The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life Richard Bach
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference They are the father, the mother and the teacher – A.PJ. – Abdul Kalam
Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten – David Ogden Stiers

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there – Barbara Bush
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
George Santayana The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. Gilbert K Chesterton
A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss. That’s the trade-off. But I’ll take it all. Brad Pitt
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. Margaret Mead
Women’s natural role is to be a pillar of the family. Grace Kelly
One’s family is the most important thing in life.
I look at it this way: One of these days I’ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me.
And the only people who’ll be with me will be my family. Robert Byrd
A man should never neglect his family for business. Walt Disney
I’ll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future. LaToya Jackson
When trouble comes, it’s your family that supports you. Guy Lafleur
The Family is the bond that links your true family.
Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person. Sandra Day O’Connor
Family, nature and health all go together. Olivia Newton-John
I stay in tune with my family and God. Regina King
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people’s families.
The only family that ever horrifies you is your own. Douglas Coupland
My family is my strength and my weakness. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.George Bernard Shaw
The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant.
Every table had an argument going. George Carlin
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. Andre Maurois
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. Charles R. Swindoll
The family is the nucleus of civilization. Will Durant
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. John Ruskin
The foundation of family – that’s where it all begins for me. Faith Hill
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended. Robert Frost
The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have. Ring Lardner
I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other. Jet Li
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. Cary Grant
My family comes first. Maybe that’s what makes me different from other guys. Bobby Darin
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not. James Joyce
I’ve always put my family first and that’s just the way it is. Jamie Lee
Curtis I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families.
Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack. Jodi Picoult
You have to defend your honor. And your family. Suzanne Vega
Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church. Henry Fonda
A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there’s a secure family atmosphere. Mel Gibson
I don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap. Fred Allen
One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor. Ralph Fiennes
Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them. Richard G.Scott
I would rather start a family than finish one. Don Marquis
I have quite possibly the best dad, mom, and sister in the world. Ryan Eggold
For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered.
I will let you know when I need your help. Paula Abdul
Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family Bo Bennett
I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well Heidi Klum
A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met. David A. Bednar
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them. Gertrude Stein
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs.
They were always indignantly leaving places. John Cheever
Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family. Barbara Bush
Tennis just a game, family is forever. Serena Williams
My family is more important than my party. Zell Miller
I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family. Al Roker
I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for. Maureen O’Hara
It is life with my husband and family that is my high now. Patty Duke
The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I’m thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes.
They restore my faith in the family’s future. Jackie Kennedy
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. Josh Billings
I don’t think anyone has a normal family.
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. Barbara Bush
We’ll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids.
But obviously we want a family so we’ll have to start thinking about that. Prince William
America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home. Mitt Romney
I could read the Qu’ran easily at the age of five. Akhmad Kadyrov
My family background was deeply Christian. Abbe Pierre
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. Richard Bach
When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit. Jerry Falwell
I don’t know if I believe in marriage.
I believe in family, love and children. Penelope Cruz
I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.Joseph Stiglitz
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. Alex Haley
What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy? Princess Diana Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster. Agnes Smedley
It’s very strange that most people don’t care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. Douglas Coupland
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Pope John Paul II The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. Christopher Lasch
Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God. Christopher Love
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place. Margaret Drabble
If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family. Michael Enzi
There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.
First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad.
We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that. Angelina Jolie
He’s the one who got me to be a really big animal lover. Paris Hilton
My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn’t seem to add up to very much. Gwyneth Paltrow
And I’m not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do. Patrick Warburton
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home. Elizabeth Edwards
The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world. Richard G. Scott
If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence. David McCallum
I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family. Nastassja Kinski
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. Kofi Annan
I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you. Joyce Meyer
Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth.
That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life. Jordan Peterson
It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family. Philip Green
A good life depends on the strength of our relationships with family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and strangers. David Lammy
I am very happy and honored to be part of the Sony ATV family. Maluma
God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity.
I don’t know what I’d do without them. Josie Loren
We define family in many different ways: not just by blood but by people with whom we find a common ground and a common bond. Adrienne C. Moore
Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family.Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. Earl Nightingale
Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth. Menachem
Begin I love children and I get along with them great. It’s just that I believe if you’re going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, ‘I want a family. ‘ I don’t feel that sense of urgency. George Clooney
The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports. Bernice Weissbourd
Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be. Elizabeth Fishel
Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected. Christina Milian
When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.Darius Rucker
My kids give me the balance to live right. Celine Dion
The one thing that kept our family together was the music.
The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music. Dennis Wilson
I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values – the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one’s children. Ednita Nazario
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Buddha
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. Queen Elizabeth II
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. George Burns
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. Pope John Paul II
The decision to have an abortion is a deeply personal decision between a woman, her family, her doctor, her God; not her government, and not the public at large. Margaret Hoover
Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing. Irina Shayk
I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters – a family, a home and a good name. Mike Pence
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.
All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it. Haniel Long
The mother-in-law is the centre of a family. Les Dawson
What people don’t understand is joining a gang ain’t bad, it’s cool, it’s fine.
When you in the hood, joining a gang it’s cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family’s in the gang. We’re not just killing people every night, we’re just hanging out, having a good time. Snoop Dogg
I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don’t always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life.
And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude. Jennifer Hyman
Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family. Luke Bryan
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. Ogden Nash
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today.
The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label. Barack Obama
God Bless my mother and father for all the hard work they’ve done for our family. Coy Bowles
At the end of the day, life is about being happy being who you are, and I feel like we are so blessed to have the support system and the best family to really just support each other no matter what we’re going through. Kim Kardashian
Everybody wants the same things – to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today. Zig Ziglar
I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court.
