“If you want to make a positive impact, no matter how far-reaching, start at home. Treat your family members like treasures.” IfsWantMatterHomeMotivationalMembersTreatsImpactTreasureOur FamilyReachingFamily MembersPositive Impact Author:John C. Maxwell
“If you look good, are in good health, and feel good about yourself, then you'll be more productive at work, you will be happier in your relationships with your friends and your family, and consequently, you will be a more productive, contributing member of society, making the world a better place for all. And, it all starts by working on yourself.” IfsWorldFeelsLooksMembersFeel GoodOur FamilyProductiveAbout YourselfOur RelationshipBetter PlaceGood HealthContributingWorking On Yourself Author:Lee Labrada
“We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.” FacesFamilyMembersOur Family Book:A house and its head Source: A house and its head
“We need to have profound compassion for the people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life, and sexual identity disorders. This is a very real issue. It's not funny, it's sad. Any of you who have members of your family that are in the lifestyle-we have a member of our family that is. This is not funny. It's a very sad life. It's part of Satan, I think, to say this is gay. It's anything but gay.” PeopleThinkingNeedsRealCompassionIssuesIdentityGayMembersProfoundLifestyleOur FamilySatanDisorderVery SadDysfunctionSad Life Author:Michele Bachmann
“When you have a family as big as mine, there are many things that affect my family members, in many different ways. It could be high blood pressure, it could be cholesterol, it could be obesity, it could be sleep deprivation or sleep apnea. An illness is an illness, especially if it affects younger kids. Illnesses affect your family and they impact you because you want to do the best you can to help your family member become more healthy, just as my family members want me to be healthy.” IfsWayWantDifferentHelpingBigsKidsSleepBloodMinesHealthyMembersMy FamilyPressureImpactIllnessOur FamilyDifferent WaysWant MeDo The BestObesityFamily MembersDeprivationBlood PressureCholesterolHigh Blood PressureSleep Deprivation Author:Queen Latifah
“We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents--but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards--and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.” NeedsHumansChildrenNationsSocialParentHuman BeingsEducationSocietyConditionsMembersOrganizationInstitutionsWorkersDetermineNeighborOur FamilyBoardsSufficientCommitteesBeing HumanSocial InstitutionsNeighbors And Friends Author:Urie Bronfenbrenner
“In our family we have always had, and still have, this understanding: the problem of each member of the family is everybody's problem.” StillsProblemUnderstandingFamilyMembersOur Family Author:Raisa Gorbacheva
“By seeing a same-sex couple in ordinary situations, that it might make people think twice about if they have, you know, questions about acceptance of LGBT equality, it's one way to just say that, you know, 'We're members of your family and gay people are like anybody else.'” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayMightSexSituationSeeingAcceptanceCoupleGayMembersOrdinaryOne WayOur FamilyLgbtGay PeopleThink Twice Author:George Takei
“If you're prematurely born or if you have things happening when you're like a baby being born. If you have to learn how to walk right or if there's something wrong with your gait or just physical things that are happening. Illnesses affect your family and they impact you because you want to do the best you can to help your family member become more healthy.” IfsWantHelpingBornWalksBabyHealthyMembersHappeningsImpactIllnessThings HappenOur FamilyDo The BestFamily MembersPhysical ThingsGaitBabies Being Born Author:Queen Latifah
“When you have an animal in your home, a relationship forms very quickly, where that animal ceases to be an animal to you. It feels like a member of your family.” FeelsHomeFormAnimalMembersCeaseOur Family Author:Elijah Wood
“Hiphop allows you to get your love ones, your family members up out of the hood and that sh-t sounds cliché, but it's true. So when I think of hiphop, I just think of all the opportunity it's provided, of all the places it's taking me.” ThinkingOpportunitySoundMembersOur FamilyHoodFamily Members Author:Jon Connor
