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Quotes About Family

Most people fantasize that if they won the lottery, they would quit their jobs and immerse themselves in leisure, play, family, parenthood, occasional thrilling sex; they'd eat when they were hungry and sleep whenever they felt sleepy. Many people, if they won the lottery and got rich quick, would want to live like elephants.
~ Carl Safina
The people know the salt of the seaand the strength of the windslashing the corners of the earth.The people take the earthas a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope.Who else speaks for the Family of Man?
~ Carl Sandburg
Let... others call me a hypocrite because I fired a gun in a moment of personal peril. I shall still be for strict gun control. But as long as authorities leave this society awash in drugs and guns, I will protect my family.
~ Carl T. Rowan, Jr.
My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.
~ Carla Bruni
My dad died at a point in his life when he was mentally at peace.
~ Carla Fine
we are all born from the same celestial seed; all of us have the same father, from which the earth, the mother who feeds us, receives clear drops of rain, producing from them bright wheat and lush trees, and the human race, and the species of beasts, offering up the foods with which all bodies are nourished, to lead a sweet life and generate offspring
~ Carlo Rovelli
There is something wrong in our country when a man can take away something that belongs to you and your family.
~ Carlos Bulosan
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
~ Carlos Fuentes
I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.
~ Carlos Ghosn
López Obrador es también conservador. Trabajo, Familia, Patria, la "trilogía reaccionaria" —según la denomina Alain Badiou— es enteramente suya. Obreros y campesinos trabajan. Las mujeres procrean a la familia. Los soldados defienden a la patria.
~ Carlos Illades
What you must understand is that according to the U.S. government, a parent does not own the rights to care for their own child. Instead, the true responsibility for childcare belongs to the state.
~ Carlos Morales
Children are six times more likely to die in foster homes than if they stayed in an abusive household
~ Carlos Morales
I know you think your publishing work is incredibly important, but it's really not significant in the grand scheme of things. Nothing is more important than having children. There's absolutely nothing that a parent shouldn't be willing to sacrifice for their sake." She wiped a tear away from her eye. "Even if you have to give up your own life.
~ Carlton Mellick III
I couldn't possibly be a good husband and father unless I had a job." "Then why not get a job?" "Nobody would ever hire me. I've tried. I'm unemployable.
~ Carlton Mellick III
You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.
~ Carly Fiorina
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
~ Carly Fiorina
Antigone by Sophocles.
~ Carly Fiorina
No. You just had breakfast, you piggy," Lexie said, bending to pat the tan fluffy dog on the head. "You're on a diet." Her sister tended to overfeed him
~ Carly Phillips
Lack of attention from Daddy made me think less of me and not less of him.
~ Carly Simon
Los dos no-cadáveres de mi mamá y María José mi hermana están en la zona de confusión que media entre la vida y la muerte.
~ Carmen Boullosa
Ella no le contestó. Yo la veía con su largo abrigo oscuro, su eterno sombrero, apoyada en apoyada en el hombro de la madre, inclinándose hasta tocar con su cabeza la blanca cabeza y tuve la sensación de encontrarme ante una de aquellas últimas hojas de otoño, muertas en el árbol antes de que el viento las arrastrase.
~ Carmen Laforet
Se estudiaban para la nota, No eran optativas. Aprobado en hija de familia. Aprobado en noviazgo. Aprobado en economía doméstica. Aprobado en trato conyugal y en deberes para con la parentela política. Aprobado en partos, Aprobado en suavizar asperezas, en buscar un sitio para cada cosa y en poner al mal tiempo buena cara. Aprobado en maternidad activa, , aunque esta asignatura por ser la más difícil, está sometida a continua revisión.
~ Carmen Martín Gaite
When no one is left to tell what happened, family histories keep their secrets.
~ Carmen Posadas
I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.
~ Carol Alt