Quotes about family

A collection of quotes on the topic of family.

„The real reason people are conservatives is that they are attached to the things that they love, and want to preserve them from abuse and decay. They are attached to their family, their friends, their religion, and their immediate environment. They have made a lifelong distinction between the things that nourish and the things that threaten their security and peace of mind.“

— Roger Scruton English philosopher 1944
"Conservatism and the Conservatory," https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/427945/conservatism-and-conservatory, National Review (December 2015).

Love, People, Peace, Religion

„We work with broken families and broken people who've lost hope and are helpless.“

— Kailash Satyarthi Indian children's rights activist 1954
Times of India interview (2014), Context: We work with broken families and broken people who've lost hope and are helpless. If people oppose my work, launch personal attacks, we know that we are on the right path. One colleague was shot, another was beaten to death. I've injuries all over my body. We work against a social evil. If this evil isn't reacting it means we aren't a threat.

People, Hope

„The Tenczyn castle dates from the 14th century and it was built as a defensive edifice by Andrzej Toporczyk who after some time took the name of Tenczyński - after the name of the place. For many years the castle was a source of power of the family who played an important part in the politics of old Poland.“

— Marek Żukow-Karczewski Polish historian, journalist and opinion journalist 1961
Tenczyn - a "Bastille"-type castle of the Tenczyński family, "Aura" 2, 1990-02, p. 19-21. http://yadda.icm.edu.pl/yadda/element/bwmeta1.element.agro-7ab5a4ef-bee9-490b-8838-4917699dfedc?q=d88195b-abee-4385-bd61-43f313e62483$6&qt=IN_PAGE

Time, Parting

„Family is not an important thing, it's everything.“

— Michael J. Fox Canadian-American actor 1961

„When I'm 80 years old and sitting on my rocking chair, I'll be reading Harry Potter. And my family will ask me: «After all this time?» and I'll say: «Always».“

— Alan Rickman English film, television and stage actor 1946 - 2016

Time, Reading

„We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule.“

— Dilma Rousseff 36th President of Brazil 1947
2010, First speech http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/01/dilma-rousseff-wins-brazil-president after being elected President, October 31.

Fate, Children

„The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.“

— Ashley Montagu British-American anthropologist 1905 - 1999
Interview on "The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson" promoting the latest edition of his book The Natural Superiority of Women (orig. 1952) Quoted in David Berg, Run, Brother, Run http://books.google.gr/books?id=FWwXuRNRup8C&dq=, Simon and Schuster, 2013, p. 242.

„I think that truth is the highest value, although it has to be embedded in love. What I mean by that is that truth should serve the highest good imaginable. For me, that is what is best for each individual, in the manner that is simultaneously best for the family, and the state, and nature itself. But you can only want that good if you love Being.“

— Jordan Peterson Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology 1962
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Love, Truth, Imagination, Nature

„If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?“

— Jamie Oliver British chef and media personality 1975

Food, Feeling

„Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.“

— Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II, Section 3, Member 2, Remedies against discontents.

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„Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.“

— James Brown American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist 1933 - 2006
Brown, J. & Tucker, B.B. (1986). James Brown: The Godfather of Soul. Macmillan: New York. ISBN 0-02517-430-4

Way, Forgetting

„I have a great family, I have great friends, and my mom is like my mama bear. She's the one that's going to tell me 'no' when everyone around me says 'yes.“

— Selena Gomez American singer and actress 1992

Moms

„You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.“

— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

„I am strong. I lived through a divorce, separation from my family. I never let it break me down. I’m not an alcoholic. I’ve never smoked, I’ve never done drugs. I’ve floated through the disaster of my past clean. I arrived here undamaged.“

— Tina Turner singer, dancer, actress, and author 1939
Tina Turner is a soul survivor http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/141823/Tina-Turner-is-a-soul-survivor, Daily Express, 22th of November 2009

Alcohol, Strong, Past

„On the day Billy was born, it was like walking through a mirror and everything was Technicolor. My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family it went into sudden widescreen.“

— Helena Bonham Carter British actress 1966
Guardian interview 3 Nov 2006 http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2006/nov/03/1

Life

„My family had a lot of characteristics—achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations—that all seemed to be recessive in me.“

— Susanna Kaysen, book Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted (1994)

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