Top 95 Family System Quotes
#1. It's at the core of the Catholic faith, and to imagine how we are going to succeed in our country unless we have committed family life, a child-centered family system, is hard to imagine.
Jeb Bush
#2. The seven things that make up the rainbow of India's development are India's strong and deep rooted family system, Agriculture-Animal development, India's Matru Shakti (women power), Natural Resources (Jal, Jameen, Jungle), Youth power, Vibrant Democracy and Knowledge.
Narendra Modi
#3. The overall goal [of counseling] is to help family members become 'systems experts' who could know [their] family system so well that the family could readjust itself without the help of an expert.
Murray Bowen
#4. The life of a model isn't easy. But I try to keep a good head on my shoulders by staying close to my family and old friends. They're my support system.
Constance Jablonski
#5. I'm very lucky to have a strong support system with my friends and my family. They have kept me grounded.
Kelsey Chow
#6. As your heart goes, so goes your family! If your heart isn't right, no child raising system, rules, or gimmicks will ever work. As your heart goes, so goes your parenting!
Jim George
#7. I don't know what it feels like not to have a great family support system - I was lucky to have that.
Rita Ora
#8. In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never expect a sane response from an insane system.
Renee Fredrickson
#9. I took my grandmother to the emergency room. The doctor said that she was on an artificial life support system, and that although her brain was dead her heart was still beating. I though, "we've never had a democrat in the family before".
Emo Philips
#10. When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
Patricia Ireland
#11. The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.
Theresa May
#12. In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.
Fannie Barrier Williams
#13. At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.
Dean Koontz
#14. The religion or pulpit of a nation is the most powerful source of value formation in any country. Followed by the family, the educational system and the media.
Sunday Adelaja
#15. They only think they think. No total vision, total system, merely schemes with a vague family resemblance, no more identity than bridges and, say, spiderwebs. But they rush across chasms on spiderwebs, and sometimes they make it, and that, they think, settles that!
John Gardner
#17. Oral tradition is practised in most African cultures: ideals, family histories and legacies are handed down from one generation to the other physically or verbally. However, this system is flawed in the sense that a lot of African innovation, experience and culture have been lost, undocumented.
Nana Awere Damoah
#18. ... rarely missed her family - her family had created their own realm of problems - but at times like this, having someone to turn to would have made life easier.
Gail Gaymer Martin
#19. Adele was in everybody's wish list, and her list of Romeos was nearly as long as the Yellow Pages. Some witty person had suggested that her family needed a system of traffic lights to avoid fatal crashes for the men in her life.
Olga Nunez Miret
#20. Five years ago, Samira did not want to continue in the regular school system in Iran. To help her with her education, I set up a home school. It wasn't just for my family, it was open to other friends.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
#21. We have a mental health system that is dominated by political and hidden forces that keep us stagnated and unable to see real, lasting change.
Tamara Hill
#22. In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.
Ahmed Zewail
#23. Obviously, my daughter keeps me motivated, but I've got a really great support system. Having my husband and my mother and my family really support me, so that I can not only provide for my daughter, but I can set up a future that creates a better life for her.
Jamie Lynn Spears
#24. To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
Patricia Reilly Giff
#25. You'll forget your inner peace, forget that it comes from impermanence. From knowing that everything will break. And only reason can right you.
E.J. Koh
#26. The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.
Quentin Tarantino
#27. The noise increased and came from all directions. There was no amount of reason to negotiate the void between sound and movement.
E.J. Koh
#28. The ambiance of every environment in a country is the value system of the given nation. It is that culture that influences how citizens of a nation react, respond and behave among themselves in regards to politics, commerce, family and social life.
Sunday Adelaja
#29. To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.
Robert Heilbroner
#30. My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.
Kelly Clarkson
#31. Never let it be said that dialect is a reflection of intellect.
On the contrary, it is a reflection of the deep traditional values of a culture that respects family, God, and a
language system above everything else. I give thanks to my maker that I'm a Southern woman.
Patricia H. Graham
#32. Over time, a noisy lifestyle and stress make you old. The stress, noise and rush that often accompany working life, family life and social life can be too much for your nervous system and brain, which also need rest and cleansing.
Thorbjorg Hafsteinsdottir
#33. To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.
