My Family Quotes

Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

If one is married for a long time, and one does have a family . . . It is like an energy, a wonderful fire that never goes out underneath you, to help you go out into the world and do your damnedest.

I am thinking more and more about what I want to and can do after my days as an active athlete. Thoughts like family and marriage also cross my mind more and more often.

I have a great family that loves me, a record deal at 14, and I get to do what I love every day.

The Tudors, I don't even know if I had a family back then.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

Family and the natural surroundings played a big role in shaping my values.

Freedom, like charity, begins at home.

I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.

There is a huge amount of shame connected to the feeling of not being loved, because love and family, biological or not, confirms our existence. Everyone needs to be seen, accepted and loved.

I thought, 'If I'm going to die, I'm going to videotape it.' So I got out my little video recorder and was taping goodbyes to my family.

I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

Ive really written my books for my husband and our family. Theyve brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.

When I look at my family, that's all life means, right there.

As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger.

What is behind homosexual marriage. It's really more about the destruction of the traditional family than about exalting homosexuality, because you need to destroy also loyalty to the family.

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.

I don't know, if I had the secret recipe that I actually could give everybody, I think it has to do very much with believing in yourself and giving time. Giving time to each member of the family.

Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?

To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.

There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.

I had a very close family and I couldn't get away with anything.

Actually, if you take the average American, and studies have shown that, he is really concerned only with private affairs; that is to say, with his health, his money and family affairs.

we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.

As a homeschooling parent, I have often wondered who learns more in our family, the parent or the child. The topic I seem to be learning the most about is the nature of learning itself.

I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes.

It's something that's really fun to do. It's a family business.

From the first day I joined that family, nothing could be done naturally any more.

Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)

I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.

I think the first sign of friendship is a manifestation of how you separate from your parents and try to find a new family on your own. It's the first sign of growing.

I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. 'Disco Pigs' was my first professional acting experience.

Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that's the only thing in common throughout the world.

My wife comes from a foodie family so I've been indoctrinated into that. I had sweetbreads the other night, and I have to say, not my favorite thing in the world You're eating a gland.

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

My mum still wonders when I'll get a real job. These are the questions we discuss at our family dinners.

This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home'.

When liberals say 'family', they mean 'Big Brother in Washington.' When we say 'family,' we mean 'honor thy father and mother.'

If you're a single mother with two children, which is the toughest job in America as far as I'm concerned, and you're working hard to put food on your family.

Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.

My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but we were well-off.

Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more than chairman, at most, of the entertainment committee.

The stress of making small talk with in-laws is called being part of a family.

I will never blame a fighter if he doesn't fight me because he takes care of his own interest first, and prioritize the interests of his family first, that's completely normal.

Everyone in my family is a hero to me.

I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life.