My Family Quotes

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.

Let's be honest: it's not like I'm not making a good living that the whole family benefits from. No one talks about my foul mouth when we're all in Aspen for Christmas.

I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.

You go to India and you see the poorest village somewhere in the middle of India. And the poor family is happier than any rich billionaire in this country because of spirituality.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

I think in times of bizarre strangeness, what you can and should do is spend time with your family eating lunch or dinner. And if you can do that, you will restore us to the peace.

The flight I'm most excited about is the one that takes me back to Northern Ireland to visit family and friends.

Even as a dope fiend mama. You always was a black queen mama.

Papa wasn't man enough, couldn't stand up to his responsibilities. Instead of taking care of me, he'd rather live lavishly.

I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.

If the family goes, so goes our civilization.

Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.

Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement.

...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.

One time my whole family played hide and seek. They found my mother in Pittsburgh!

Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories.

When you value your family over anything else you're always going in the right direction.

I've been wanting to have my own family since I was young. It just took me a while to find the perfect woman.

I have nothing but troubles with my car. Every Sunday I take my family out for a push.

Yes, your family history has some sad chapters. But your history doesn't have to be your future. The generational garbage can stop here and now.

Women in my family are the center of things. All good things emanate from them. The guys usually mess up.

In the end, money should serve something greater than just money. It should serve you, your family, the people you want to touch.

If you are really standing up for the family, you then have to say, how do we change our school system, how do we fix tax policy so that our families are supported?

I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm probably the happiest guy in the world.

My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot.

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?

Pick a dysfunction and it's a family problem.

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.

Enjoy the time you have with your friends & family. That doesn't mean spend money you don't have on them. It means enjoy your time with them.

For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift.

I was lucky enough to have a loving present father in my family.

Part of my family were ranchers. So you were expected to be quite macho. You weren't expected to cry. I was the exact opposite of that.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

No mommy's kisses and no daddy's smile. Nobody wants me, I'm nobody's child.

If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now

I am convinced that America's great sea of goodwill can be, in fact, a rising tide, a tide that could lift every veteran and every family of our wounded and fallen.

The older I get, the more important my view of the family is.

Some might say that it's easier to be the runner than the runner's family.

I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer.

The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.

I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys.

What is a cozy home? Where you enter and you feel the radiance of your divine self.

If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.

I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.

No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.

The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces.

Family - see Fascist State.

I model my life after my Lord and Master Jesus Christ and his life. He has called me into God's family and I am a representative for him so I just try to be obedient to what He asks me to do.