Acting is just a way of making a living; the
family is life.
- Denzel Washington
Poverty, race, ethnicity and immigration status
are not in themselves determinative of student
achievement. Demography is not destiny. The amount
of melanin in a student's skin, the home country
of her antecedents, the amount of money in the
family bank account, are not the inexorable
determinants of academic success. The evidence
introduced at trial demonstrates that these
negative life experiences can be overcome by
public schools with sufficient resources well
deployed. It is the clear policy of the state, as
formulated by the Regents and S.E.D. [State
Education Department], that all children can
attain the substantive knowledge and master the
skills expected of high school graduates. The
court finds that the city's at-risk children are
capable of seizing the opportunity for a sound
basic education if they are given sufficient
resources.
- Justice Leland DeGrasse
Supreme Court of the State of New York
The family you come from isn't as important as the
family you're going to have.
- Ring Lardner
You would think that those who are always talking
about family values would want to create an
environment of permanent relationships for people
of the same sex. But they're not advocating family
values. They're advocating their values.
- Willie Brown
Mayor, San Francisco
If you don't know [your family's] history, then
you don't know anything. You are a leaf that
doesn't know it is part of a tree.
- Michael Chrichton
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -
very gently.
- Chinese Proverb
Where can a person be better than in the bosom of
their family?
- Marmontel Gretry
Okay, conservatives have changed my mind. Allowing
gay marriage, I have been persuaded, will destroy
the family, weaken Western civilization, turn
America into Sodom and Gomorrah, increase the
trade deficit with Japan, endanger the family farm
and promote tooth decay. The impeccable logic of
conservative opponents is simply too powerful to
deny.
- Stephen Chapman, Chicago Tribune columnist
I was a disgrace to the family, of course. They
weren't very happy. It was a long struggle. But
now they see that repression is not good: A person
will do what he or she wants to do, eventually.
- Ang Lee
nominated for the Oscar for best director, as quoted by CNN
We must never feel that it is okay to say that a
sucker fish is of more value under law than a farm
family.
- Gordon Smith
Oregon Senator, protesting the federal government's decision to cut off an irrigation project that is the primary source of water for 250,000 acres of mostly family-owned farmland in the Klamath River Basin in California and Oregon.
The principle of using interactivity as a
creativity-builder is not restricted to computer
games. Once we become fully conscious of this
principle, we can find ways to become more
interactive everywhere. We can make conversations
with our family and friends more interactive than
they once were. The more thoughtful our questions
get to be, the more interactive the conversations
- Steve Chandler
100 Ways to Motivate Yourself
I can get up in the morning and look myself in the
mirror and my family can look at me too and that's
all that matters.
- Lance Armstrong
Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.
- Wayne H
To put the world right in order, we must first put
the nation in order; to put the nation in order,
we must first put the family in order; to put the
family in order, we must first cultivate our
personal life; we must first set our hearts right.
- Confucius
My family is really boring. They have a coffee
table book called 'Pictures We Took Just to Use Up
the Rest of the Film.'
- Penelope Lombard
A healthy family is sacred territory.
- Unknown
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a
tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it,
whoever you are, you need one.
- Jane Howard (1935-1996)
US journalist, writer
One loyal friend is better than ten thousand
family members.
- Unknown
Your family and your love must be cultivated like
a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be
summoned constantly to keep any relationship
flourishing and growing.
- Jim Rohn
Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not
an anxious discipline in which everybody is
constantly graded for performance.
- Milton R. Saperstein