Quotes & Sayings About Prioritizing Family Over Work

I liked to refer to myself as bougavian. Slightly bougie, but I was not one to easily forget my bird roots. — Nicole Falls

In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly. — Janis Joplin

There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing to every one of these families, it would quickly become a meaningless act. — Edward Ball

They say time flies when you're having fun, but boy does it move at a snail's pace when you're worried or depressed or anxious. — Kim Askew

I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business. — Nic Pizzolatto

Recovering alcoholics have an expression: "If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today." With all that's happened, it's been liberating to understand that I don't have to carry the weight of all my disappointments or expectations. Sometimes it just is what it is. I can accept that. — Michael J. Fox

The call-and-response rituals of geeks were a thing of beauty, and allowed said geeks to identify each other across time and space. — Atom Yang

The law perfected nothing, but a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God. Hebrews 7:19 — Beth Moore

The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream. — Laozi

Everything we play when we are growing up, is team related. In this game (of golf) you can find all the answers yourself. You don't need to throw the ball in the air and play catch with yourself. You get a bucket of balls and go out there with your clubs, and you hit and learn and you get better. And there's no top. — George Lopez

No, when you love someone you spend hours and hours with them, and even the mightiest forces in the netherworld could not say whether the hours you spend increase your love or if you simply spend more hours with someone as your love increases. — Daniel Handler

Men were like blades, they would all break sooner or later, you included. But you looked around at the men you led, and in their eyes you saw what kind of steel you had to hand, how it had been forged and tempered, what blows, if any, it would take. — Richard K. Morgan