My Family Quotes

I'm very consistent about spending time with family. And when you have dinner with your daughters - they'll keep you in your place and they'll teach you something about perspective.

It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.

I have a very strong family.

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

Freedom, like charity, begins at home.

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

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.

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.

I like to hike and play with my dogs and spend time with my family. We go out to family dinners a lot.

It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.

The one [thing about Amish life] that I'm always going to miss is the closeness that I've had with my family. I still talk to them, but I'm an outsider.

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

'Family Guy' is relentlessly excellent.

People think I'm so confident. Close family members can see through that.

It's hard for a black man to raise a family.

Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.

My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.

I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.

Family is what really runs through my head. I'm usually bombarded with tons of phone calls, but I'm usually bombarded with love as well.

For me, family is life. The decision to start one wasn't complex at all. My career has been wonderful, but it's not my life. I don't feel pressure to get back to work.

Love is the best part of life

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

I have a family, a label, and I have responsibilities. It requires discipline and constant development of your skill.

Here's the weird thing about the Murdoch family; They believe what they read in the papers.

Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.

I find that a lot of times when family members get bronchitis or the flu or something like that, I'll kind of skate through and be really lucky and not get that sick.

Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.

You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.

There is no problem in the family, ward, or stake that cannot be solved if we look for solutions in the Lord's way by counseling - really counseling - with one another.

Fourth, come home from work and take an active role with your family. Don't put work, friends, or sports ahead of listening to, playing with, and teaching your children.

The love that exists between people who share religious values and experiences can be the most satisfying and unifying force this side of the solid, happy family.