Quotes About The Family You Make

#1. it is the family you make, not the one you are born into, that matters.

Sarah J. Maas

#2. I think for all the women who are working parents it's difficult to balance your work-life and your home-life. You make obvious sacrifices because you really just want to be with your family.

Kate Hudson

#3. Things like dating, family, and friends are just so valuable to me and I didn't want to put any strain on any of those relationships and you can see how the cameras around people can make people a little bit loopy. I didn't want to bring that into my life.

Whitney Port

#4. Some surveyors live for the work, putting in weeks or months at a time in remote locations. With a young family and hobbies that I'm passionate about, that isn't the path I've chosen. Like in many careers, you need to make your own decisions and follow your own path.

Mark Mason

#5. Every single day, no matter who you meet in the day - friends, family, work colleagues, strangers - give joy to them. Give a smile or a compliment or kind words or kind actions, but give joy! Do your best to make sure that every single person you meet has a better day because they saw you.

Rhonda Byrne

#6. You can't just cast aside family members because they seem uninterested in you. You've got to make the effort, because they're family.

J.D. Vance

#7. I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.

Park Geun-hye

#8. My entire life had been this long, pressured conversation about the family I represented. 'When you walk out the door, you represent us. You have to dress well and make sure your hair is combed.'

Armie Hammer

#9. Because isn't that what the holidays are all about - letting your family make you wish you were an orphan?

Shelly Laurenston

#10. When God blesses you, not only will He bless you personally, but He will bless your family, your field, your crops, and your land. According to Deuteronomy 28, God will take you who used to be the tail and make you the head.

T.D. Jakes

#11. Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.

Malachy McCourt

#12. You should never value people according to the size of their bank balances. Being poor does not make them bad and being rich does not make them good

Jackie Ballard

#13. learned that life is as simple or as complicated as you make it. I had chosen to simplify my life to include only the best things: my family, friends, and the mountains.

Jeff Alt

#14. For a long time, I tried to make my ilfe work, to make our family work. I got tired, though. Five children wears you out until the only thing left inside you, the only thing you've got to give, is a memory of what you thought you'd be.

Amy Franklin-Willis

#15. You should own stuff, but make sure they are indispensable stuff. A family of three can simplify to the point of owning just three beds, two couches, three dressers, one table, few chairs, one desk, eight plates, eight glasses, eight bowls and some toys and books for the kids.

George Lucas

#16. Wake up! No one is going to save you. No one is going to take care of your family or your retirement. No one is going to "make things" work out for you. The only way to do so is to utilize every moment of every day at 10X levels.

Grant Cardone

#17. Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it's surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you.

Wil Wheaton

#18. Blood doesn't make family, and time and distance doesn't break it. Like the moon, family will always be there, even when it's too dark to see it. Keep strong and it will light your way home, wherever you are.

June Stevens Westerfield

#19. 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

#20. I'm still unsure as to what draws people together, that is, beyond the really ugly things: money, beauty, family, desperation. But I suppose that if someone can make you feel like you are seeing a new world, or just an old one of the first time, you might decide that you love to be around them.

Dana Vachon

#21. When my son was growing up, I was always guilty, no matter what I did. Make decisions and be happy with the decisions you've made. I tell myself, in the long run, it's the love, the quality of relationships that you have with your family, your friends and giving back to the community that matters.

Padmasree Warrior

#22. I think you have to plan ahead. When I go to the market on a Saturday, and I'm buying for family and friends, I'm thinking about what I'm going to eat on the weekend but also about what I'm going to make for the following week.

Alice Waters

#23. The time spent on family is not a sacrifice. You are living a life with choices; when you make the right ones, you have a good life.

Laura Schlessinger

#24. I never want to make screw-you money like the rest of the financial services industry.

Dan Price

#25. It was easy to make good choices when you had a web of people supporting you, not to mention money as a safety net when everyone else in your family did the right thing, went to the right college, held down a job.

Jennifer Weiner

#26. POPPY (standing up to Paul): We're different. You make appointments to see your family. You're careful with what you say and do around people. You care about the opinions of strangers.

None of that makes any fricking sense to me, but I respect your decisions to care about pointless crap.

Bijou Hunter

#27. Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.

Salma Hayek

#28. Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of tribal, family, and personal history make this book unforgettable. Doubters and Dreamers is a master-piece.

Leslie Marmon Silko

#29. When you hold your baby for the first time. All the pain in your life disappears. You'll sacrifice many things for your children, your family. It's hard to watch them make the wrong decisions.

Catherine Bybee

#30. I don't need him to comfort me or tell me it's okay.
I can make it okay, myself.
Maybe that was what happened when you faced the very worst thing in the world.
She'd lost her family and her old life and maybe even her childhood, but she'd found herself.
And that would have to do.

