My Family Quotes

And when I look back I recognize now that I indeed do come from a large family of artists. Whether they necessarily realize it or not.

The biggest family in the world is my fans.

When you are not making the present moment into a means to an end, you also are not making every human being you meet - in your business and even at home, in your family - into a means to an end.

My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn't like trained singing or anything like that, but it was singing.

I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.

It's kind of hard to win most elections on anti-family, immorality, and Satan-worship.

That has always been my biggest ambition. To bring people together. To achieve a family spirit. Because then, you can actually do anything, because people are open to what they feel is real.

I think that is a great, great thing, to create your own identity and foster a true family spirit.

My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.

Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want.

It’s the downside of a family business: anything good is because I’m somebody’s son; otherwise, I’m a schmuck.

If Grandma Goldman ever smiled, she must have done it in the bathroom with the door locked. She had been the undisputed head of her own family, ruling with an iron hand and a mouth full of rocks.

I love my country. I love my family. And I have dedicated my life to both of them.

Sometimes family members will ask to be kept out of certain things that I'm writing, and I try to respect that. I'd much rather have relatives than a book.

Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.

If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work.

Family is always the most important part.

At work you worry over the family at home. At home you fret over work left undone. Behold the working woman's stress.

I really miss my family and my kids when I'm away from home.

Carolyn Maloney has been a consistent fighter for Afghan women but also for International Family Planning Bills.

I haven't done any training. I come from a family of actors, but I haven't done any training.

We all have family dysfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole.

My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.

When you have an animal in your home, a relationship forms very quickly, where that animal ceases to be an animal to you. It feels like a member of your family.

I credit my mom Debbie for creating a solid family base, ... She gave me a strong sense of reality so I could avoid falling into the normal pitfalls of child actors.

I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children.

It took a lot to get attention in my family. No wonder I'm an actress.

I grew up thirty miles down the highway in San Marcos, and I've still got family there, so I guess I'm pretty well rooted.

I grew up in a Navy family.

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

What surprised me was that within a family, the voices of sisters as they're talking are virtually always the same.

Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in the sentence with creation of a family and the purchase of a home.

I decided long ago that my family absolutely comes first, and I don't regret that. I do, however, sometimes wish I had an extra five hours or so in the day!

The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.

I'm very committed to my family and my town. My biggest local commitment are my children, my husband, my home and my grandchildren.

I'm very much a family person, and that's always my first priority.

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.

I don't know about you, but my girlfriends have been my girlfriends forever, and they're my sisters and my family.

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.

I saw at a young age that one bad break can turn a family's financial life upside down. And it has affected everything in my life since then.

I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.

It was like a big family, since so many of us brought our kids. We all went surfing. It was so relaxed and easy.

Except when it comes to Mom. She is, and always has been, the driving force in this family. And sometimes that means driving us head-on, no possible change of course, into a wall.

My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater.

I was the first person to go to university from my family.

My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

I am in deep shock. I have lost a beloved friend [George Michael] - the kindest, most generous soul and a brilliant artist. My heart goes out to his family and all of his fans.

I'm very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better.

My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.