My Family Quotes

In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.

If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

My passion. My commitment. This is the most important thing in my life other than my family.

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

Faces are the most interesting things we see

As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.

I'm not the kind of actor who runs around and insists on being called Stravinsky by everybody, and my family has to call me Igor. I'm not that kind of actor. I think that's pretentious.

The most successful people I know create superior results yet still maintain a balance among work, family, and recreation in their lives.

I don't believe in happy families.

I stole a significant amount of money from a family member. I knew I was going to get caught, but I was so desperate I didn't care. It was a cry for help.

The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit.

After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not just praying for themselves; they're praying for their family and the people they've let down.

All my band members were old enough to be my dad. It was like this family vibe.

The family is in flux, and signs of trouble are widespread. Expectations remain high. But realities are disturbing.

Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.

When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.

My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

The family is the corner stone of our society.

It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that.'

For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.

Earth is a family business.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have

Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.

I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

I've always been interested in the rest of the world. My family is very eccentric; my parents have always been very supportive of travel and doing whatever I thought I needed to do.

I grew up in a sailing family. My dad lived for sailing, and when we moved to Canada when I was a child, he really wanted us to learn.

I know that I am very fortunate. I have the support of my family and friends, I do a job I enjoy and I have Catherine.

I come from a pretty strange family.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.

I grew up in a very politically aware family. My mother always taught me to question everything, never believing anything simply at face value - especially the nicest, most adamant politicians.

I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.

If you are born into a family with little money but a lot of love, you will find yourself more content than one who is born with a silver spoon and an empty home.

I think nowadays people are so used taking the camera to the family picnic - so people are less surprised by films made of them, like home movies.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.

I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

I grew up in a family that believed love was at work in the world. I guess that's a religious idea, though of course it needn't be.

The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone's cool.

Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.

WE HAD AN AMAZING STAY AT SURF AND SUNSET VILLA. THE WHOLE FAMILY REALLY ENJOYED THE HOLIDAY AND THE SURF WAS GREAT!

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

The family has a social function and so it should be sustained.

We're in a tough situation because of teenage children, and then we have a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old, so my family and my responsibilities is sort of a juggle.

The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.

I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?

Tobacco farmers would say, "Look, I'm just trying to make a living and feed my family." Nevertheless, tobacco is incredibly harmful and kills people.