“The gang may be a safer place than home, but it's not without its problems. In some instances, especially in the Latino community, the boys have very traditional views of femininity even though they are gang members. The girls can be [seen] as sexually available, but not the good girl that you want to take home to your family, even by young men in the gangs.” MenWantMayProblemHomeYoungGirlCommunityViewsBoysMembersAvailableTraditionalInstanceOur FamilyYoung ManFemininityGangLatinoSexuallyGood GirlGang Members Author:Meda Chesney-Lind
“You might be a redneck if the richest member of your family bought a house and you have to help take the wheels off of it.” IfsHelpingMightHouseMembersOur FamilyWheelsRedneckYou Might Be A Redneck If Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“Perhaps there has never been a time when we had greater need to pray and to teach our family members to pray. Prayer is a defense against temptation. It is through earnest and heartfelt prayer that we can receive the needed blessings and the support required to make our way in this sometimes difficult and challenging journey we call mortality.” WayNeedsSometimesDifficultChallengesPrayerTeachSupportGreaterJourneyPrayingNeededBlessingMembersDefenseTemptationOur FamilyMortalityEarnestHeartfeltFamily Members Author:Thomas S. Monson
“I really wanted to get out of that cycle in our family where somebody's taking revenge on somebody for some slight that happened thirty years ago, and the only way to assert one's existence is by climbing over the body of an unfortunate sibling, or with a fellow family member, and you end up even unconsciously rejoicing in the other person's unhappiness and being like, I am happy because I can see how unhappy these other people are.” PeopleWayYearsPersonsI CanEndsBodyWantedExistenceHappenedMembersYears AgoFellowsRevengeUnhappyOur FamilyThirtyCyclesUnhappinessClimbingRejoiceUnfortunateSiblingBecause I CanThirty YearsFamily MembersTaking Revenge Author:Marco Roth
“I think that's actually what draws me to family stories: the various roles we each play with each member of our families, and how different they can be from who we are with our friends and partners and lovers. I'm endlessly fascinated by how we navigate these family dynamics; they are the dramas each of us live out day after day, often in ways we don't even realize.” ThinkingWayDifferentPlayStoriesRealizingRolesLoversDramaMembersDrawsVariousPartnersOur FamilyWho We AreFascinatedNavigateDynamics Author:Christopher Castellani
“The challenge of course is in sobriety and that's been the blessing, to realize, to take accountability for the ways that your own thinking impacts your happiness, and your serenity, and your ability to be a productive and a loving, giving member of your family and society.” ThinkingWayGivingCoursesRealizingChallengesAbilityBlessingMembersImpactOur FamilyProductiveAccountabilitySerenitySobriety Author:Bonnie Raitt
“Because I support the Second Amendment doesn't mean that I want people who shouldn't have guns to be able to threaten you, kill you or members of your family.” PeopleWantMeanAbleSupportMembersGunOur FamilyAmendmentsSecond Amendment Author:Hillary Clinton
“In the past members of my family on both my mother's and father's side have fought in the war, in the first and second World Wars. Unfortunately, they're dead and I wasn't able to speak to them, but that was in our family history too.” WorldFirstsWarAblePastMotherFatherSpeakSidesMembersMy FamilyOur FamilyWar Of The WorldsSecond World WarFamily History Author:PJ Harvey
“We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. The Syrians are members of our family.” LongMembersOur Family Author:Desmond Tutu
“The Greek tragedies and comedies are like a roadmap to all the ways in which trying to live this rich, full life can go wrong. You could get into a war. You could find that you have members of your family on the wrong side of a political crisis. You could be raped. You could find that your child has gone crazy because of some horrible experience she's had.” WayTryingChildrenWarPoliticalSidesGoneRichComedyCrazyMembersTragedyOur ChildrenCrisisHorribleGreekOur FamilyYour ChildrenFull LifeGreek TragedyTragedy And ComedyGone CrazyHorrible Experience Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.” HumansCoursesMembersAbuseAdmireCooksOur FamilyBeastPetCompanionHouseholdCagesFamily MembersLaborersPests Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.” MembersOur FamilySentimentalAuntHideousParish Author:Sister Parish