My Family Quotes

If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.

My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.

You don’t pick your family, you take what you’re given and you make the best of it.

All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen.

The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards.

I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.

My family life mirrors why I am the person I am.

By viewing our relationships with friends, family, and co-workers as mirrors, as teachers - we see that they are reflecting back to us exactly what we most need to learn.

So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.

I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family.

Simi? What was it you told me once about families? We have three kinds of family. Those we are born to, those who are born to us, and those we let into our hearts.

Women are the centre of the family. It's the woman who decides what's eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children's health revolves around her.

I was first in my family to go to college.

Once you get your own family clear in your head, whatever your problems are with it. You're better prepared for being an adult in the world.

Everybody thinks I'm the weirdo in the family.

I would like to grow less afraid of dying. I am infinitely less afraid today than I was 15 or 25 years ago. I was most afraid of dying when I was 33, because I come from a Catholic family.

I am very blessed to have a great group of long-term friends and a huge family that has been very loving and supportive. I try to stay connected to that and contribute as much as I can.

I am very lucky, I have a very tight group of friends and a very supportive family, and to this date no-one has ever sold a story on me.

Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.

I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer.

The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.

My main goal was to not tell my mom anything or anyone anything. Even within our family, we like to do it ourselves, we like to be our own boss, and we don't like asking for help.

I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.

I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain.

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means - the bottom line - then for me it's if the family is healthy and happy.

You can have children and love them with all your heart and soul, and love your family, and it's still OK to have a fire in you. That doesn't have anything to do with your family.

When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.

There are many animation films out there for teens, tweens and family but there are not that many real life stories.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

You might be a redneck if you entire family has ever sat around waiting for a call from the governor to spare a loved one.

Home life, home teaching, parental guidance is the panacea for all the ailments, a cure for all diseases, a remedy for all problems.

The European family may well be anything but perfect.

In the spirit of the Olympic Games, they traditionally ask that all fighting and warfare around the world stop. So, there's hope for a ceasefire within the Jackson family.

I would like to have a family someday, and I can't wait to be a stay-at-home mom.

Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.

The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model

So many of my family and friends had lost their battles against cancer. What could I do that my relatives and friends had not? What could I do that would be different?

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.

And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important.

Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight.

I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.

My family has to be very patient living with me, if you're playing a part that's not you. You have to get it right.

I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.

For the first time, the nation will have goals, benchmarks, and measureable outcomes that will help us tackle the childhood obesity epidemic one child, one family, and one community at a time.

I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day

Money, credit scores, material things don't matter. Life & death, your family & friends, once they're gone it's irreversible. Don't forget.