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Quotes About Family

We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that... sometimes every week.
~ Melinda Gates
Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while and that was to help me get through school.
~ Mia Love
We only work four days a week, we only work three weeks out of the month, and we get four months off for the summer. So there's plenty of time for me to spend with the kids.
~ Patricia Heaton
For me, the family is more important, of course! I don't want to change my family, or situation, for work. But I think it is possible for these things not to fight each other.
~ Paz Vega
I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again.
~ Peter Fonda
Work is fundamental to the dignity of a person. . . . It gives one the ability to maintain oneself, one's family, to contribute to the growth of one's own nation.
~ Pope Francis
I want people to see how hard my husband and kids work on the ranch.
~ Ree Drummond
The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity than any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles.
~ Rex D. Pinegar
There was never any question with me as to which I would choose, my boy or my work. I had to have both.
~ Rheta Childe Dorr
Work together as a family, even if it may be faster and easier to do the job ourselves. Talk with our sons and daughters as we work together.
~ Robert D. Hales
The highest and noblest work in this life is that of a mother.
~ Russell M. Nelson
...you have to understand that motherhood has to be your priority. It's important work.
~ Salma Hayek
Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it's the biggest career decision you can make.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
I am saying that I was able to mold those hours around the needs of my family, and that matters. And I really encourage other people at Facebook to mold hours around themselves.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
I liked work shoes and big, working-class hands. The stars would come and go, but the crew on my movies was my extended family.
~ Shirley Temple
I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.
~ Stephen Covey
We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.
~ Thomas S. Monson
I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.
~ Uma Thurman
I don't have a nanny or a housekeeper, and I only have a cleaner for one hour each week. I finish work and go home. I cook the dinner. I run into Tesco and do the housework in the evening.
~ Victoria Beckham
The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.
~ Yehuda Amichai
Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
~ Zach Braff
I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.
~ Michael Jackson
The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
~ Florence Welch
You have to learn to balance work, family, a personal life; it is a part of life.
~ Juanes