My Family Quotes

[When I'll be old I see myself] as a world champion, on a big farm with an Italian-style, big family with a whole bunch of grandchildren. And the foundations for that I have already laid!

I'm not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that's what makes my comedy different.

My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer.

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn't normally talk to your parents about.

If you start giving your kids anxiety about food, it's going to last a lifetime. Moms have to lead by example. Don't say, "Oh, my jeans don't fit," or "Oh, I was bad." No diets. Nothing like that.

I can't work without my family being with me.

There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.

It's just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities.

Although my Dad was a talented calligrapher and both of my younger brothers were successful, I was the first one in my family to graduate from high school.

But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.

Marriage is to family what legs are to a table.

Marriage is the agreement to let a family happen.

Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.

As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It's become a family ritual.

I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me.

Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He's just like one of the family.

It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.

What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

The family is the essential presence, the thing that never leaves you, even if you find you have to leave it.

In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.

Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.

The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.

My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

My wife and family, to say the least, are the center of my life; they are my grounding. I don't want to sound schmaltzy, but they are my inspiration and you name it.

John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.

Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.

I am busy right now with my family, let alone all my other projects. It's an opportunity if it presents itself.

I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.

When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint.

Millions of American families are dealing with teenage pregnancy... It is true that some Americans will judge Governor Palin and her family. There's nothing anyone can do about it.

People need to know that by donating, coaching, and just lending support, anyone can become part of the wonderful global family.

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

My mom is such a big supporter of mine. She still is, and always was. So I got the sort of encouragement from that side of the family.

I've always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I'm where I belong.

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?

I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans.

Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.

I have a big family and no one ever treated me like a child. They always treated me like an adult, like an equal.

A clamor for 'family values' requires deliberate blindness to the abuses that occur within families.

My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.

Instead of getting wound up, simply relax your expectations of your family, friends, business associates...and yourself.

Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.

Mama, put my guns in the ground, I can't shoot them anymore. That long black cloud is coming down.

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.