Quotes About Family Life

#1. On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

Madonna Ciccone

#2. I tried the line out on some people on the street, like, "What do you think of this: 'the art of family life is to not take it personally'?" And they would laugh. But you know, everybody's got something going on in their families, and then once you have kids, that of course exponentially rises.

Mary Kay Zuravleff

#3. Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Oscar Wilde

#4. If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?

Benjamin Harrison

#5. Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country.

Erin Pizzey

#6. What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out.

Ice Cube

#7. Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#8. To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

Oscar Wilde

#9. For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.

Karl Marlantes

#10. This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.

Willie Aames

#11. I had a very special family life. My mother and father made sure when we were home, we were part of the family, not a TV star. And the other thing: my father was fully employed while I was doing the series.

Jerry Mathers

#12. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Lao-Tzu

#13. I have a sense of urgency, of time. I am a woman and am always running between work, doctors' appointments, school meetings, filling up the fridge, then going back to work. Like everyone who combines professional and family life, I am always doing several things at the same time.

Segolene Royal

#14. My family life and early political life - being exposed to the news constantly, being enrolled in an Afrocentric education program, and doing the extracurriculars I did - played a huge role in me finding my path.

Baratunde Thurston

#15. People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of anextreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.

Stendhal

#16. When children are allowed to help make family decisions, they tend to be much more supportive and happier with family life. Also when allowed to help make rules, they will follow them much closer than if rules are forced on them. All these add up to a happier home for all.

Rudolf Dreikurs

#17. I told them [the producers] I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of the family life I was able to introduce to television.

Esther Rolle

#18. When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.

Julius Erving

#19. Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put 'I love Mom' on the license plate.

Erma Bombeck

#20. I put everything I had into it - all my feelings and everything I'd learned in 46 years of living, about family life and fathers and children. And my feelings about racial justice and inequality and opportunity.

Gregory Peck

#21. Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.

Mason Cooley

#22. The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.

Lily Rabe

#23. Pornography takes all the reality out of sex and Disney does that to family life.

Jarvis Cocker

#24. You are sure that I would not be well advised to make certain excisions and eliminations? You do not think it would be a good thing to cut, to prune? I might, for example, delete the rather exhaustive excursus into the family life of the early Assyrians?

P.G. Wodehouse

#25. But family life sometimes had a vortex, like weather. It could be like a tornado in a quiet zigzag: get close enough and you might see within it a spinning eighteen-wheeler and a woman.

Lorrie Moore

#26. If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite.

Ayn Rand

#27. I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.

Hope Solo

#28. The first thing that a person finds in life and the last to which he holds out his hand, and the most precious that he possess, even if he does not realize it, is family life.

Adolph Kolping

#29. I go home to London in between jobs, and in London, my life has nothing to do with the business. It's a family life, hanging with friends.

Clive Owen

#30. Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks.

Dorothy Hamill

#31. It is in the ardent revolutionist to whom the joys of art, of science, even of family life, seem bitter, so long as they cannot be shared by all, and who works despite misery and persecution for the regeneration of the world.

Pyotr Kropotkin

#32. I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.

Anne Roiphe

#33. Love transcends all barriers. Age, Gender, Caste et al are the diktats of society to thwart love, promote strait jacketed family life . . ."

"If love could transcend all barriers why not that of gender as well?

Jayant Swamy

#34. Language is of divine origin.. Some may know this but do not realize its implications in their daily family life. Love at home starts with loving language.

Charles A. Didier

#35. I have a son and a wife, and I really enjoy my family life as much as I enjoy my career, but there are times where my career just kind of overpowers, and they have to be really very understanding of it. I appreciate them for that. That's probably the hardest part about everything.

Wiz Khalifa

#36. Joy is family, life, all of it - the big stuff and the small stuff. Just holding the woman you love in your arms can make a hard day at work fade away.

Renee Carlino

#37. But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.

George Cadbury

#38. Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was determined to reform family life on Roman, or perhaps rather on Corsican, principles. It was with him, not with Queen Victoria, that Victorian morality originated.

J. Christopher Herold

#39. All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

Sigmund Freud

#40. So often it happens that this one or that stands condemned by the social laws that govern family relations; and yet there are peculiar circumstances in the case, differences of temperament, divergent interests, innumerable complications of family life that excuse the apparent offence.

Honore De Balzac

#41. It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated.

Caitlin Flanagan

#42. While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family life and the most basic demands of Christian morality.

Pope Francis

#43. Family life is a daily struggle to turn love into happiness.

Robert Breault

#44. The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

Christopher Lasch

#45. It's difficult to find a genuine weakness that makes you appear competent. For instance, telling your interviewer that your weakness is working so hard that you have trouble prioritizing your family life is a little too cliche and comes across as disingenuous.

Travis Bradberry

#46. If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

Al Goldstein

#47. Remind me that woman must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities; that she must be the pioneer in achieving this stillness, not only for her own salvation, but for the salvation of family life, of society, perhaps even of our civilization.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#48. In grades 1 through 4 these books introduce the child to U.S. society - to family life, community activities, ordinary economic transactions, and some history. None of the books covering grades 1 through 4 contain one word referring to any religious activity in contemporary American life.

Paul Vitz

#49. You can't tell me anything about family life. I've had plenty to last me.' 'But it's not all like that,' I objected. 'Near enough. It's all being under somebody's thumb.

Willa Cather

#50. I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.

Paulo Coelho

#51. I've been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses out on some things because of his job.

Bill Shankly

#52. Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.