Mike Huckabee
#34. When we're dealing with money in relationships, when we're dealing with money in our personal lives, when we're dealing with money in our families, the flow of money in a family represents the value system under which that family operates.
Dave Ramsey
#35. I'm glad I lived such a full life before I settled down into a family because I got to enjoy it and get it out of my system.
Drew Barrymore
#36. When you worked in a studio it was the studio system that you kind of missed because it was a big, big family. I mean MGM had 5,000 people working a day there. You miss it.
George Sidney
#37. When we are out there selling a new picture, when did it become part of the deal that you have to sell the family? To use the juicy part of your life to get attention? I'm not blaming the reporters. It's the system.
Jimmy Smits
#38. I have a musical ancestry as much as I have a family ancestry. Honoring those ancestors gives you access to a greater source of appreciation and information than you would have if you were just going on your own ego system.
Billy Corgan
#39. We should seriously rethink a tax code that makes it less and less possible for one parent to stay home with the kids and replace it with a family-friendly system of tax collection.
Mike Pence
#40. If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.
Billy Corgan
#41. Those days are long gone. But our corporations haven't caught up with it. Our law firms, our higher education system, and our medical institutions haven't figured out how this family policy is going to work. Men are tired of the 80- to 100-hour work week as well.
Vicki Donlan
#42. I'm not the geek in the family: I'm the organizer. But what I do know is that we have a very terrific team of consultants, former federal cybersecurity experts who are working with us to make sure we have a very safe system.
Donna Brazile
#43. Every Ontarian deserves to have a stable, affordable home. As we update our Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategy, I want to hear your views on how we can make Ontario's housing system work better for you, your family, and your community.
Ted McMeekin
#44. We have a legal immigration system that's outdated, it's primarily based on whether you have family members living here. In the 21st century, it has to be more of a merit-based system, and that is why our legal immigration system is in need of modernization.
Marco Rubio
#45. Under this aura of perfection he knows how flawed he really is but his intact denial system keeps this awareness suppressed in the far recesses of his mind.
David W. Earle
#46. I studied music since I was four years old, and from that moment I became part of a family. And that family has taught me things; not only musical things, but things I have to face in life, and that is where the success of the system lies
Gustavo Dudamel
#47. If you wanted to incorporate the Sticks system with an allowance plan in your family, you can. I would suggest $0.50 per Golden Stick for little ones and $1.00 for older kids.
Nadia Swearingen-Friesen
#48. Part of the doctrinal system in the United States is the pretense that we're all a happy family, there are no class divisions, and everybody is working together in harmony. But that's radically false.
Noam Chomsky
#49. If the same family were always on the bottom, then you'd have big resentments. But if DuPonts go down and Pampered Chef up, [that's good]. That much churn makes people think the system is fairer. Buffett: We don't like churn now, but we liked it more 30-40 years ago.
Charlie Munger
#50. I'm lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you.
Jojo
#51. I have a good support system of friends and family.
Penny Marshall
#52. Art exhibitions would be less censored if they were rated, G or NC-17, like movies. People in general see galleries and museums as family-appropriate excursions. Censorship is a provided system which caters to lazy parenting, which is publicly-funded and socially accepted.
Adamo Macri
#53. We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being.
Christopher Hitchens
#54. I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.
Zach Johnson
#55. I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn't grow up with the same privileges I had?'
Erin Gruwell
#56. Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.
Flea
#57. I try to surround myself with a good support system. Whether that's other creators or my family or my friends, or even my viewers, who encourage me just as much as I might encourage them and they're just as much a part of my life as they let me be a part of theirs.
Tyler Oakley
#58. I came to this house for safety. They came because the foster care system ran out of homes. We stayed because we were stray pieces of other puzzles, tired of never fitting.
Katie McGarry
#59. If you didn't feel like your support system was strong enough, then getting yourself out of the situation was the best thing to do
Lindsey Kelk
#60. Like every mom, you try to juggle, but I also want people to know that you don't have to be a superhero. I'm not a superhero; I have a team of people who help me. I have a great family support system.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#61. If disguise was a vehicle, murder was a world.
E.J. Koh
#62. If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.
Shane Claiborne
#63. If you are really standing up for the family, you then have to say, how do we change our school system, how do we fix tax policy so that our families are supported?
Otis Moss III
#64. I think that if you've got a great support system around you, and a great family, and a tight team around you, I think you don't get lost.
