Can't Rely On Family Quotes

#1. We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.

Shirley Franklin

#2. My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me.

Tony Parsons

#3. There are things in life that science will never be able to see. We have to rely on what has been passed from our ancestors, generation to generation.

Pawan Mishra

#4. One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even rely upon it; but one can never expect anything from the gratitude of a nation.

Otto Von Bismarck

#5. The best advice I get is actually from my family and friends. That has been a huge resource I've come to rely on.

Vanessa Minnillo

#6. The world is harsh and inconsiderate, and you can rely only on your family.

Gary Shteyngart

#7. The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.

Dan Simmons

#8. You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.

Leonard Cohen

#9. People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn't for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.

Michael Caine

#10. I never wanted to rely on my family for money.

Brody Jenner

#11. The most exciting thing is to read a poem out loud for the first time.

Eileen Myles

#12. The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love.

Martin Short

#13. I could hear him swallowing hard, trying not to cry. Why is it that we always try to be brave at moments when bravery is futile?

Douglas Kennedy

#14. I am committed to helping Alzheimer's Society in any way I can. My family and I rely on the help of organisations like Alzheimer's Society to help us understand the disease and guide us in the care of my grandmother. It's been a privilege to meet so many people with dementia.

Carey Mulligan

#15. The Malfoys. The family you can always rely on to make the world a murkier place.

J.K. Rowling

#16. Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.

Larry Bucshon

#17. It's a challenge, for sure. My family is not seeing me at all, for probably the next six months, and they haven't seen me for the last year. I'm really blessed with a lot of great partners, including my writing staff. Being able to rely on the people around me has really helped out.

Veena Sud

#18. There are people who bring joy to our lives, but who fail to make us happy. They are the people for the moment. Never rely on their love because it is not sustainable. Their love is alike a comet that illuminates the sky, but then fades away because it lacks the sustainable energy of the sun.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#19. Well, here were the ugly facts. She had no mad-ninja-skillz to rely on and her family didn't know where she was. She didn't know where she was. The only way she was leaving was if this creature allowed it.

Danielle Monsch

#20. The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?

Terry Pratchett

#21. A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don't have that kind of brain, so I rely on instinct. But I recently found out that poker and cards in general go way back in my family gene pool.

Natalie Dormer

#22. She needed him. And he was nowhere to be found. There was no else she could rely on. No one like her brother. No one else at all.

Alan Dean Foster