Our Family Quotes - Page 16

• . The key to all of that is keeping hold of humility and keeping hold of the people around you, and making sure you stay grounded with your family and friends.

  Kimbra

  Humility, Keys, People

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• Oil is dead, on its way to extinction. As a group of citizens we must speak up and act towards ending fracking. Let your government know you will not tolerate a technology that not only poisons your family but our creature family at large; let them know you want sustainable power and all the jobs that will come with that new growth.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Jobs, Technology, Oil

  "Ian Somerhalder, ‘The Vampire Diaries’ Actor, Talks Love, Social Media And Social Change With Origin Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2013.

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• The first job of the president of the United States is to protect your safety and your security and the security and safety of your family.

  Chris Christie

  Jobs, Safety, President

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Terrorism - radical jihadist terrorism is not theoretical to me. It's real. And for seven years, I spent my life protecting our country against another one of those attacks. You won't have to worry when I'm President of the Untied States whether that can be done because I've already done it. I want the chance to do it again to protect you, your children and your families.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Children, Real

  Transcript of the fifth Republican Presidential Debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2015.

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• ISIS is not an organization that can destroy the United States. This is not a huge industrial power that can pose great risks to us, institutionally or in a systematic way. But they can hurt us. And they can hurt our people and our families.

  Barack Obama

  Hurt, Isis, Organization

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Hunting is a family thing for me, and it's a Texas thing. We have a lot of land in Texas that's been in our family for 12 generations.

  Eva Longoria

  Hunting, Texas, Land

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Growing up in rural Louisiana, the ecosystem around our home wove harmoniously into our family and into our daily life. Every life lesson that trickled its way into my being came from a mutually respectful relationship between the environment and my family.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Growing Up, Life Lesson, Home

  "Interview with United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Ian Somerhalder". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 01, 2014.

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• Medicine comes with hope: the hope of having a healthy child, the hope of being able to raise your family.

  Annie Lennox

  Children, Medicine, Healthy

  "Annie Lennox + Dr. Mitch Besser". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Some people, they don't want to be that loved, they don't want to be that involved, they don't want to be part of your family. That's where the pain comes in. You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.

  Wayne Coyne

  Pain, People, World

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Imagine how frustrating it is, being completely locked up and watching your family leave, your wife and children, and not being able to do anything about it.

  Tommy Lee

  Children, Wife, Able

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• It's a big deal to bring your family on the road, you know? I'd love to do it sometime, but you have to work out schools and all that.

  Shane Filan

  School, Work Out, Bigs

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• People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you're going. They want to hear you talk about your family.

  Kevin Hart

  People, Want, Knows

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• Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone.

  Michael Crichton

  Book, Writing, Location

  "King of the techno-thriller" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2006.

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• As a homeschooling parent, I have often wondered who learns more in our family, the parent or the child. The topic I seem to be learning the most about is the nature of learning itself.

  Jan Hunt

  Children, Parent, Homeschooling

  Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.113, New Society Publishers

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• Queens is famous throughout the world for diversity and tolerance. But really it's what we have in common that makes our neighborhoods work, our students succeed, and our families able to care for children and grandparents as they can.

  Grace Meng

  Queens, Children, Diversity

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• There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. Having a family guarantees that you have a built in support system, and although that support system may not always be what you want it to be, when it comes down to the wire, your family will love you and stand behind you, no matter what.

  Winston Churchill

  Love You, Home, Guarantees That

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• There's more to life than basketball. The most important thing is your family and taking care of each other and loving each other no matter what.

  Stephen Curry

  Basketball, Mvp, Important

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• Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Hard Work, Parent, Migrants

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• The only luxury is time. The time you get to spend with your family.

  Kanye West

  Luxury

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• Perhaps there has never been a time when we had greater need to pray and to teach our family members to pray. Prayer is a defense against temptation. It is through earnest and heartfelt prayer that we can receive the needed blessings and the support required to make our way in this sometimes difficult and challenging journey we call mortality.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Prayer, Blessing, Journey

  "Three Goals to Guide You". Thomas S. Monson’s address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2007.

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• It doen't matter what you've been through, where you come from... none of that matters. What matters is how you choose to love, how you choose to express that love through your work, through your family, through what you have to give to the world.

  Oprah Winfrey

  What Matters, Giving, World

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• How should we provide for our families? Financially, spatially (be near them), emotionally, morally, spiritually. ...I don't have what it takes to provide for my family spiritually; I need Jesus.

  Steve Farrar

  Jesus, Needs, My Family

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• I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain day to spend time with your family and loved ones, absent of TV, phone, and other interruptions.

  Joyce Giraud

  Phones, Matter, Tvs

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• [While] the primary responsibility, as we all acknowledge, (falls) with the family, ... Our homes, our families, our children's minds are being flooded by a tide of violence.

  John McCain

  Children, Fall, Home

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• If you don't have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the money in the world, but with no friends and no family, it's no good.

  Meek Mill

  No Friends, World, Ifs

  "The GQ+A: Meek Mill on Kendrick Lamar, Twitter Hashtags, and Being Rich Forever". Interview with Nate Erickson, www.gq.com. December 20, 2013.

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