In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.
— Antonin Scalia
Helpful Family Comes First quotations
My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people.
It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it?
I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?

And so I look at it as a relationship that I have with him that I want to give him the honor and glory anytime I have the opportunity. And then right after I give him the honor and glory, I always try to give my teammates the honor and glory. And that's how it works because Christ comes first in my life, and then my family, and then my teammates.
I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.
For me, family always comes first I would do anything to protect them.

Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.
My priority is always the family and Victoria [Beckham] and I always ensure we are there for our children. We work hard but family comes first.
It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.
When I first came into the NFL, I was just trying to be super, super ready to learn the plays and all that. Now, I've found more balance. I think that with new life coming in, and family and everything else, balance has been critical. That goes for the social media part, too - allowing the fans to come into our world a little is cool.
It's very important to prioritize. I know, for me, my family comes first. That makes every decision very easy.

Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe.
I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance.
I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and the bitterness that comes when there is no hope and a lot of despair. So I wanted to build the company, in a sense, that my father never got a chance to work for.
First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad.
We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

My family comes first before anything, they are everything to me.
Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.
Altruism demands that an individual serve others, but doesn’t stipulate whether those others should be one’s family, or the homeless, or society as a whole. Collectivism states that, in politics, society comes first and the individual must obey. Collectivism is the application of the altruist ethics to politics.

My mother taught me that family comes first. It is engraved on my heart.
As a first generation Jewish American, I have witnessed firsthand Jewish immigrants who have come to this Nation in order to create a better life for themselves, their families, and future generations.
My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

So I delegate a lot and I make my family come first, my husband and our kids.
It's with a heavy heart that I have decided that I can't relocate.
I have two babies under 4. Being a mother and wife comes first, and I just cannot uproot my children and separate the family by moving away. I will miss this job desperately and wish everyone the absolute best.
I constantly work at maintaining balance.
For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.

My family comes first, and you have to be in charge to be able to protect that.
You have to be the one who says no or you don't have a life, which is what I found out the first time.
I always kind of divided the gay guys I met up into two groups when I first started coming out. There were the guys who thought there was something fundamentally wrong with them and hated themselves and were so burdened with shame and internalized homophobia. It just really paralyzed and shredded them. And then there were guys like me who thought, "I'm fine, everybody else is crazy. My church is sick and the family's crazy, but me? I'm fine."
My professional success is really important to me, and my career is really important to me. It's the most important thing to me outside of my family. I take it very seriously and work really, really hard at it. Family comes first, but this is something that's really important to me too.

It's coming to America first, The cradle of the best and of the worst.
It's here they got the range And the machinery for change And it's here they got the spiritual thirst. It's here the family's broken And it's here the lonely say That the heart has got to open In a fundamental way: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. O mighty Ship of State! To the Shores of Need Past the Reefs of Greed Through the Squalls of Hate Sail on, sail on.
My family absolutely comes first, and I don't mean that in a Pollyanna way.
It's the focus of my life because it's what makes me happy.
I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. 'Disco Pigs' was my first professional acting experience.
I live for my work, apart from my family who come first.
And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.