My Family Quotes

I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.

Work and family are at the center of our lives, the foundation of our dignity as a free people.

The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.

We will never disarm any American who seeks to protect his or her family from fear and harm.

You get a little stir crazy during the week.

Happy Father's Day -- or as they call it in my family, happy brother-in-law's day.

I feel this is a family here, so kinda regardless of whatever happens in your life, you always can come home to the Grand Ole Opry, thank God.

All my family back to the 1700s were water Gypsies. My brothers and me, we were the first ones to be born on dry land. All the rest of them were born on barges in the canals.

In my family, they were all big boozers, but they all lived to ripe old ages.

I used to worry, 'I've lost my family.' They hated me for a while, but they're very resilient.

In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.

In my family, I'm short.

There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it's like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there's a certain energy that attracts that.

Nobody wanted the "Roseanne" show. I heard from agents that there was no interest in a show about a fat woman and her family.

My family were hitters. If you made them laugh, they didn't hit you. My dad wouldn't hit me if I got him with humor right between the eyes.

I was the designated grown up in a family that operated in different reality than the rest of the world.

What I'm hoping to do and what I think I will do is make an entertaining enjoyable show where the whole family can sit down and watch.

I chose to devote the lion's share of my time to my personal growth and to my family. I reconnected with the part of me that I had left behind.

My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the heather in front of me.

I've tried to have a really normal life, and I have because my family treats me normal, and my friends treat me just the same.

We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people.

I mean, I think it would humanize Hillary [Clinton] incredibly to detail how she was involved in the family charitable organization.

I'm part German and part Irish. In fact, there's even a town in Germany that was named after my family, Limbach or so forth. And I don't know. I might even have some Indian blood in there.

Vote to protect your family. Vote for honesty, integrity, and accountability.

We're not hearing any Hollywood people talk about the Crime Family Foundation. We're not talking about any specific details about Hillary Clinton's work on the foundation.

My family is all lawyers. Most people when they come on shows like this, "I'm proud of the first member of my family to get a college education."

A family is everybody all together.

In a lot of work places, you work at a lot of jobs and people work more with their colleagues than with their family.

All Church activities, advancements, quorums, and classes are means to the end of an exalted family.

Integrity safeguards love, and love makes family life rich and zestful-now and forever.

Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.

I'm the youngest of 12 children. And although I was the youngest, I tried to organize things in my family. When there were disputes, I tried to mediate.

You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can prowl in old trunks of letters by the day with undiminished zest.

Looking at me from the outside, it is not very obvious, I know half my family is black and I feel close to their culture and their color.

The whole Kardashian family, they have a bunch of energy.

Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them.

The cool thing for me about moving to New York was that I got to create a new family.

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

All my moves were designed to promote the happiness and wellbeing of my family, rather than fame.

Sometimes family was the cruelest form of love there was, for no one could hurt you more than the people who created you.

In our corporate culture, because someone may have to take some flexibility because of family issues, somehow we continue to believe they aren't fully dedicated.

I came from a real working-class show business family.

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.

One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.

You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other things.

My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.