
Top 42 Quotes About Definition Of Family
#1. I want to hug you. And I want to tear your gods-damned head off. Both at once."
"Ah," said Locke. "Near as I can tell, that's the definition of 'family' right there.
Scott Lynch
#2. Maybe it's about opening up your definition of family to include friends, too. Because friends are the family you choose.
Kim Holden
#3. Having a blood family means suddenly revising a definition of family that I have, over many years, learned to accept. How can I hold both concepts in my mind or find room for both families in my heart?
Soojung Jo
#4. That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.
Suzanne Collins
#5. I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time.
Adam Rapp
#6. The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.
Sarah Dessen
#7. I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
Harold Bloom
#8. There's no question in my mind: not only am I going to be able to make it through 16 games, I'll make it through another five years,
Tony Romo
#9. Guilty as charged. We are very much supportive of the family - the biblical definition of the family unit.
Dan T. Cathy
#10. Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
Christopher Lasch
#11. I should have listened to my father. "Want to know the true definition of the triumph of hope over experience?" he would say. "Plan a fun family day out.
Jojo Moyes
#12. Clarity confused me. I was far less forgiving and kind than the general state of disconnection in which I liked to live.
Rachel Caine
#13. You know the definition of a dysfunctional family, don't you? It's any family with more than one member in it.
Sarah Pekkanen
#14. Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.
Rick Warren
#15. A Christian wife who may be looking good on the outside, but who cuts her husband with her words, runs him down to her friends and family, and dishonors him in the children's presence is not beautiful by God's definition.
Tony Evans
#16. There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.
Vince Lombardi
#17. The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
Christopher Lasch
#18. Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
Kara Swisher
#19. A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both. But with God we're both born of Him and adopted by Him.
Jerry Bridges
#20. Family is such a fundamental part of Islam, and women run the family. I had to force myself not to impose my own definition of political and social freedom on women in Islam, and approach each story objectively.
Lynsey Addario
#21. Proving he's a crazy son of a bitch, Pigpen flashes me that guilty-by-definition-of-insanity grin. "See, was talking so bad? A few weeks with me and you'll be ready for full-on family therapy.
Katie McGarry
#22. I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself.
Eric Clapton
#23. Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.
Kurt Vonnegut
#24. Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer
Sunday Adelaja
#25. Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.
Paula Fox
#26. My definition of a green-collar job is this: a family-supporting, career-track job that directly contributes to preserving or enhancing environmental quality.
Van Jones
#27. I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant.
Leah Ward Sears
#28. When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it's very tempting to take the leap of faith from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I only wish they would admit it.
Tony Rothman
#29. Any artist is insulted by the suggestion that art is merely a matter of recording reality, and knows that it is impossible to explain how imagination can transform not only events and people, but the artist as well, into quite different "realities".
Joan Lindsay
#30. I've seen enough family photos in enough homes to know that the term "suitable for framing" should have a stricter definition.
Alex Bosworth
#31. Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.
George Bernard Shaw
#32. I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundamental unit of government.
Michele Bachmann
#33. 98: I love you because I would NEVER spend three hours making this book of 100 reasons why I love you for anyone else.
L.A. Casey
#34. Fear clouds our convictions and distorts our discernment. When we fill our minds with negative predictions or allow our thoughts to manipulate us into thinking about all the possible destructive outcomes of our mission, we invite fear to paralyze our progress.
Kris Vallotton
#35. By definition, though, we are family. And in difficult times-- times like these-- despite our differences, we stand together as family.
Stephen King
#36. My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.
Louisa May Alcott
#37. We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil.
Andrea Dworkin
#38. I think what we took away from first hearing about the punk stuff in England and then the early American punk stuff was a sense of self-definition and also sort of playing music for music's sake and being part of a family for family's sake.
Ian MacKaye
#39. Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.
Mary Baker Eddy
#40. Though it is fairly easy to describe what constitutes a bad home, there is no simple definition of a good one. Conformity with the traditional pattern certainly is no guarantee of the happiest results.
Alva Myrdal
#41. I think that is the very definition of a family: a group of individuals, bound by the essence of love, who share a life together and yet maintain their unique individuality.
Kathy Magliato
#42. A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.
William Hazlitt
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