My Family Quotes

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.

I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.

Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try.

There will be no more British guys. Unless they are members of the royal family, of course.

I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.

I thought of my mother (...). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.

The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.

The fights are always the same

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

...Families are Forever, and wondered if the slogan was meant as a promise or a threat.

My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

Sometimes I want to be human for you.

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

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.

Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.

I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.

You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.

You always draw inspiration from your family or your parents if they've proven to be inspirational. My mother is someone who's always been inspirational to me.

As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.

If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, I don't know it.

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please.

You have to make your own family, your own life.

What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.

I also try to surround myself with people I love - make a family out of the company. So I tend to use the same people over and over. There's a sort of Mel Brooks Repertory Company.

You think that when you love somebody you have to totally follow him or her. No, that's not love. When you love somebody, you have to be totally truthful with that person.

For me it's not a question of whether we should intrude in family life, but how and when.

In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.

I spend a lot of time with my family. I go to bed early, don't watch too much television, don't read everything that's written about me whether positive or negative.

The dog that I was given on The Hills for Christmas is with my best friend's family.

It seems to be almost inevitable that the man who accepts a subordinate economic position in the Family degenerates into a loafer and a tyrant.

My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.

I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I'm whispering it, because I'm a quarter Jewish and afraid it's all going to be taken away.