Family Is Not Defined By Blood Quotes

#1. One thing I know for sure is that family is not defined by blood.

Jessica Scott

#2. Where I come from, family's defined as those who don't screw you over a paycheck. Blood makes no difference. If you can trust them with your life and know that they'll be there come whatever hell rains down, then they're your family.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. Focus on the present moment. Stay in the moment.

Tony Horton

#4. The water glittered under the moon's careful watch, and, in the distance, steeples cut stark black silhouettes into the landscape of the distant city.

Katherine McIntyre

#5. If you like someone, you wish them well.
But.
If you love someone, you breathe wellness into them.

Sima Mittal

#6. I'm always like 'I'm too skinny, I can't gain weight, even when I try.' I'd like to try to not let that get to me.

Shailene Woodley

#7. Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things. Funny ironing board covers - I hate them.

Daniel Radcliffe

#8. But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I never know.

Fisher Stevens

#9. In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with labour ended, the table spread, goodness all around, the lost ones restored, hymnody incessant.

Matthew Arnold

#10. Spirituality and faith are at the core of who I am. I was born to deeply religious parents who were able to give me that rock solid foundation in the church and in my faith which really has served me so well.

Condoleezza Rice

#11. Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliche, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts.

Lisa Ling

#12. The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#13. Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you're able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can't you use the same energy to stay well and busy?

J.D. Salinger

#14. In his entire life he'd never had the inclination to gather a woman up, cradle her against his chest and rock her just to soothe her - until now.

-Maxim's thoughts

Christine Feehan

#15. When I initially read the script, it goes inside and comes out different things even without commenting on any stuff. And then, those pieces are taken out and then spread out through the movie.

A.R. Rahman

#16. Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance, compromise and humility. Almost none manages to do so.

Stephen Kinzer