My Family Quotes

I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.

I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

You're married, and suddenly you have your own family. There's a nice comfort in that. That part of your life is certain ... You've got your home in that other person.

Family is fun, way more fun than music.

I do not come from a rich family, but I come from a really good family.

Family photos, pictures of groups, those are truely wonderful. And they are just as good as the old masters, just as rich and just as beautifully composed (what does that mean anyway).

My family thought if I spent time in the military, I'd become more reasonable, a bit calmer. But I've always been extreme in what I do - both as a believer and a nonbeliever.

Lord, this humble house we'd keep Sweet with play and calm with sleep. Help us so that we may give Beauty to the lives we live. Let Thy love and let Thy grace Shine upon our dwelling place.

The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.

As you get older, you have your tribe of women that you grow and age gracefully with and you share wisdom with. That's your clan. That's your family. That's your strength.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.

We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.

We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family, to make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons.

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

If a poor family falls on hard times in the woods, and no one is around to care, did it really happen?

A lie is a lie... unless your friends and family are in on it. Then it's a "commonly held belief."

So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.

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.

Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

To me, that's the wealth of my life: my friends and family and the experience I get to share with them.

Divorce is fairly common these days, and I think many times people disregard the emotional impact that divorce has on a couple and a family, because it happens so frequently.

Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.

That is the heart and soul of the American dream, homeownership, the idea of being able to buy a house and start to build your family.

If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and less to the words of anger

I just see me, an ordinary girl. I know my life is not typical, but I have tried to stay really grounded and true to myself. My family really helps me with that.

Shake It Up definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family.

Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track.

It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.

Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us.

Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.

Members of the Senate and House, if they want to send troops into war, should be forced to send a family member. That would really make everyone stop and go, 'Ohhh-kaaay.'

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.

Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.

There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap.

Your home is where your family is... Where someone waits for you and thinks about you.

The point is, you have family and friends who love you. You have a world out there just waiting for you to conquer it. You have a life that will be anything you make it. That's the point.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.