My Family Quotes

There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.

With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.

I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own family's involvement with the armed forces.

I would like to go back and spend a Christmas with my family and myself when I was five years old and just see what that dynamic would be like. Observe it. I think it would be a magical gift.

As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

How I love them. How good they are. They endure endless hours of me talking about the future. They keep me near and at the same time bid me farewell. That is what real love is.

Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that's it.

Sometimes I want to be human for you.

For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?

The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life.

I would love four children because I have a very small family, so I want those big Thanksgiving dinners.

Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.

I like a quiet evening with family or friends over, great food and great discussion and a lot of laughter. That's really what I think fills my tank.

When I was a kid at four years old, that's when I started amateur wrestling with my dad and family. And when that's instilled in you, it never goes away.

I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

Percy blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means all the flying horses in the world are my…You know what? Lets’ forget it.

Family isn't blood. It's the people who love you. The people who have your back.

The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked

Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!

All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I'm having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have.

Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

I love watching old movies, reading and having some good meals. I have a very close group of friends and family. I try to spend time with the ones that I love and work as hard as possible.

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.

But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

...we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the loves our lives we see every day—life is pretty boring.

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!

I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing.

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.

Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.

If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.

Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.

People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.

We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.

Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .

A family is a mystery.

At the end of the day, that's what a family is - a group of different people who accept each other.