Family Obligation Quotes

#1. Since I have the obligation to take care of the needs of my family, I have decided to use a talent which, I believe, has been given to me. I am a poet ... Phew! You know, reader, what I and all sensible people think about that.

Multatuli

#2. Some families are an odd melting pot of strangers with the occasional offering of obligation.

Donna Lynn Hope

#3. The only obligation I recognize in this world is my duty to my immediate family

H.L. Mencken

#4. Mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

William Gaddis

#5. The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.

William J. Clinton

#6. I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

Elizabeth Edwards

#7. In the family, no one is ever pushed. I came to politics spontaneously; there was no obligation. It has to happen naturally.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

#8. I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

#9. The Germans are prisoners of their past.

Daniel Barenboim

#10. Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

Sophocles

#11. his family was happy when he was happy, and so his only obligation to them was to be happy, to live exactly the life he wanted, on the terms he wanted.

Hanya Yanagihara

#12. I came to the United States in the early '80s and was welcomed with open arms and given the opportunity to pursue my dreams. God has been very kind to us. My family and I are fortunate enough to be successful and we feel a tremendous responsibility and obligation to give back to our great country.

Naveen Jain

#13. We lived in the shadow of our rich relations. Mother was intent on keeping up with the people she was raised with, which was impossible. My father was a physician who wanted to be a rabbi but was weighed down by a great sense of obligation to support his family in style.

Stewart Stern

#14. I have a swagger coach that helps me and teaches me different swaggerific things to do.

Justin Bieber

#15. I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.

Peter Zumthor

#16. When you speak and your words fall on deaf ears, know that the universe listens.

Truth Devour

#17. The winters are too long, and there's only one airline, so it's difficult to escape when you feel frustrated or claustrophobic. The audience for our films isn't very large, so it's difficult to support an industry. But, Iceland is beautiful. Sometimes it's hard to imagine living anywhere else.

Baltasar Kormakur

#18. Everyone has a messed-up family to one extent or another but we all have an obligation to rise above it. Live in the present and stop sniveling about the past.

Emily Giffin

#19. We have no obligation other than to be ourself. Your friends, your family, the daily beat of life will shape you into a form pleasing to them. Your job is to make something pleasing to you. As soon as a crowd forms, leave it.

Chloe Thurlow

#20. For some reason, I believed that I had above all else an obligation to protect everyone
my teachers, my family
from the knowledge of my cutting. What they did not know would not cause them pain.

Caroline Kettlewell

#21. Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.

Stephen Carter

#22. There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.

Madame De Stael

#23. When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?

Patricia Ireland

#24. Energetic cords are unconscious - often sentimental or compulsive - emotional ties to past and present relationships, pre-conditioned by our wounds. They are made of toxic emotions such fear, guilt, blame, hatred, obligation, grasping need or pain.

Avril Carruthers

#25. Tell me a musician who's got rich off digital sales. Apple's doing pretty good though, right?

Prince

#26. Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle.

John Updike

#27. Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!

Fulton J. Sheen

#28. Far more products today are effectively services with a physical component.

Anonymous

#29. Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

Robert Breault

#30. I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.

Al Purdy

#31. We're individuals bound by a pattern of reciprocal obligation," I said. "If a group of chimps in the Amazon can be called a family, I think the Varners qualify."
-Ella

Lisa Kleypas

#32. We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent.

Robert W. Welch Jr.

#33. Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life.

Dick Murphy

#34. You married into the family. You have to love me. It's a contractual obligation.

Julia Quinn

#35. Beer, it's not just for breakfast anymore.

Mike Glover