My Family Quotes

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

Kids and family life are only as good as your wife, and she's amazing.

You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

Becoming wealthy is not a matter of how much you earn, who your parents are, or what you do.. it is a matter of managing your money properly.

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people

I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.

I felt I had a responsibility to do the right thing. And then I wanted to do the right thing by my family and there was no handbook.

We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our inability to face the truth.

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

Climate change...is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.

I still read the British papers, but I’ve never been a Royalist, ever. It’s funny, there always seems to be much more of a fascination with the Royal Family over here then there does in England.

I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values.

When you read the history of the human family, it slowly comes to you that all the world's oceans once fell as tears.

For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family.

The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.

It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.

One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.

He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.

When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.

I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to Cuba, I'd probably be in some kind of time warp.

My family is well, and that's what's important.

A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.

A child's smile reminds us that the greatest privilege in life is to know, help & enjoy the company of others

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family.

In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God’s love to everyone.

In a family it is normal to take charge of those who need help. Do not be afraid of frailty!

I love Pittsburgh. Most of my family still lives there and I try to get back a couple of times a year.

May the Lord bless the family and strengthen it in this moment of crisis

There is an ideological colonization we have to be careful of that tries to destroy the family.

Work is fundamental to the dignity of a person. . . . It gives one the ability to maintain oneself, one's family, to contribute to the growth of one's own nation.

The family is the most important wealth of a nation. May we endeavor to defend and strengthen the foundation of society.

The family is a community of love where each of us learns to relate to others and to the world around us.

Medicine comes with hope: the hope of having a healthy child, the hope of being able to raise your family.

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.

As stewards of God's creation, we are called to make the earth a beautiful garden for the human family.

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.

Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.

One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.

Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.