Family Quotes About Love & Belonging – Page 4 | GloryQuotes

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Jerry Brown

We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.

Hans Kung

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Don Marquis

A princely mind will undo a private family.

George Savile

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

Nora Roberts

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family.

Walter Cronkite

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.

Thomas Hardy

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

Freya Stark

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

Elizabeth II

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

Pope John Paul II

Methamphetamine is a highly dangerous drug that is wreaking havoc on families and communities throughout this country. The drug's use is spreading across the United States.

Rick Larsen

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

Joseph Barbera

Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.

Keith Henson

If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers.

Andrew Sullivan

My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.

Jack Herer

In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

Stephen Cole Kleene

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

Will Durant

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

Douglass North

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

Katherine Dunn

The family has a social function and so it should be sustained.

Rocco Buttiglione

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Alex Haley

My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.

Alan Hovhaness

I was allowed to meet my family every two weeks for a half hour.

Mordechai Vanunu

Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot of the issues I was concerned with.

Atom Egoyan

We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans the tools necessary to pursue the American dream. And then, we must get out of the way.

Brad Henry

The other thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your family, it doesn't matter if it's a recession or not, you can include that in your quality of life.

Jim Fowler

The Round-Up is a wonderful community celebration, and I greatly enjoy the chance to visit with residents and see so many families enjoying the festivities offered throughout the week.

Greg Walden

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

Talcott Parsons

I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it.

Robert Mapplethorpe

The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.

Mary Antin

Through the years you, the Delaware State family and your predecessors, have faced many challenges. You worked through them with fierce determination and good will, and you have made great progress.

Michael N. Castle

This year, we are going to take our government out of the hands of corporate special interests and put it back into the hands of Ohio families - where it belongs.

Sherrod Brown

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

Margaret Mead

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.

Barbara Mikulski

We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

Kit Bond

Americans are also feeling the effects of soaring energy prices at the gas pump. The double burden of these added expenses will be far too much for many families.

Russ Carnahan

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

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

George J. Mitchell

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

Jessica Savitch

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

Alfred Adler

I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer.

Jim Cantalupo

Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.

John Dos Passos

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

Martin Scorsese

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

Laura Miller

However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.

Steven Chu