Family Quotations..

• I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.
  Steve Ballmer # Fun, Brands, Family Quotes
• For families living in extreme poverty, who struggle each day and whose children are placed in care for economic and social reasons, this could be considered a joke. We could certainly have a better quality of life by, for example, spending a night at the opera.
  Jose Manuel Barroso # Family, Poverty, Challenging, Economic, Quality, Life Quotes
• The strength of our nation depends on the strength of our schools, especially those in large urban districts that serve so many of our children. Broad Prize finalist districts are doing what some say is impossible -- improving students' performance, regardless of their race or family income -- while at the same time closing persistent achievement gaps. Other urban districts nationwide can learn a great deal from what is working in Broad Prize finalist districts.
  Eli Broad # Nation, Strong, Education, Action, School, Improvement, Achievement, Family, Salary, Urban, Important Quotes
• While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses.
  Eli Broad # Pride, Money, Finance, Achievement, Losing, Time Management, Family, Enjoyment Quotes
• To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
  Gautama Buddha # Health, Inspirational, Happy, Enjoyment, Peace, Control, Family, Mind, Enlightenment, Wisdom Quotes
• A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
  Gautama Buddha # Harmony, Family, Love Quotes
• Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.
  Carlos Castaneda # History, Life, Family, Friendship, Warrior, Angry, Thinking, Expectations Quotes
• When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.
  Jacques Chirac # Family Quotes
• Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
  Bill Clinton # Responsibility, Family, Society, Motivational Quotes
• Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is . . . For me, that balance is family, work, and service.
  Hillary Clinton # Family, Life, Work, Job, Enjoyment Quotes
• I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.
  Princess Diana # Family Quotes
• The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together — and that’s the backbone of our whole business, catering to families — that’s what we hope to do.
  Walt Disney # Family, Important, Business, Passion Quotes
• In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.
  Peter Drucker # Society, Religion, Family Quotes
• Our employees are like extended members of our family.
  Henry Ford # Employee, Family Quotes
• I'm happy we have three healthy children and we'll stay with three healthy children.
  Melinda Gates # Happy, Family, Positive Quotes
• Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
  Melinda Gates # Family, Different, Life, Change Quotes
• I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children.
  Melinda Gates # Private, Life, Family Quotes
• 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 # Work, Organization, Philanthropy, Family Quotes
• The correct attitude of the security analyst toward the stock market might well be that of a man toward his wife. He shouldn't pay too much attention to what the lady says, but he can't afford to ignore it entirely. That is pretty much the position that most of us find ourselves vis-à-vis the stock market.
  Ben Graham # Attitude, Stock Market, Focus, Family Quotes
• It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work.
  Andrew Grove # Family, Life, Company, Work Quotes
• I didn't want to repeat my parents' life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion.
  Hugh Hefner # Family, Passion, Life, Dream Quotes
• The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
  Lee Iacocca # Family Quotes
• My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.
  Steve Irwin # Family, Religion, Thinking, Inspirational Quotes
• Tomorrow I'll be heading out to count koalas in the wild. Then I'm off to work on an expansion project in the zoo. I may be wheeling concrete or doing interview. It's never the same, but Steve, Bindi and I are almost always together and I think that's one of the most important things as we're doing these adventures.
  Terri Irwin # Work, Changes, Family, Teamwork, Important Quotes
• We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security.
  Paul Keating # Conservative, Family, Wages, Job Quotes
• Kids. They're not easy. But there has to be some penalty for sex.
  Bill Maher # Children, Family, Punishment, Sex Quotes
• And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.
  Og Mandino # Family, Failure, Success, Inspirational Quotes
• You don't have to love your clients like they're your own children, but it helps. After all, you are going to have to be like a mother to them. Pick them up when they fall down, let them cry on your shoulder, hold the tissue when they blow their nose.
  Max Markson # Love, Clients, Family Quotes
• Right now I am focused on today. While my children do not have the same gifts as I do, they are talented in many other ways. It is so amazing to see the work God has done in all of our children.
