99 Quotes About Family

1. Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be. Elizabeth Fishel
2. I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith. Vera Farmiga
3. Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public. Rod Stewart
4. At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too. Reba McEntire
5. As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. Josh Billings
6. I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for. Maureen O'Hara
7. I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise. LaToya Jackson
8. My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet. Gwen Stefani
9. 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
10. I had no fun. My family was too serious. Miuccia Prada
11. You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. Anita Baker
12. 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
13. Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change. Eric McCormack
14. You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing. Mikhail Baryshnikov
15. Tennis just a game, family is forever. Serena Williams
16. Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important. J. C. Watts
17. Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. George Eliot
18. I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended. David Sedaris
19. Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend. Susannah York
20. As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. Pope John Paul II
21. One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.' David Mamet
22. I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. Don Marquis
23. A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know. Dwight L. Moody
24. A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family. Eric Cantona
25. There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees. Henry Louis Gates
26. You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine. Cory Booker
27. Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far. Gwen Stefani
28. There is an overwhelming amount of information available to us all on the web each day, not to mention what is shared with us by our family, friends, fans, and followers. This necessitates the need to filter through all that information and to decide for ourselves where to put our attention. Simon Mainwaring
29. Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. Henri Frederic Amiel
30. I had this child, and it destroyed my family. Arnold Schwarzenegger
31. My whole family is very sarcastic and constantly making jokes. Emily Deschanel
32. And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure. Bob Geldof
33. I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me. Isabel Allende
34. 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
35. Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression. T. E. Lawrence
36. Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family. Chris Brown
37. Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family. Gertrude Stein
38. We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved. Julia Barr
39. My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that. Emeril Lagasse
40. We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that. Prince William
41. My family brought me up to be very respectful of people. Emma Bunton
42. My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion. Wentworth Miller
43. For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It's where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that's very important to me. Beyonce Knowles
44. With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size, and it wasn't two burgers, it was one. Ginnifer Goodwin
45. Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected. Christina Milian
46. Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. Margaret Mead
47. Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them. Jeffrey Kluger
48. Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house. Elizabeth Warren
49. 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
50. I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quite believe it as it's a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever. Katherine Jenkins
51. In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard. Caroline Kennedy
52. You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it. Robert Benchley
53. If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself. Bernard Meltzer
54. A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats. Jeffrey Kluger
55. Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty. Adam Sandler
56. Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever. Charlie Sheen
57. My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up. Emeril Lagasse
58. You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family. Rod Stewart
59. My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of &pound10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do. Hugh Jackman
60. I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do. Patrick Warburton
61. Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it. Mario Andretti
62. We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough. Harold Ramis
63. What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy? Princess Diana
64. You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don't see that in Italy or Spain. It's not because they can't afford to buy them, it's because that's not what eating together as a family is about. Emeril Lagasse
65. Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that. James Brown
66. Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family. Kin Hubbard
67. The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house. Annie Leibovitz
68. Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life. Denzel Washington
69. I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book. Neil Gaiman
70. For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. Sidney Altman
71. I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father. David Beckham
72. You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. Sandra Bullock
73. The most important thing in the world is family and love. John Wooden
74. At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family. Gwen Stefani
75. It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family. Lady Gaga
76. I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word. Drew Barrymore
77. Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. George Bernard Shaw
78. Actors are one family over the entire world. Eleanor Roosevelt
79. On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on. Madonna Ciccone
80. The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. Gilbert K. Chesterton
81. Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster. Agnes Smedley
82. When I'm home, the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up, my parents both worked, so dinnertime was for family - the TV was off. I think it's important to grab that time and really make it special, even after a tough day. Cat Cora
83. The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time. Christopher Lasch
84. 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
85. I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling. Maria Sharapova
86. The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. Bertrand Russell
87. I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it. Rodney Dangerfield
88. Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there. Robert Cormier
89. The family is the first essential cell of human society. Pope John XXIII
90. Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. Vince Lombardi
91. Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters. Gus Van Sant
92. Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God. Christopher Love
93. The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world. Richard G. Scott
94. I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other. Adam Carolla
95. I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss. Orlando Bloom
96. The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves. Marco Rubio
97. When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family. Dave Grohl
98. The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them. Bill Cosby
99. I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency. George Clooney