My Family Quotes

You should think of your customers as partners, or better still, family.

If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go-you'll find family.

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.

I guess it was easier for her to change her name than for her whole family to change theirs.

I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

I want every movie to be like a big family and a great adventure.

Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?

If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family.

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family member comes on the scene.

According to the Institute for International Economics, trade barriers cost American consumers $80 billion a year or more than $1,200 per family.

It looked like just the sort of family Americans dream of having: dumb and loving.

I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.

I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too.

I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

I have a wonderful family. I have a job that I love and wonderful people who help me with it. It can't get any better than that.

A family that knows how to play together has the tools to stay together.

And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.

Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad, get me out of this.

I wouldn't change a thing about my family.

Even though I don't have any kids of my own, I love this idea of family and taking care of things.

Compassion becomes an automatic reaction when you see all of humanity as one undivided and indivisible family.

As long as I continue to hear 'normal' people telling me I am too childish, I know I'm doing just fine.

Your friends, family, and kids have to understand that's your priority. It's the only way you can be successful.

I'm thankful for the big stuff of course-my family, health, human kindness. But I'm also thankful that I don't have to work for Hollywood anymore.

I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents No. 1 priority is the kids education.

A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.

I imagine there's an undercurrent of the impact of early religious teachings and my break from what I was taught and expected to perform if I wanted to be considered normal in my family of origin.

The women in my family - my grandmother and my mother - have been both sources of comfort and terror. Protection was not always available.

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.

From a family tree that has healthy roots, there emerge hearty leaves and most beautiful fruits.

Family is a collective expression of individual perspective-a living work of art.

A family portrait is only complete with love to fill it's frame.

A family ship will never sink until it is abandoned by its crew.

I will never make my family perfect, but I will make it better everyday.

Loving families value effort as much as success.

More is required than a common last name to truly be called a family.

There is no room for exclusion in family...only love.

There is no greater blessing than a family hand that lifts you from a fall; but there is not lower curse than a family hand that strikes you when you're down.

I've had no money, absolutely, from my family. They paid for a good education - or schools that purported to be a good education - but, um, not a dime.

I have a mother that's very strong and family that surround me and constantly tell me they love me.

The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family.

Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible; they often flourish and grow strong together.

Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.

Overcome the Empyrean; hurl Heaven and Earth out of their places, That in the same calamity Brother and brother, friend and friend, Family and family, City and city may contend.

I am a living member of the great family of all souls.

I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.

I'm getting bigger roles, and I'm on location more, and I have a wife and family. I'd rather work less, and I've started to implement that. It was either that or my wife would break my heart.

Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

I was also very concerned about protecting my family.