Family Quotes

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.
– Liz Phair
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
– Elizabeth Edwards
It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.
– Michael Pitt
It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
– Barbara Mandrell
It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.
– Dee Dee Myers
It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics , to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.
– John Major
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
– Christopher Lasch
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
– Christopher Lasch
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
– Gertrude Stein
It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.
– Daniel Day Lewis
It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.
– James Earl Jones
It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.
– Martin Scorsese
It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.
– Steven Spielberg
Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.
– Gary Oldman
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
– Cary Grant
In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.
– Mitt Romney
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.
– Tom Vilsack
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
– Alfred Adler
In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.
– Anna Quindlen
In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.
– Marlo Thomas
In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.
– Brett Favre
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.
– Billy Corgan
In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.
– Hillary Clinton
In my family, we let our boys have a say in what veggie side they want for dinner that night. We list off a handful of options and get them excited about helping to plan the dinner menu. They're much more inclined to finish their plates when they've helped decide what goes on them.
– Cat Cora
In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.
– David Mamet
In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.
– Caroline Kennedy
In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
– Desmond Tutu
In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
– Adele Brookman
In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.
– Billie Joe Armstrong
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
– Alex Haley
In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.
– Antonin Scalia
If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.
– Hulagu Khan
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
– Rachael Ray
If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA.
– Henry Louis Gates
If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
– will.i.am
If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.
– will.i.am
If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want. Think about what you can do so that you are happy with yourself - for instance, eating right to feel great and energetic.
– Heidi Klum
If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.
– Temple Grandin
If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.
– Bridget Moynahan
If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.
– Julia Louis Dreyfus
If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.
– Jack Welch
If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.
– Al Goldstein
If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.
– Jasmine Guy
If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.
– Harlan Coben
If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.
– Gus Van Sant
If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.
– Tupac Shakur
If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell.
– Sheldon Adelson
If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.
– David McCallum
If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.
– Shirley MacLaine
I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.
– Tony Campolo
I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.
– Ani Difranco
I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.
– Dolly Parton
I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.
– Paris Hilton
I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family.
– Jeff Foxworthy
I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.
– Hope Solo
I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.
– Mike Krzyzewski
I've been experimenting more and more with LN2, liquid nitrogen. I've used it in battle on 'Iron Chef America,' but have also made some great ice creams at home for my family. Since it freezes basically on contact, you can have ice cream ready in mere minutes.
– Cat Cora
I've always wanted to do a family movie.
– Adam Sandler
I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my family and run around play dress-up all the time. I think I was 4 when I told them I wanted to do movies.
– Emma Roberts
I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.
– Jamie Lee Curtis
I've always known I wanted a family.
– Charlize Theron
I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!
– Leslie Nielsen
I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.
– Rick Perry
I'm very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family's long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship.
– Shaquille O'Neal
I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.
– Nicki Minaj
I'm the git in the family.
– Clive Owen
I'm thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support.
– Serena Williams
I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.
– Brett Favre
I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.
– Emma Roberts
I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years.
– Elizabeth Warren
I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.
– Francesca Annis
I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not.
– Tyler Perry
I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday.
– Kristen Stewart
I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.
– Sting
I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do that it's inborn. I'm not asking that. All I'm saying is don't let these children suffer without a family because of your bias.
– Rosie O'Donnell
I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.
– Steven Patrick Morrissey
I'm not a royal family watcher.
– Bill Nighy
I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.
– Shakira
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.
– Jonathan Safran Foer
I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.
– Chris Martin
I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.
– Ted Nugent
I'm happiest with my family around me.
– Amy Winehouse
I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.
– Christina Ricci
I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.
– Tom Hardy
I'm from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants.
– Billy Corgan
I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.
– Rupert Murdoch
I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.
– Christian Bale
I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.
– David Beckham
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
– Rupert Murdoch
I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
– T. Boone Pickens
I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.
– Brigitte Bardot
I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.
– LaToya Jackson
I'd like to have a family.
– Maria Sharapova
I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.
– Edward Furlong
I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.
– Li Na
I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.
– Ziggy Marley
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
– Frank Sinatra
I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want to be able to share what I do and how I raise my family. I feel like I have a story to tell. I enjoy talking and listening, sharing ideas and sharing advice.
– Cat Cora
I work six months and get three or four with the family. I've stopped racing to get to the red light.
– Kyle Chandler