Accepting Family Quotes

#1. I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

Katy Perry

#2. The very act of accepting her position at Mademoiselle was an act of open defiance against Dick Norton, his entire family, and the gendered expectations of midcentury America.

Elizabeth Winder

#3. It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.

Helen Oyeyemi

#4. My family brought me up to be very assimilated and accepting of everyone. But I do get frustrated when I see other Asians who behave in a way that reflects a stereotype.

Pearl Tan

#5. There was one thing he liked about the human's mating ritual, the female accepting the male's name. Callum liked this not because it denoted possession, but because it signified the birth of a single unit, a family.

Kristen Ashley

#6. Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.

Ella Baker

#7. It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don't spend time in the tomb without it changing you, and everyone who was waiting for you to come out.

Sara Zarr

#8. As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.

Tammy Bruce

#9. Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society.

Theodore Kaczynski

#10. and we both know how beautiful the book will be, how clearly it will speak to something within us - some previously unarticulated thought or reflection that, once recognized, we will never want to be without again.

Julie Schumacher

#11. My immediate family was always very supportive. It was my own fear of the rest of the world not accepting me, the rest of our society not accepting my wish to be an actor.

Lupita Nyong'o

#12. It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

John Major

#13. They continued on to London, and she's there, safe and sound, waiting for you.'
'You can't know for sure.' Piers swung up into the carriage.
'You will never know for sure if she's dead or alive unless you keep her near you all the time,' Sebastian said with perfect, if maddening, accuracy.

Eloisa James

#14. In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

Honore De Balzac

#15. I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.

Pia Zadora

#16. Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

Willard Scott

#17. Evolution has encountered no intellectual trouble; no new arguments have been offered. Creationism is a home-grown phenomenon of American sociocultural history-a splinter movement ... who believe that every word in the Bible must be literally true, whatever such a claim might mean.

Stephen Jay Gould

#18. Accepting a government grant with its accompanying rules is like marrying a girl and finding out her entire family is moving in with you before the honeymoon.

Ronald Reagan

#19. Frankly, accepting the family's unique qualities has done wonders to help my own sanity.

Carly Philips

#20. I'm not allowed to celebrate as normal eighteen year olds probably would but I'm going to save it for after the Olympics!

Tom Daley

#21. Kids across the country have grown up accepting the idea that no one can harm your family if at least one of its adult members is in the shower. No one knows why.

Sloane Crosley

#22. Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.

Franz Kafka