Family Ties Quotes:

I tell you of all history the most beautiful product is the family tie.

- Zona Gale

source: Zona Gale (2013). “Miss Lulu Bett: A Play in Three Acts”, p.47, Lulu.com

topic: Beautiful, Ties, Family Ties

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

- Virginia Satir

topic: Motivational, Family, Appreciation, Individual Differences, Spiritual Family

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

- Eva Burrows

topic: Family, Love Life, Love Is, Inspirational Family, Inspirational Family Love

When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I might become a window dresser.

- Justine Bateman

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Ties, Might, Justine, Dressers

The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Family, Character, Trying, Brothers And Sisters, Life Is Pain

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

- George Burns

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Funny, Always Happy, Large Family

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Family, Happy Family, Inspirational Family Love

I'm very proud of Family Ties. It's meant a lot to a lot of people.

- Tina Yothers

topic: Ties, People, Proud, Family Ties

The family ties between hundreds of thousands of German families and their American relatives led many to think that America would never join a second war against Germany.

- Julius Streicher

topic: War, Thinking, America, Family Ties

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

- Barbra Streisand

source: Barbra Streisand's Letter to Democrats, www.foxnews.com. April 2, 2001.

topic: Exercise, Hype, Ties, Employing, Voter Fraud

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

- Samuel Butler

source: Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”, London : J. Cape

topic: Christian, Believe, Health, Bad Temper, Deadly Sins

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

- Felix Adler

source: FELIX ADLER (1880). “CREED AND DEED A SERIES OF DISCOURSES”

topic: Family, School, Parenting, Family First, Love And Family

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

- Marsha Norman

source: Marsha Norman (1983). “'Night, Mother”, p.19, Dramatists Play Service Inc

topic: Family, Mean, Nerves, Love Life And Family, Lovely Family

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

- Dodie Smith

source: Dear Octopus (1938) p. 120

topic: Funny, Family, Heart, Happy Family, Inspirational Family

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

- Gail Buckley

source: "Books of the Times" by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, www.nytimes.com. 1986.

topic: Family, Past, Mirrors, Genealogy, Happy Family

Mafia is a process,not a thing.Mafia is a form of clan-cooperation to witch it's individual members pledge lifelong loyalty....Frienship,connections,family ties,trust,loyalty,obedience-this was the glue that held us together.

- Joseph Bonanno

topic: Loyalty, Ties, Together, Organized Crime, Loyalty Friendship

I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of Family Ties between Monday and Friday.

- Gary David

topic: Friday, Monday, Writing, Family Ties

When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.

- Anne-Marie Duff

topic: Stars, Drama, School, Family Ties

At the end of the day, what I cherish most are the human relationships. With the unfailing support of my wife and partner I have lived my life to the fullest. It is the friendships I made and the close family ties I nurtured that have provided me with that sense of satisfaction at a life well lived, and have made me what I am.

- Lee Kuan Yew

topic: Ties, Wife, Support, Close Family, Family Ties

If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Men, Emotional, Ties, Productive Work, Friendship And Family

In my view, immigrants today aren't any different from immigrants who have come to America throughout our nation's history. They bring new ideas, an entrepreneurial spirit and close family ties. They place a high value on education. And they are eager to achieve the American Dream. ... It's to our benefit to keep our doors open, and to keep enriching our economy and culture. I'd like to see America continue to do so.

- Dick Armey

topic: Dream, America, Ties, Entrepreneurial Spirit, Close Family

When family ties are disturbed, devoted children arise.

- Laozi

topic: Children, Ties, Taoism, Family Ties

I'm more or less skeptical about marriage, because of family ties, relations between children and parents - it's all so depressing.

- Michelangelo Antonioni

source: Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

topic: Depressing, Children, Ties, Family Ties

Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.

- Laozi

topic: Ties, People, Taoism, Family Ties

If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of a machine gun unit, that's a very tricky business. We've got to know his background... I'm saying these things because they are real, and if I don't think that, and I think even if today the Prime Minister doesn't think carefully about this, I and my family could have a tragedy.

