My Family Quotes

... family and friends aren't always ready to make the journey when you are, and you just have to keep plowing along whether they have confidence in you or not. That can be very lonely.

I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.

I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.

God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.

Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.

Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.

Hispanic values are conservative values. Hispanics are highly religious, they’re very strongly pro-traditional family... not only pro-family, but also pro-life. They are highly patriotic.

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family

No person ever died that had a family.

I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.

I consider the television set as the American fireplace, around which the whole family will gather.

I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family.

Men rise through the ranks because of potential, but women have to prove themselves - while trying to have children and having no family leave.

A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.

Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.

I thought America needed to see what a normal family was really like.

Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace. The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads.

Empathy is at the core of family stability and love. I've never had a couple come to me and say, I want a divorce; my partner understands me.

My family is and will always stay the most important to me.

Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family. Probably less.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.

You aren't accountable to anyone, teachers or family but to yourself. Make sure your surrounding s are clean in all aspects

My house has always been like everyone's house. You walk in, you're a part of the family, no matter who you are, what celebrity status you are, everyone is treated the same - with love from my mom.

I hope that this man can be won over by your bearing charitably with him, advising him prudently, and praying for him. This is what I do for your family in general and for you in particular.

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.

There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.

Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back.

If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.

My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for 'family home evening,' and I was like, 'Why aren't you people ignoring each other and watching television?'

Racing is not football or baseball or basketball where you can do it yourself. If you're good in high school, you just shine. (But in racing) you have to have a family behind you.

Personally, I think any more than two or three kids is not a family, it's a litter.

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.

I just want to have a great relationship with my child and have a great family dynamic.

My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.

I am really good about compartmentalizing and treating my family as one thing and the show or whatever my job as a secondary thing.

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

I'm a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family.

Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.

I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.

My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

I'm very proud of Family Ties. It's meant a lot to a lot of people.