For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball. Stephen Curry
I’m lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family.
If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you. JoJo
Growing up, my dad was ‘get a real job, don’t go pursuing your dreams, that’s how you become homeless. ‘ So, do I pick my family or do I pick my own happiness, and how much does my own happiness depend on my family? Jimmy O. Yang
But I think I am blessed because I have a very loving, understanding and supporting family. Neha Dhupia
You can’t choose your family, but you can choose your friends. Scott Hall
I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph. Elliott Erwitt
I grew up in a big Italian family. Jonathan Bailey
I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends.
I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family.
You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what’s the point in life? Shah Rukh Khan
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions.
Keep the church and state forever separate. Ulysses S.Grant
I’ve had my heart broken in a lot of different ways a lot of different times by different people – whether it be a family member, a girlfriend, a friend, just all types of relying on people, making yourself vulnerable to people. Lil Peep
As you get older, the cliches of life ring true.
It’s the simple things that matter most: your family, the people you love, your health and sanity. Ronan Keating
My family is always my priority. J. R. Smith
Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers. Les Brown
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard.
That is the only proper basis for family life. Oscar Wilde
Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness. John C.Maxwell
I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church.
My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ.
At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ’s true love and forgiveness. Michele Bachmann
Think about what people are doing on Facebook today.
They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand.
They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to.
It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now. Mark Zuckerberg
Wherever you are, it’s about the people you’re surrounded by, not necessarily where you lay your head. Jenji Kohan
He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world. Barry Goldwater
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. Douglas Adams
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family – and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually. Frank Sinatra
Life is supposed to be about love and good times, and so I’ve forgiven myself after paying the consequences of my bad decisions, and I’m ready to move forward and allow my life to be a light to others that it’s never over, even for a person like me, who has lost a tremendous amount of respect among my peers, my fans, my friends and family. Jon Jones
Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening. Emma Thompson
I liked St.Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home.
I had all my family and friends there. Yogi Berra
A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian. and most of all, his family ought to know. Dwight L. Moody
My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy
I make sure that I spend quality time with my family. Suniel Shetty
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.
Joachim du Bellay Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures. Vince Lombardi
When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band.
It’s different than bringing something in by yourself. Albert Hammond, Jr.
Life is short, tomorrow’s not promised, so to be there with my kids, and do things with them, and go on family vacations – this is more valuable than anything.
Jadakiss
All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race. Kanye West
They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what’s keeping my head above the water. Kelly Clarkson
Soup is a lot like a family. Each ingredient enhances the others; each batch has its own characteristics; and it needs time to simmer to reach full flavor. Marge Kennedy
I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix in South Africa.
I have a wonderful relationship with my brother and sister; this makes me feel that I know always where I belong. Jose Carreras
As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities. Daisaku Ikeda
If you have a good support system like your family and your friends around you, then you can’t go wrong. So just believe in yourself, do you your thing, and stay strong in what you believe in.
So it’s great to have a family that’s united behind you and doesn’t leave you. Karim Benzema
We live life in restaurants, its the center of social life, where we celebrate with family and friends, make new friends, travel without traveling, and of course, eat. Philip Rosenthal
You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters.
Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters. Courtney Thorne-Smith
I’m a strong person,I’m a strong family man, I’m a strong husband and a strong father. David Beckham
You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community. Al Smith
My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what’s important to me. Michael Imperioli
Estate planning is an important and everlasting gift you can give your family.
And setting up a smooth inheritance isn’t as hard as you might think. Suze Orman
Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals.
It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person’s sense of self-worth. Anthony Carmona
You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it’s all about family. Rod Stewart
We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty. Colin Powell
I always believe that the elders in my family are the reason for my success. R. Madhavan
My family are everything to me. They come first in everything I do. Nigel Barker
It’s about staying focused, continuing to do good work, make my family and community proud; that’s all I really want to do. and pay my bills. Gina Rodriguez
I know all I really wanna do is get money and take care of my family.
Meek Mill He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. Benjamin Franklin
I love my living room: it’s the heart of my home where I get to chill and spend time with family and friends. Bobby Berk
When fathers come home after a tough day at work, they should come home to serve, like my father did, teaching lessons around the dinner table and leading the family in worship and prayer. Tony Evans
It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here. Arnold Schwarzenegger
You’ve got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice.
The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really. Ellen Barkin
With all my fans I got a family again. Tupac Shakur
Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream. Lionel Messi
Faith is something we never discuss at the dinner table in my family, but I do believe in God. Volodymyr Zelensky
As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. Buddy Hackett
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‘Why god? Why me?’ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‘There’s just something about you that pisses me off. Stephen King
I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. Rodney Dangerfield
It’s the only show where a family, everyone from children to their grandmothers, can sit together and all be entertained by the same thing. Princess Stephanie of Monaco
The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends. Cindy Morgan
Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
That is the thankless position of the father in the family – the provider for all, and the enemy of all. August Strindberg
Stay away from family when you are working on a startup. Ritesh Agarwal
In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty. Jon Corzine
My happiest moments are when I’m with my family and when I go to the park at school with my friends. Jacob Tremblay
Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what’s right for them and their family. Shaquille O’Neal
Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends – they will never go out of fashion. Niki Taylor
Religion and gods and beliefs – for me, it all comes down to your brother.
And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole – it’s about human connections. Eric Kripke
Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am. Marian Wright Edelman
I am a family person and also very emotional by nature. Raashi Khanna
The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part.
It evokes memories of your family history. Debi Mazar
I’m an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family.
The biggest family in the world is my fans. Eartha Kitt
When you look at Prince Charles, don’t you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family? Robin Williams
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