L.J.Smith

#31. If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

Stephen Covey

#32. Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they're driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you.

Jenna Morasca

#33. I'm not going to live my life unhappy and why should he and we talk about it and I think what's great about the film is that it shows is the meaning of family doesn't have to be as traditional as it once was, like you can make a family.

Nia Long

#34. Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

Hilary Swank

#35. You dumb-ass ape, get your hand off me. What - are you the first in your family to be born without a tail?

Cherise Sinclair

#36. Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#37. Make intercessory prayer a priority in your life and the life of your family. It will cause you to be more empathetic, less self-obsessed, and increasingly more like Christ.

Monica Johnson

#38. Tate lays her head on my arm, and we both watch her.
Our daughter.
I love you so much, Sam.
I'm looking down at the perfection we created when it hits me.
It's all worth it.
It's the beautiful moments like these that make up for the uglylove.

Colleen Hoover

#39. If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work.

Edwin Starr

#40. Be fair in all your dealings, may it be in your family or in your business. At the end of it all, what matters is not how much money you make but how honest you are.

Andrew Gotianun

#41. Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.

Joshua Foer

#42. Just continue to "walk in the light" you have been given, and leave the future in God's hands. If He is calling you to do a job, He will make it possible for you to care for your family and overcome any other barriers to that responsibility.

James C. Dobson

#43. It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work.

Andy Grove

#44. The second rule is family is a choice."
I thought about that. "You can't choose your family. It's all blood relations."
"Family consists of people you care about, who care about you, who try to make an effort.

C.L.Stone

#45. He [David Foster Wallace] compares raising children to raising books, you should take pride in the work you do inside a family and not from how they make out in the world. "It's good to want a child to do well, but it's bad to want that glory to reflect back on you," is what he says.

David Lipsky

#46. 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

#47. I think when someone is injured in your family, you want to speak to the individual and you want to hear their voice and you want to make sure they are OK.

Roger Goodell

#48. Don't worry so much where you live but how you live. Make the family of man your family as well.

Edgar Cayce

#49. A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'

Michael Eisner

#50. For the millennium [New Year's Eve], you really have a choice to make. You either have to be naked with your head on fire and a shotgun in Bali or else you have to spend time with friends or family around the fireplace. And I'm choosing option B

Tom Morello

#51. If there's on thing I've learned over the eons,It's that you cant give up on your family,no matter how tempting they make it.

Rick Riordan

#52. All the trouble you will cause by not leaving a will. All the heartache! Family feuds are going to happen anyway, so be as clear as you can. And even if it's only to leave it to the cat's home, make a will.

Joanna Lumley

#53. That was the beauty of Family, Dakota decided, you knew what it took to make them bleed. The magic was in choosing not too.

Ann Simko

#54. I had a friend whose family had dinner together every day. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. It just seemed so amazing to me.

Moon Unit Zappa

#55. The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Virat Kohli

#56. You make allowances for your family. They may not seem normal to the world but they're normal to you because you've been dealing with them all your life.

John Dufresne

#57. We try to surround ourselves with love and light. You have to be there for each other. As a family, we are trying to make sure everything Dad worked so hard for carries on into the future.

Bindi Irwin

#58. If you make a film set in London or in Pakistan or wherever, the thing that interests me is the relationships between individuals - individuals and society, individuals and their family, their girlfriend or boyfriend, it's all the same idea.

Michael Winterbottom

#59. The point is, you have family and friends who love you. You have a world out there just waiting for you to conquer it. You have a life that will be anything you make it. That's the point.

Malorie Blackman

#60. The choices that you make with your family today will determine the quality of life in your family tree for generations to come.

Steve Farrar

#61. You make a movie to entertain audiences. That's why you make a movie. The product sales is because people love the characters, and to me, that is a testament to how our movie has become so ingrained in family's homes all around the world and that's why I make movies.

John Lasseter

#62. I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can. No matter how busy we are as a family, we always make that time to have that 'family together' day because we want to. You can't let work and life get in the way of spending time together.

Tahj Mowry

#63. Obviously, your family life is the priority, but there's still other stuff you have to get done in a day. I think the way I make it work is by taking care of myself, and that includes fitness and eating right and all those things, but also by being very organized and punctual.

Cindy Crawford

#64. Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn't guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make happiness harder to find because you have to live up to akk that expectation.

V.C. Andrews

#65. What is it to enjoy life? Sit at the beach? No. What it is is that you have to do something, you have be productive, make a contribution to the society, to the family, to yourself.

Frank Lowy

#66. There is more to this life than love, Helene Aquilla. There is duty. Empire. Family. Gens. The men you lead. The promises you make.

