Quotes of: Friends-and-family Keyword

Your best friends should bring out the best in you. If they don't, lose them; they are no friends.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business. (page iii)

a commentary on Jonah

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Emma

Why, on to the castle, to kill the royal family, and claim the throne that isn't mine by right!

The Black Adder

Stepparenting is like working at a late-night convenience store — all of the responsibility and none of the authority.

Blended Families An Anthology

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

Patrick J. Kennedy

If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.

Olafur Eliasson

I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life.

Tina Yothers

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Freya Stark

Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.

The 10 Best of Everything Families: An Ultimate Guide for Travelers

We have the ability to survive anything.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

Internal character: how you behave when no one is watching.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

Serving and attempting to inspire others is a responsibility, not a choice.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

In the marathon of life, there is no finish line.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

Who you are should not be defined by your achievements.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a...

Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

Your family should be there. Your family should always be there. What does it say about you if they aren't?

Inexcusable

I was sick of the body count that existed around my family. It seemed statistically that eventually the body count would include my family.

Sacrifice

That bowl was special because of the blue. It exactly matched your eyes.

A Mackenzie Family Christmas: The Perfect Gift

It's not blood that makes us who we are," Dad said. "It's family. And it's not blood that makes us family. It's love.

Looks Over

I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.

My Family and Other Animals