Oliver Hudson

#53. Family itself is a "we" experience, a "we" mentality. And admittedly, the movement from "me" to "we" - from independence to interdependence - is perhaps one of the most challenging and difficult aspects of family life.

Stephen R. Covey

#54. I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

Jodi Picoult

#55. When you read Chekhov, everything has an even gray tone. When you read 'Family Life', everything has an even white tone. It is almost like when you paint on paper, and you can see the paper through the paint.

Akhil Sharma

#56. When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.

Jerry Reinsdorf

#57. Family life, even with just one little boy, had its own familiar rhythms, and it was perfectly possible to keep right on dancing like you always have, even when your mind is somewhere else.

Liane Moriarty

#58. Instead of the country agreeing with her community on the natural rightness of heterosexual marriage as the center of family life, she was now obliged to defend herself against the idea that these views were sexist, homophobic, old-fashioned, and backward.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

#59. My family life is a deep source of satisfaction.

James Heckman

#60. Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions.

Alan Keyes

#61. In order to undertake anything in family life, it is necessary that there be either complete discord between the spouses or loving harmony. But when the relations between spouses are uncertain and there is neither the one nor the other, nothing can be undertaken.

Leo Tolstoy

#62. Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#63. Sometimes I think, What a man gonna do with all this media publicity, Photos in newspapers, photography in and among the industry, references and contacts when he cannot help a friend, when he has no family life, and not Even a dog to welcome him after work hours!

Himmilicious

#64. One has to choose thrill of learning over earning. knowledge before power, curious experience than money and safe family life. That's spirit of my favorite youth.

Jay Vasavada

#65. Grandparents ... can give the children unity of family life and some knowledge of their own family history ...

Jim Conway

#66. We have always understood that the foundations of the family, as an eternal unit, were laid even before this earth was created! Society without basic family life is without foundation and will disintegrate into nothingness.

Spencer W. Kimball

#67. The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Pope John Paul II

#68. 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

#69. My line of thoughts about dogs is analogous. A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones. And their passing moods may reflect the passing moods of others.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#70. I've worked with Tim Burton five times, and it's just like being part of a family; life doesn't get much better than that.

Christopher Lee

#71. The happiest people I've found are in science. These people have three times the IQ - maybe I'm exaggerating. They have a higher IQ than I do. They love what they're doing, they have a good family life, they're satisfied.

Eli Broad

#72. Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?

Robert Breault

#73. I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

Gertrude Stein

#74. Moominpappa: "Tell us all that's happening out in the world!"
Snufkin: "Fuss and misery."
- from "Moomin and Family Life" comic strip

Tove Jansson

#75. Any MP has to have a proper family life, they have to have support of their partner.

Michel Martelly

#76. I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.

Lee Iacocca

#77. Software engineers are apparently not supposed to have a social or family life.

David J. Anderson

#78. I like marriage, family life and I wish to get married again. But opting out of an unhappy marriage was a duty toward myself & my future.

Rossana Condoleo

#79. I guess to their wide, innocent eyes it all seemed like normal family life because they had never known any different. In fact, I was the only one who had lived with anyone else, the only one that realized that life didn't have to be this terrifying and this painful all the time

Joe Peters

#80. There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.

Ibrahim Babangida

#81. American family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of one of their parents ... Not until the sixties did the chief cause of separation of parents shift from death to divorce.

Richard Louv

#82. I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am lucky that I have such a good image of family life - my father and mother are still in love, still happy.

Caterina Murino

#83. When you have children, you don't have downtime, but I have a family life that is rich and fulfiling.

Julianne Moore

#84. I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

Vivienne Westwood

#85. Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

#86. Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked.

Franz Kafka

#87. It's very easy for me to just encourage people in their family life and in their children. It's just very natural to me. It's what I feel comfortable doing, and so I enjoy it.

Victoria Osteen

#88. Once you run for office, you're in it - sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

John F. Kennedy Jr.

#89. One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.

Julius Erving

#90. Without conjuring up fantasies of bygone eras with family games and long, leisurely meals, the question arises: isn't there a better family life available than this dismal, mechanized arrangement of children watching television for however long is allowed them, evening after evening?

Marie Winn

#91. Any addiction has the potential of becoming self-terrorizing. But addiction to reading and leading a family life never become self-terrorizing. These two are addictions that make you more civilized.

PARESH P AJMERA

#92. At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be
for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past
is nearly overwhelming.

Katrina Kenison

#93. The crowdedness of family life and the faithfulness of solitude - both brave decisions, or both decisions of cowardice - make little dent, in the end, on the profound and perplexing loneliness in which every human heart dwells.

Yiyun Li

#94. The message I really want to get out there is that I'm someone who works hard, gets the most out of his talent, off the course has a great family life.

Luke Donald

#95. We are created for the sake of love. When we experience love in family life, it is heavenly, but it is still only an image of the greater glory we hope to behold in heaven.

Scott Hahn

#96. Loft living is the antithesis of suburban domesticity, if only because the open spaces don't easily accommodate family life. Lofts also offer residents the opportunity - and responsibility - to structure their own space to reflect what's important to them.

Virginia Postrel

#97. Families are where children live. Almost everything they experience is in the context of family life.

Mike Berenstain

#98. Getting married has certainly made a massive difference to my own life. So I am committed to giving support for family finances and having the right policies for work-life balance that make it easier for couples to have a rich family life.

Gordon Brown

#99. If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.

Theresa May

#100. I am a Muslim. I am a practising Muslim. I don't - i accept proper relationship with a man and woman and the family life. It is not our business to knock at every door and checking people's orientation and casting aspersions or having prejudice against people.

Anwar Ibrahim