My Family Quotes

Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.

I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.

I think I get from my books what other people get from family or a relationship or from prayer.

Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.

Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.

I'm not planning to endorse anybody. I have a long friendship with the family and a long friendship with Jeb [Bush], but I'm, like a lot of people, sitting on the sidelines watching and waiting.

I love that in this movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], you almost want to go and hang out with this family.

I know that [Sunday is the day you spend with your family] is a tradition that I want to keep alive and I also want to share.

I love family. In this movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], my character is a successful OB-GYN and yet she goes back to her teenage years when she's with her parents. Like, that's me.

I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.

I would find it very strange to be on the road without my family. It's really second nature to me.

I think actors always like to think they don't bring the character home, and then their family all laugh and tell you otherwise.

My folks are hilarious extroverts and have always been very supportive of all my artistic endeavors. I'm really lucky to come from such an encouraging family.

My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.

I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.

I do a lot of writing about my family.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?

I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined.

We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.

If a woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family, huge issue for our economy and our country's well being.

My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy.

Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But no one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it.

Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that.

Relationships are hard regardless! But I think they feed the artist: relationships, children, life, family - it all feeds the artist. Loss. Joy. Sacrifice.

I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.

I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast.

At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming.

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

I grew up listening to gospel. That was the only thing that I had reference to because that was what my family was involved with.

I've always loved working on series. The crew feels like a family and it's nice to have a regular gig that you can count on.

People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.

Half of my mum's family is Welsh. I remember when I was a kid she used to read to me, and witches and wizards in books always had a Welsh accent, so I guess I took it from that really.

I come from a big family, so I'd like to have a big family.

Worship should not be primarily about the worship leader up front, but about the worship leader serving as a conduit to allow the family of God to sing together to their Creator.

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.

This [Twilight] cast rocks! We get along so well together it's like a real family which is great to see.

I love mythology, grew up loving it. I'm a middle kid, big family, that's the thing you did in the farm country. I lived in Iowa, I loved mythology. I don't know, we're like that.

I'm an actress. I'm not putting my life on the line for any great cause. I don't step out too boldly about anything except my children and family.

When you're pregnant, things-at least for me-get very sincere and very wholesome, and it's about family, and singing becomes about warmth.

I don't love traveling, because I'm never home. It's hard when you have a family.

And more so now, since having a family - I don't seek out any other acceptance.

To fill the shoes of rock 'n' roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing.

I took a long time off to have my baby and spend time with my family.

I hate to say that my mother was 'just a housewife', because in addition to that she has had lots of part-time secretarial jobs in factories and hospitals, always working really hard for our family.

My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.

Holiday traditions in my family are really it's all about the kids.