Rita Ora
#65. I'm happy with who I am inside. I'd hate to have accolades and all that and not really be happy with who I was. So I'm really thankful for my family and for the support system that I have for being the person that I am today. I'm proud of who I am.
Keke Palmer
#66. I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.
Mira Bartok
#67. Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge.
Michele Bachmann
#68. The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power.
Joseph Sobran
#69. I am a much happier 27-year-old than I was at 20 years old. I am so fortunate because I have an amazing family, amazing friends and a great support system.
Meryl Davis
#70. We used to be so proud that our country offered far more economic opportunities than the feudal system in Great Britain, with its royal family, princesses and dukes. But social mobility in the UK is higher than in the US. Our social rift is as big as it was in the 1920s.
Robert Reich
#71. The Truth about America's Silicon Valley-
Angels in the Silicon
Riveting and insightful regarding progressivism and the social upheavals living in the Silicon Valley.-
John Yoo, UC Berkeley Constitutional Lawyer, novelist, and public servant
Richard Theodor Kusiolek
#72. No child should be raised in a system. A system isn't a parent. Even the system knows this, which is why the Children and Family Services Division puts so much effort into finding permanent homes for the kids who are never going to be reunited with their birth parents.
Rhea Perlman
#73. The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves.
Marco Rubio
#74. At the end of the day, life is about being happy being who you are, and I feel like we are so blessed to have the support system and the best family to really just support each other no matter what we're going through.
Kim Kardashian
#75. Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years.
Richard Marshall
#76. A mother is an individual who'd go to any length for someone else, beyond rationality, beyond her physical body, her social bindings of state, country, her kind. That's the most horrifying individual you'll ever meet.
E.J. Koh
#77. Every selfish motive therefore, every family attachment, ought to recommend such a system of policy as would provide no less carefully for the rights and happiness of the lowest than of the highest orders of Citizens.
George Mason
#78. [American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.
Alec Baldwin
#79. The problem with the American health-care system that it is not working for the American family.
John F. Kerry
#80. Many churches approach ministry to people through the lens of an educational system instead of through the analogy of the family.
Ross Parsley
#81. I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix in South Africa. And this was obviously awkward because I grew up in a mixed family. My mother's a black woman, South African Xhosa woman ... and my father's Swiss, from Switzerland.
Trevor Noah
#82. The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
Christopher Lasch
#83. The failure of the family court system in America is a national scandal. Sadly, the mainstream media, whether out of ignorance or fear, refuses to cover it. That media silence means that every day, these American human rights abuses continue to occur.
Garland Waller
#84. I didn't take the typical path and go to college after high school. Instead, I saved up money from teaching dance classes and moved to L.A. But my family was so supportive - I never felt pressure from them. It's crucial to find a support system, even if it's not your family.
Dianna Agron
#85. Mittelstand companies are incredibly focused and almost always family-run. The young men and women go through the apprenticeship system and learn that the goal is excellence.
Tom Peters
#86. The emotional trauma of a security breach can sometimes stay with a person for the rest of their lives. This is why the best prevention efforts are important for your family.
Franklin Gillette
#87. But don't go overboard, Pat. You know what matters in the end." Pat laughed. "Family, the loyalty of your minions, and a reliable logistics support system?
Alex Gabriel
#88. I came from a working-class family, but I was supported by a grant system and had my fees paid, so I came out of Oxford with a debt of something like £200.
Val McDermid
#89. To separate from my culture (as from my family) I had to feel competent enough on the outside and secure enough inside to live life on my own. Yet in leaving home I did not lose touch with my origins because lo mexicano is in my system. I am a turtle, wherever I go I carry 'home' on my back.
Gloria E. Anzaldua
#90. I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them. I don't necessarily feel that way anymore. I'm still ambivalent, I still loathe the British class system, and the Royal family are the apex of the British class system.
Helen Mirren
#91. I came back once or twice a year to visit my family, and then I would take off again. In the beginning, I think everybody thought I would get over it and get it out of my system. And I never did.
Rita Gelman
#92. An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.
Louis De Bernieres
#93. Joss often thought of herself in male terms when analyzing her role in the family business system, since there didn't seem to be any available roles or jobs for women.
Suzanne Stroh
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Dave Ramsey
#95. My own family basically did what the American justice system does: I was given more lenient treatment than the black kids.
Trevor Noah
