Simple Family Quotes

#1. Nothing in my life had prepared me to see things that were strange or beyond belief. I was a simple kid in a simple town in a simple family. But what I saw then, right after the collapse of the woman, ripped the "simple" out of my understanding of the rules of the world, and changed my life forever.

James Dashner

#2. Some people start modeling because they want to be models and they want the parties and the recognition, and then there are people like me. I come from a simple family, and for me getting into modeling was a chance to make money and create a business.

Gisele Bundchen

#3. The closest she had been to them was certain summer evenings when they had gone for picnics in the magravine's ice-barge -- simple family affairs, just Freya and Mama and Papa and about seventy servants and courtiers

Philip Reeve

#4. My parents emigrated from Poland in 1924 with my brother, who was a few months old. They were from a simple family of Polish Jews. They were looking, I suppose, for a better economic life and were escaping from an anti-Semitic environment.

Francois Englert

#5. It's just fun to be on a movie set and looking to find the comedy in sweet, simple family moments.

Sean Astin

#6. My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.

David Ogden Stiers

#7. To do things, simple things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day ... was a man born just to endure those things and then die?

Charles Bukowski

#8. It was a gaze that held the comfort of familiarity. There was no mystery, no enigmatic depth, but unrestrained length, the length of years - the laughter of childhood games and Christmas carols of home - lining its pathways with simple, yet easily overlooked, understanding.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#9. These simple to prepare recipes should inspire anyone who wants to honor their body-God's Temple-and feed their family from a biblical perspective.

Jordan Rubin

#10. I was thinking how complicated life is and how there are no simple roads or paths. We are a fabric of mistakes and hurts; a family tree of fumbled attempts, successes and failures.

Belinda Jeffrey

#11. Prospero the Enchanter's immediate reaction upon meeting his daughter is a simple declaration of: Well, fuck.

Erin Morgenstern

#12. If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.

Emily Blunt

#13. Two elements enter into successful and happy gatherings at table. The food, whether simple or elaborate, must be carefully prepared; willingly prepared; imaginatively prepared. And the guests - friends, family or strangers - must be conscious of their welcome.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#14. Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.

Brandi L. Bates

#15. She never wanted an extravagant life-- only one filled with simple joys like children, family, friendship, good books, funny jokes, and a pint of mint chocolate chip ice cream.

S.A. Huchton

#16. I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.

Khaled Hosseini

#17. 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

#18. The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.

Helen Keller

#19. Barbara, you have done it again! Sweet Salt Air is a fabulous story of friendship, betrayal, courage and love with family and friends. Having been raised in Maine, she writes 'to the T, in describing beautiful and simple lives on a Maine Island.

Barbara Delinsky

#20. What I miss the most is chatting with my friends and family and having a good laugh over a simple meal.

Kim Yuna

#21. Uncle Acton spent the whole of his working life in India, for the simple reason that he gave up work very young.

Rosemary Sutcliff

#22. ...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process,

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#23. For me, making music is about my whole life. The basics, the components, simple things - family, living, just going to the market and getting new fruit and veg. That's what keeps my blood flowing.

Neneh Cherry

#24. Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that!

Charles Studd

#25. I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.

Bernie Taupin

#26. The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed.

Billy Graham

#27. Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing, poking you until you've changed into that very simple shape.

Allan Gurganus

#28. Through everything when you have these experiences in life it is important to remember the simple fact that family is always the main thing and most important part of your life.

Ekaterina Gordeeva

#29. The American family shattered for the simple reason that it was American, not global.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#30. I like to see photographs: I like to see my family. To me, when I open a basic browser, and it's that very elegant silver simple user interface, I am unhappy. I don't need elegant and silver and simple!

Mitchell Baker

#31. I suppose building a healthy family is possible. Maybe what children really need is simple. Maybe they just need somebody to show them it's okay to be human.

Donald Miller

#32. I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.

Amy Adams

#33. This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.

Richard Peck

#34. Years go by, but the heart of what we all fight and die for at the core is the same. We fight and die for love and our family and our land and for what's ours. We do things for something as simple as pride.

Matt Barr

#35. Love in any relationship, family or an intimate friendship, is only about putting the other person's needs ahead of your own, and that, my friend, is just as simple and as complex as you make it.

Twinkle Khanna

#36. I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act of bringing that child into the world.

Cristina Henriquez

#37. But when she saw her eating with her hands, incapable of giving an answer that was not a miracle of simple-mindedness, the only thing that she lamented was the fact that the idiots in the family lived so long.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#38. It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.

Patrick Duffy

#39. In growing up in Seattle, I don't know a single family that didn't barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its own kind of simple, pared-down, what I call Pacific Northwest cooking.

Mario Batali

#40. It struck me that the beauty we attribute to children isn't something they have that we don't. It's something they do, which we have long since stopped doing - just describing things as we see them, the simple, unadorned facts.

Christina Carson

#41. 'WhatsApp' began as a simple idea: ensuring that anyone could stay in touch with family and friends anywhere on the planet, without costs or gimmicks standing in the way.

Jan Koum

#42. Judgments based on preconceptions make life simple for us to deal with since that means we safely shield ourselves behind barriers of preconception that helped us feel safe in whatever views or assumptions we are having.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#43. TV has gone back to basics, relating to middle class family with real characters, less make-up and simple shots. I feel as an actor it is a delight to work in such shows.

