My Family Quotes

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

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

No person ever died that had a family.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

... 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.

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.

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.

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.

In the newborn child is realized the common good 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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