About Family Quotes

We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure.

I have a dad-ager. My dad is really good at the business end of things. But it's really a family affair. My mother handles all my social media stuff - Facebook, Twitter, e-mails, that kind of thing.

You forge different bonds with friends than with family, tell different secrets.

My parents were born and raised in Iowa and my two brothers were born in Iowa before my family moved to California where I was born so I still really feel like I have those Midwestern roots.

My family vacations were softball tournaments.

Friends are the family we choose.

I want to have a family and I'd like to live in a lovely big house, with a massive driveway and gates and loads of kids.

I'm very close to my family. Not like these big stars - not mentioning any names - who lose the plot and don't know who they are.

Family makes a house a home.

My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything.

I'm the youngest in a family where I didn't have to take responsibility for much.

I love films that test cynicism and inspire you to do better in your dealings with your family and with strangers.

Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.

My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.

I come from a theater family and a theater background, and I come from a philosophy that you respect the space you occupy when you work and you put everything that you have into something.

I think my faith is important. Being young as well, sometimes it's difficult, but I've got a good family behind me as well.

When you are young nothing is more important than football but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.

A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both. But with God we're both born of Him and adopted by Him.

I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house now. Everything is pink!

Part of what I'm doing with generations is that I try to express in my work pieces of my growing up years that I can look back on with great fondness - specifically, a sense of family.

When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.

I was working in a family business-the fur business - and I hated it. I was reading the New York Times want ads, and I saw a photographer's assistant job in Vogue. Things went from there.

The truth is, the family is much more creatively nourishing because you're playing on a full keyboard. Whereas when you're single, you're just playing the upbeat jazzy tunes.

Work is the least important thing and family is the most important.

In one generation, my family went from extermination simply because of how they pray to God to this ridiculously privileged life I live today. So how can I not love America?

In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.

The inconvenience and the suffering of any children or any family members pales in comparison to the suffering and oppression that goes on in these animal laboratories.

I don't know a family that isn't touched by some sort of addiction.

I find people who want to help other people to be the most interesting. I come from a family of teachers, and my friends are teachers, often times in very difficult school situations.

My mother was not the cook in the family. My dad was. I'd watch him behind the grill, and I said, 'If I ever make it and have enough money, I'm going to make sure I dine in the best restaurants.'

Tammy Faye, I pray for every day. I really liked her. I wanted to be in their family.

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.

I wanted to give up, but my family kept me going.

My daughter, I'm proud to say, is senior vice president of ABC Family network. She could hire and fire me. She has hired me, but she has not fired me.

She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.

If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.

Even as a child, I told my whole family how to improve their looks.

My mom wore the pants in the family, for sure. I always say, that I spent my childhood trying to get the love and attention of my mom, and now I can't get rid of it.

My family gets incredibly tense and stressed out around traveling. There's something really beautiful in that vulnerability.

I came from a very comfortable, middle-class family living in Highland Park, Illinois.Really growing up in a Jewish community with a fabulous public school.

Repeat: Sharing the kids bathroom while my master bath gets renovated is family bonding. So fun.

We [in my family] don't like to mess around and talk about our problems or complain, it's just not anything that we do.

What I like to do and what I have to do are two separate things. I like to read, swim, watch TV, spend time with my family. But I have to work, so I do that.

I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.

I miss the cast and crew of Supernatural immensely. I know it's a cliche to say your cast and crew are like your family, but it's really the case there.

I have a day job, which means my family isnt dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.

The idea of having a large family, I definitely had a romantic notion of it.

I didn't think that it's something that would happen. I didn't think I would be in the position, emotionally or financially, to be able to do that. But I've been lucky [to have big family].

I was raised in a family where my father was the first one to go to college.

I grew up in a Catholic family in the Midwest. And I knew people of different faiths and people that were atheists and people that were agnostic.