Mona Singh

#44. I like simple things. I like being in my family in the South and playing petanque.

Jean Dujardin

#45. At home I keep things simple with fish, pasta and soups and am often preparing stuff for the family.

Jean Reno

#46. Time with yourself, with your family, and with your God may prove to be the ultimate saving.

Doris Janzen Longacre

#47. I'm most passionate about anything to do with nature and the simple things. I love taking walks with my family or my friends and seeing nature. And that's why I love living where I live because I live up in the desert area in the mountains.

Atticus Shaffer

#48. Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.

Oliver Goldsmith

#49. There's no need for thanks. Family takes care of family. Simple as that.

Jennifer Estep

#50. I will go for a simple girl who's completely in tune with me and who gets along with my family.

Suresh Raina

#51. Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family.

Dalai Lama

#52. Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.

Richard Cecil

#53. I'm just a simple guy. I love being at my house with my family, I love playing dominos and card games and hunting and fishing. That's just what I like to do.

Jase Robertson

#54. Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the individual family will be reflected in the kind of society that these families create.

Virginia Satir

#55. We wanted a family so bad, all of us. And we just grabbed each another and made us one. Simple as that.

Cynthia Rylant

#56. I lead a simple life. I get residuals. I have a family; we're doing alright.

Robert Morse

#57. When I had asked Mrs. Flowers how she held up in the face of all the death and violence within her neighborhood, she had given me a simple answer: This family talks to God.

Jonathan Kozol

#58. I'm a family guy. A lot of my songs are inspired by my kids. Simple relationships. Watching them grow up, watching them share experiences with me and vice versa.

Five For Fighting

#59. We found that our kids enjoy those simple adventures we take as a family. I'm driving, my wife's the copilot and we give one kid a choice of what they want to go do. We eat a lot of bad food and sleep in some interesting hotels.

Mark Consuelos

#60. In life, there are a lot of expectations. I see why in the South, especially, there's a simple existence. People, whether they're cowboys or farmers or ranchers, you just get up, you do your job, you have a family, you come home.

Scott Haze

#61. 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

#62. I was like any other kid: very normal, I can say. I just was a simple kid that came from a humble family and was taught by my father to be a family man and be committed to them. I stepped into boxing following my older brothers.

Miguel Cotto

#63. KING & MAXWELL SERIES Split Second Hour Game Simple Genius First Family The Sixth Man

David Baldacci

#64. I just had his hand in a vise," I protested indignantly. "It wasn't like I had a dagger in his ribs. 'Hand in a vise' is simple assault or, in my case, self-defense. 'Dagger in the ribs' is attempted murder. My family did teach me the difference.

Lisa Shearin

#65. Society flourishes when and only when its molecular unit, the family, flourishes. We know that lasting improvement comes only in the small increments produced by individuals adhering to the simple rules of life ...

George Will

#66. I believe in faith, family and country. I really keep it that simple.

Sean Hannity

#67. And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped.

Anne Lamott

#68. If they criticise you before they cheer you on, they are not your people. Simple.

Nikki Rowe

#69. In order to be happy, every person must have:
1. Something meaningful to do.
2. Someone to love. (Friends and family and pets all count.)
3. Something to look forward to.
It's really that simple.

Mimi Strong

#70. My Christmases have always just been very simple and about family.

Julie Roberts

#71. 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

#72. The simple answer is I'd just be a guy trying to feed my family, like everybody else. The complicated answer is, I think I'd be in some sort of military or government world of some sort.

Antoine Fuqua

#73. Birthdays are just weird! I like to have something simple like a dinner with friends and family if possible.

Stephanie Sigman

#74. Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it's a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#75. It's wonderful to make a lot of money, to be able to take care of my family, to have the facilities I have and really support the people the studio's involved with. But at the end of the day I'm quite simple as an artist-it's really about the power of art.

Jeff Koons

#76. Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.

Sam Sheppard

#77. I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.

Thomas Jefferson

#78. My sister is going to have a simple wedding. Just immediate family. And whoever the hell would want to marry her.

Anthony Jeselnik

#79. The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#80. 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

#81. So I say, "Live and let live." That's my motto. "Live and let live." And anyone who can't go along with that, take him outside and shoot the motherfucker. It's a simple philosophy, but it's always worked in our family.

George Carlin

#82. As you celebrate your special day I hope you are showered with priceless gifts of love, thoughtfulness, friendships, family, laughter and good times. These are just a few simple presents that money can't buy and that you absolutely deserve! Happy Birthday!

Carlos Wallace

#83. I think a lot of the guys I know and a lot of people I've talked to, what they want is very often what most people want, a kind of simple life, a livelihood, a family, people who care about them, people they can care about. I think vets on the whole want the same things that everybody else does.

Kevin Powers

#84. Wouldn't it be great if life was only Legos? If we could give our kids the right, simple building blocks?

Chris Bent

#85. My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.

Mike Farrell

#86. A family is a group of people who are committed to loving and supporting one another. It's just that simple.

Sherri Saum

#87. Why do we complicate life, when it was meant to be very simple?

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#88. Kids leave us and go off on their own lives. Family members tell us what they think of us. Animals can't do that. They really are blank canvases, and we can project anything we want onto them. So the relationship is very pure and simple.

Jon Katz