  Joyce Meyer # Focus, Emotional, Family, Talent, God, Appreciation Quotes
• By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made.
  Kate Middleton # Fashion, Appreciation, Family, Clothes, Best, Enjoyment Quotes
• Obviously I would have loved to have met her and she's obviously she's an inspirational woman to look up to. Obviously on this day and you know going forward and things, you know it is a wonderful family, the members who I've met have achieved a lot and you know very inspirational and so, yes, I do. (Talking about Princess Diana)
  Kate Middleton # Family, Woman, Inspirational, Achievement Quotes
• I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, and sometimes those days are long days and you know I think if I know I'm working hard and I'm pulling my weight both work and playing hard at the same time, you know I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight and that's really what matters to me.
  Kate Middleton # Hard Work, Family, Family Business, Contribution, Effort Quotes
• Well again I think, if you … the people around home are very supportive to us and you know those are the people who really matter to us, our close friends and family and I think if sort of they feel you are doing the right thing you can only be sort of true to yourself and you sort of have to ignore a lot of what's said, obviously take it on board, but you know you have to be yourself really and that's how I have stuck by it really.
  Kate Middleton # Enjoyment, Family, Support, Self, Ignorance, Friendship Quotes
• People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
  Paul Newman # Society, Family Quotes
• As the world grows smaller, you might think it would be easier for human beings to recognize how similar we are; to understand that we're all basically seeking the same things; that we all hope for the chance to live out our lives with some measure of happiness and fulfillment for ourselves and our families.
  Barack Obama # World, Understanding, Happy, Hope, Family Quotes
• Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.
  Michelle Obama # Family, Help, Work, Job, Health, Organic Food, Healthy Food Quotes
• We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday.
  Michelle Obama # Family, Start, Changes, Challenging, Healthy Lifestyle, Wrong, Problem, Eating Quotes
• Policies that support families aren't political issues. They're personal. They're the causes I carry with me every single day.
  Michelle Obama # Family, Politics, Support, Emotional Quotes
• As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.
  Michelle Obama # Family, Responsibility, Questions, Children, Adult, Advertising, Effort, Best Quotes
• Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can't make a healthy choice.
  Michelle Obama # Information, School, Family, Healthy Food, Life Quotes
• Despite the enormous variety of human experience and beliefs, we are all fundamentally interested in the pursuit of a better quality of life for ourselves, our children, and our families.
  Pierre Omidyar # Experience, Life, Belief, Quality, Family, Future Quotes
• If there is lots of love in your life, if your family is close or your marriage is happy, you will tell me with pride and respect and gratitude how rich you feel, rich with love.
  Suze Orman # Life, Love, Family, Happy, Rich Quotes
• Because I have both boys and girls I have a greater respect for equality and making sure that gender is not an issue and that everyone is treated equally.
  Sarah Palin # Family, Respect, Equality Quotes
• Life is about compromise. You must figure out a way to maximize your time with your family. By spending your money to buy affection, you may be putting their future in jeopardy and making the problem worse.
  Dr.Phil # Life, Family, Money, Future, Problem Quotes
• Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means.. the bottom line.. then for me it's if the family is healthy and happy.
  Dr.Phil # Success, Happy, Imagination, Family, Disease, Different Quotes
• You must tell your spouse everything about your debt, income, financial strengths and weaknesses. No secrets allowed.
  Dave Ramsey # Family, Finance, Truth Quotes
• I told my children and grandchildren that "The fruit that you eat will never taste as beautiful as the fruit that I ate during the turmoil of war. You will never cherish it as much as I do."
  Li Ka Shing # Family, Appretiation Quotes
• If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
  Brian Tracy # Family, Achievement, Life, Great, Positive, Thinking Quotes
• You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
  Desmond Tutu # Choice, Family, God Quotes
• I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
  Zig Ziglar # Belief, Success, Life, Family, Business Quotes

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