, "But I haven't won a playoff game yet." And he said, "That's okay. You're still my daddy." That makes you feel good.

  Avery Johnson

  Basketball, Jobs, Son

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Those of us who don't want to worship an invisible being or spend our days fretting about punishment in Hades do want to be able to share what we hold dear with our families and the broader world, and we want to be understood and appreciated for who we are.

  Greg Epstein

  Punishment, World, Want

  Greg Epstein (2009). “Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• I've dealt with some tragedy in my life, like losing my brother. That was probably one of the hardest days when I've been tested. But you learn what things are important. You have to prioritize your life with your family, your friends, things you want to accomplish. You've got to get all that stuff in order.

  Joe Nemechek

  Brother, Order, Tragedy

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Regular reading of and talking about the Book of Mormon invite the power to resist temptation and to produce feelings of love within our families. And discussions about the doctrines and principles in the Book of Mormon provide opportunities for parents to observe their children, to listen to them, to learn from them, and to teach them.

  David A. Bednar

  Children, Book, Reading

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• International war is the sum total of millions of individual wars, raging in the minds of the people, between what is selfish and what is selfless. To the extent that you and I develop selflessness in our own hearts, to that extent we contribute to peace in our family, community, country, and world.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Country, Selfish, War

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• Patriotism is (like) loving your family whether it is good or bad, while always striving to make it better. Nationalism simply insists 'Hey my family is the best'.

  Peter Jennings

  Loving You, Hey, My Family

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• To all fathers and mothers of the Church, tell your children that you love them and that you are so happy to have them in your family.

  Patricia P. Pinegar

  Mother, Children, Father

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• As your heart goes, so goes your family! If your heart isn't right, no child raising system, rules, or gimmicks will ever work. As your heart goes, so goes your parenting!

  Jim George

  Children, Heart, Gimmicks

  Jim George (2015). “A Man After God's Own Heart”, p.92, Harvest House Publishers

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• When my Republican colleagues talk about family values, they mean that a woman should not be able to have the right to control her own body; that women should not be able to purchase the contraceptives that they want. Those are their family values, not our family values.

  Bernie Sanders

  Mean, Body, Want

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• What you do with your life and how you do it is not only a reflection on you, but on your family and all of those institutions that have helped to make you who you are.

  Hank Aaron

  Reflection, Institutions, Who You Are

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• The greatest forces in the world are being used against families and traditional family values. These values are being undermined in subtle and in not-so-subtle ways. Because of this assault on family values, it takes all of your best efforts to fortify your family. It takes hard work and planning. It takes sacrifice. 'In the setting of the family...may I suggest that we give more of ourselves.'

  David O. McKay

  Hard Work, Sacrifice, Best Effort

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• Real Dreams don't require you to abandon your family, quit your job, and move to Tahiti with your paintbrush. They just require that you search your soul for that deep dream you put aside-and go for it. And watch your life light up.

  Barbara Sher

  Dream, Jobs, Real

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.53, Dell

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• I try to be the best husband and father I possibly can. And it doesn't mean I get to spend as much time with my family as I'd like, but I do the best I can. Even if you do get to be an astronaut and get to go and do a lot of interesting things, at some point that will come to an end. If in the process you short change your family or compromise your values along the way, when you get through on the other side, it won't really be worth it. At least not to me.

  Rick Husband

  Husband, Father, Mean

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• Today be thankful and think how rich you are. Your family is priceless, your time is gold and your health is wealth.

  Zig Ziglar

  Thinking, Being Thankful, Gold

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 22, 2013

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• I think that covering a conflict that is personal, that influences your very own, your family, gives you some perspectives.As a journalist, when I fly in, I care about every place I go including conflicts.

  Shaul Schwarz

  Thinking, Giving, Perspective

  Source: collider.com

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• It's sad to have to leave your family but I like the idea of someone believing in something so strongly that are willing to find a new family.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Believe, Ideas, New Family

  "Zoë Kravitz Talks Bonding with Castmates, Fight Training, Consulting Jennifer Lawrence for Advice, and More on the Set of DIVERGENT". Interview with Adam Chitwood, collider.com. October 24, 2013.

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• There are a lot of different things that are spinning and connecting when your family sees what you do.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Different, Spinning, Connecting

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families, we have some very odd people who have odd neurosis. All of us are really strange people.

  Jim Piddock

  People, Television, Neurosis

  Source: collider.com

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• There's a lot of cultural pressure around specialness and seeing your family. I feel like everything gets jacked up a little bit because of all of these expectations of love and family bonding.

  Joe Swanberg

  Expectations, Littles, Pressure

  Source: collider.com

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• If you're using technology in a way that opens out conversation in your family, with your friends, with people you care about, I'm for that. But if you're using technology to silence the conversations with the people around you, then you have to create sacred spaces in your home, the kitchen, the dining room, the car.

  Judy Woodruff

  Home, Technology, Space

  Source: www.pbs.org

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