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Quotes About Family

My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.
~ Bruno Tonioli
No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.
~ Hilda Solis
Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.
~ William Julius Wilson
It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.
~ Dawn French
Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.
~ Jeff Bridges
Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.
~ Ethel Waters
Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick.
~ Nhat Hanh
I work with wonderful people who support me. And, my beliefs are that the business needs to serve the family rather than the family serve the business.
~ Kathy Ireland
The good news is that women's roles have changed so dramatically over the past three decades that women now expect to have careers, balance work and family, express their individual autonomy.
~ Michael Kimmel
Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
~ Gary Becker
I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.
~ Stephen Covey
My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.
~ Jim Carrey
I am a total loser, in every aspect of my life. I rarely go out. I have a great family and we spend all our time together. I work hard and play hard with them.
~ Sean Hannity
If your religion does not work at home, don't export it.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot.
~ Meshell Ndegeocello
Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God could have an ethnically diverse family of Jews and Gentiles.
~ Derwin L. Gray
If you're not going to do your job, get out of here. Don't mess up my work. This is how I feed my family.
~ Terrence Howard
I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.
~ Ira Levin
It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
~ Patricia Heaton
I'm just excited about life. Life is really good right now with my family and friends, and being able to work with people I respect.
~ Regina Hall
Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever."
~ Gene Perret
I know I wanted to be with somebody and have children. My heart comes before my work.
~ Peggy Lipton
Nebraskans know the true meaning of life... work, spending time with loved ones, and Saturdays in the fall.
~ Jason Peter
I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.
~ Matt Dillon