Sabaa Tahir

#67. If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.

Fede Alvarez

#68. The act of being an entrepreneur is a theological act: it is a belief that God has given you the tools to go out, make money and take care of your family.

Paul Zane Pilzer

#69. Your family is what you make it. The family is the people who protect and love you no matter what it costs them in the end. Family is who you keep coming back to even when all you want to do is run away.

Bethany-Kris

#70. At least we have the record, Henry thought. A reminder of a place where people didn't seem to care what you looked like, where you were born, or where your family was from. When the music played, it didn't seem to make one lick of difference if your last was Abernathy or Anjoy, Kung or Kobayashi.

Jamie Ford

#71. The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don't. But, in the end, they're the people you always come home to. Sometimes it's the family you're born into and sometimes it's the one you make for yourself.

Candice Bergen

#72. Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.

Jonathan Sacks

#73. understand, I will forbid it. This is not a decision for the family to make. It is a medical decision." "You forbid it?" Najid laughed. "You are mistaken,

Bobby Adair

#74. I love you enough to never make you choose.

Katie McGarry

#75. Having control over your schedule is the only way that women who want to have a career and a family can make it work.

Mary Matalin

#76. Live the life you wish to, date the man you wish to date, and stop looking to your family for affirmation for the choices that you make. Life is full of risks. You can't live your life in fear of how people will judge you for following your dreams.

David Sullivan

#77. You don't pick your family, you take what you're given and you make the best of it.

Joe Abercrombie

#78. Browsing our local farmer's market is one of my family's favorite weekend activities. Make it a relaxing, healthful habit for your family, and you'll reap the nutritional rewards.

Suzanne Somers

#79. Hurt can make you blind to the truth

Abby Clements

#80. I taught my sons to be men. I don't care who they love. I care about how they act. The moment they stop having manners or treat someone poorly, then we'll have words. Other than that, I only want them to be happy, and if you make Kane happy, then all I have to say to ye is welcome to the family.

Rhys Ford

#81. We a family, carin' for each other. Family make us strong in times of trouble. We all stick together, help each other out. That the real meanin' of family. When you grow up, you take that family feelin' with you.

Kathleen Grissom

#82. Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God's own heart.

Elizabeth George

#83. If you make a good family movie, then everybody in the family can relate to somebody, or in this case something. That's always enjoyable. There's always an important place for family movies.

Dwayne Johnson

#84. Choosing to break up your family is one of the most difficult decisions you will make in a lifetime. But once you have come to it; it will be with certainty. Certainty that you are ready to embrace the changes, the challenges and the joys of starting a new life.

Lisa Thomson

#85. The world needs opportunities for new leaders and new ideas. Kids need opportunities to lead and succeed. Are you ready to make the match? Because the world's problems shouldn't be the human family's heirloom.

Adora Svitak

#86. If the family you came from sucked, make up a new one. Look at all the people there are to choose from. If the family you are in hurts, get on the bus. Like now.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#87. If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#88. Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male ... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.

Jacques Pepin

#89. You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.

Mario Puzo

#90. What happens in the context of war is that, in order for you to make a child into a killer, you destroy everything that they know, which is what happened to me and my town. My family was killed, all of my family, so I had nothing.

Ishmael Beah

#91. People often say that having a family makes you make safer choices. It's been the total opposite for me. It's really made me want to make bolder choices.

Jamie Cullum

#92. Don't make excuses; rather, find support and resources to make good things happen for yourself, your family, your businesses, your community, and the world you live in.

Anna Stevens

#93. If you are accredited by the National Association for Family Child Care, or if you have a Child Development Associate Credential, be sure to highlight these accomplishments; they are objective signs of quality, and you should make

Tom Copeland JD

#94. I've never been comfortable with the idea of using family and friends in stories. Which is why it takes me longer than something else. Because you make them up out of nothing. Doing that is harder.

Edward P. Jones

#95. Writing can be a tough gig. Whenever you do something in which you put yourself out there - if that becomes the focus of your life, you miss the point of living. You've really got to get the grounding of family and the things that are important in your life and make that your focus.

R.A. Salvatore

#96. There's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius

Rick Riordan

#97. Tryptophan: a chemical in turkey meat rumored to make you sleepy and careless. One of the many minefields in the landscape of the family Thanksgiving.

Karen Joy Fowler

#98. L.A. is cool. If I could have the rest of my family out there, I think it would make it that much better for me. As far as work and the weather, you can't really beat it. I just wish they had the New York social life out there. That would make it perfect.

Michael B. Jordan

#99. It just shows that you may make a great stir in the world and yet sadly fail to impress the members of your own family.

W. Somerset Maugham

#100. 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