- Lee Kuan Yew

topic: Religious, Real, Gun, Malaysia, Family Ties

The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.

- Bruno Bauer

topic: Religious, Sweet, Sight, Family Ties

The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour.

- Walter Ciszek

topic: Education, Children, Simple, Family Ties

But the main thing I don't want to be is un-funny. That's really the mandate. Just whatever we're doing, make it as funny as we can possibly make it. And believe me, if the show starts going down, we'll introduce a baby. We'll do everything that they did on `Family Ties.' I'm not afraid of that.

- Jon Stewart

topic: Baby, Believe, Ties, Family Ties

Whether your focus is on preserving and strengthening family ties in a world of increasingly unstable relationships, gaining access to a decent job, growing and evolving as a person, or guiding a company through the stormy seas of a fiercely competitive global marketplace-whether your goals are material, emotional, or spiritual-the price of success is the same: thinking, learning. To be asleep at the wheel-to rely only on the known, familiar, and automatized-is to invite disaster.

- Nathaniel Branden

source: Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

topic: Success, Spiritual, Jobs, Stormy Seas, Price Of Success

We have the bad habit, some of us, of looking back to a time - almost any time will do - when society was stable and orderly, family ties stronger and deeper, love more lasting and faithful, and so on. Let me be your Cassandra prophesying after the fact, and a long study of the documents in the case: it was never true, that is, no truer than it is now.

- Katherine Anne Porter

topic: Family, Past, Ties, Deeper Love, Family Ties

I do think it's important for black writers to show that we too can make it into the mainstream. Growing up, I didn't just watch The Cosby Show, I watched Growing Pains and Family Ties too. We can tell those stories too.

- Lena Waithe

topic: Growing Up, Pain, Thinking, Cosby Show, Family Ties

It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with the relaxation of older family ties.

- John Dewey

source: John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, David Sidorsky (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1927-1928”, p.230, SIU Press

topic: Country, School, Ties, Family Ties

Great cycles of history began with vigorous cultures awakening to the needs of children, but collapsing with frayed family ties. Have we failed to learn lessons which Ancient China, Greece and Rome learned too late - about day care and death houses for old folks? Do we without protest accept accelerating preschool and nursing home cultures which warn ominously that the earlier you institutionalize your child, the earlier he will institutionalize you!

- Raymond S. Moore

topic: Children, Home, School, Learning Lessons, Family Ties

At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.

- Gary David Goldberg

source: "March Madness and the Successful Sitcom" by Gary David Goldberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2008.

topic: Cutting, Blessing, Air, Family Ties

[Gambling] is a perfidious passion. ... It is bad for one to win, and bad not to win. ... it ends by setting your blood on fire, and to increase your chances of winning at any cost, your stakes increase frightfully; the desire of winning gets to be a madness. The soul gets sick; it neither sees nor hears anything. No family ties, position, nor fortune, can stand against this passion.

- Matilde Serao

topic: Passion, Winning, Gambling, Family Ties

When television families aren't gathered around the kitchen table exchanging wisecracks, they are experiencing brief but moving dilemmas, which are handily solved by the youngest child or by some cute extraterrestrial houseguest. Emerging from Family Ties or My Two Dads, we are forced to acknowledge that our own families are made up of slow-witted, emotionally crippled people who would be lucky to qualify for seats in the studio audience of JEOPARDY!

- Barbara Ehrenreich

topic: Cute, Children, Dad, Exchanging, Family Ties

In every Magical, or similar system, it is invariably the first condition which the Aspirant must fulfill: he must once and for all and for ever put his family outside his magical circle.Even the Gospels insist clearly and weightily on this.Christ himself (i.e. whoever is meant by this name in this passage) callously disowns his mother and his brethren (Luke VIII, 19). And he repeatedly makes discipleship contingent on the total renunciation of all family ties. He would not even allow a man to attend his father's funeral!Is the magical tradition less rigid?Not on your life!

- Aleister Crowley

topic: Mother, Father, Men, Family Ties