Quotes About Family Who Aren't Blood

#1. Because the things you do for blood - for family - well, I think they cause most of us more problems than can be fairly called our share. And the things you do for the people you call family who aren't blood ... some of them are even worse.

Robert J. Crane

#2. He was like dessert without the calories. He was cake and chocolate and everything delicious in the universe. She wanted more, and she had no problem asking for it.

Lauren Blakely

#3. Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.

Kim Yuna

#4. A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.

Stanislav Grof

#5. Law of attraction says: "We'll give you whatever it is you say and focus on." and so if you are complaining about how bad it is, what you're creating is more of how bad it is.

Jack Canfield

#6. I don't want to be no more than what I am.

Joe Frazier

#7. When I began to direct, I began to understand and realise that everything that I'd learnt, both in music and dance and in the theatre, seemed to come together as a director, and I began to enjoy it. And slowly I let the acting go.

George Ogilvie

#8. At sixteen, you still think you can escape from your father. You aren't listening to his voice speaking through your mouth, you don't see how your gestures already mirror his; you don't see him in the way you hold your body, in the way you sign your name. You don't hear his whisper in your blood.

Salman Rushdie

#9. I don't know if You can hear me,
Or if You're even there,
I don't know if You will listen
To a gypsy's prayer,
Yes, I know I'm just an outcast,
I shouldn't speak to You
But still I see Your face and wonder
Were You once an outcast too?

Stephen Schwartz

#10. Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.

Kate Millett

#11. Luxury brands are about elite access. In consumer goods, that's elite cost. In education, it's elite criteria for admission. Minerva is maintaining those high standards, but not artificially limiting the number of people who can meet it ... This really may be redefining education.

Kevin Harvey

#12. I only take causes or write about things that I am passionate about, and I do it with a certain flair and a sort of wink and a nod.

Jason Calacanis

#13. But family connections are weird. Even if your relatives aren't good to you, they're still your blood. You can't lose that connection completely. And believe me, I've got a few relatives on my dad's side I'd love to lose.

Rick Riordan

#14. Feeding plants to animals then eating the animals is like filtering water through a sewer then drinking it.

Bruce Friedrich

#15. I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.

Jacques-Louis David

#16. Some women pick men to marry
and others pick them to pieces.

Mae West

#17. For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts.

Naomi Wolf

#18. The family we're born into is important, sure, but they're not all we have. They're not all we are. A part of life is making your own family. That's the beauty of it all." I smile softly. "Do you have a big family?" "I do," he says, "but most of us aren't blood related.

J.M. Darhower

#19. I'm trying to be myself more and more. The more confidence you have in yourself ... the more you realize that this is you, and life isn't long. So get on with it!

Kylie Minogue

#20. Truth be told the one's you love the most aren't blood related

Shellie Palmer