Quotes on Family

This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.

Author: Willie Aames

For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.

Author: Paula Abdul

When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.

Author: Victoria Abril

I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family.

Author: Gary Ackerman

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

Author: Douglas Adams

If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell.

Author: Sheldon Adelson

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

Author: Alfred Adler

The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

Author: Felix Adler

I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.

Author: Steven Adler

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

Author: Casey Affleck

My entire family were Democrats all our lives. But because how furious I was about the previous administration, I turned in my card to become a Republican. I did not want to be known as a Democrat under that person's regime.

Author: Danny Aiello

I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.

Author: Clay Aiken

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

Author: Todd Akin

The things that make me happy most are my family and working.

Author: Damon Albarn

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

Author: Josef Albers

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Author: Amos Alcott

Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra.

Author: Jean Alesi

When I go back to France now I spend all the my time with press and sponsors. I do not have a lot of time to spend at home with my family.

Author: Jean Alesi

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

Author: Lloyd Alexander

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

Author: Lloyd Alexander

Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

Author: Lucille Allard

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

Author: Fred Allen

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

Author: Gracie Allen

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

Author: James Allen

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

Author: Tom Allen

Well, I've had to deal with everything in my life... leavin' the family, learnin' what not and what to do.

Author: Luther Allison

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.

Author: Sidney Altman

I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.

Author: Christiane Amanpour

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Author: Henri Amiel

A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

Author: Cleveland Amory

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

Author: Anthony Anderson

We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane.

Author: Greg Anderson

If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities.

Author: Kevin Anderson

I am the odd man out in the family.

Author: Loni Anderson

I do know the Spelling family. I worked for Aaron Spelling when I was a brunette. I've known them since Tori was a little girl.

Author: Loni Anderson

You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can't leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I'm that messed-up one in the family.

Author: Louie Anderson

I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.

Author: Ursula Andress

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.

Author: Mario Andretti

Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed.

Author: Prince Andrew

When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue.

Author: Prince Andrew

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.

Author: Julie Andrews

After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.

Author: Victoria Angeles

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

Author: Jennifer Aniston

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

Author: Francesca Annis

I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

Author: Francesca Annis

The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.

Author: Mary Antin

I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.

Author: Christina Applegate

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.

Author: Avi Arad

What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong, have respect for my people, my family, my nation and mankind.

Author: Alexis Arguello

We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.

Author: Dick Armey

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

Author: Malcolm Arnold

This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.

Author: Gerard Arpey

I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.

Author: Richard Attenborough

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.

Author: Emanuel Ax

I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.

Author: Dan Aykroyd

There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.

Author: Ibrahim Babangida

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

Author: Joe Baca

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Author: Richard Bach

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Author: Richard Bach

I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

Author: Abdullah Badawi

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Author: Walter Bagehot

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Author: Anita Baker

My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God.

Author: Bob Balaban

I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.

Author: Bob Balaban

I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

Author: Bob Balaban

It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

Author: Adam Baldwin

They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.

Author: Afrika Bambaataa

There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.

Author: Albert Bandura

To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

Author: Dennis Banks

That has always been it for me: family first.

Author: Leslie Banks

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

Author: Roger Bannister

There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!

Author: Amiri Baraka

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

Author: Joseph Barbera

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

Author: Brigitte Bardot

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.

Author: Charles Barkley

We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.

Author: Julia Barr

But this is called show business, not show family.

Author: Alice Barrett

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

Author: Bruce Barton

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

Author: Mikhail Baryshnikov

Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

Author: Abu Bashir

Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.

Author: Gregory Bateson

The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

Author: Mary Bateson

The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.

Author: Bruno Bauer

You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.

Author: Birch Bayh

But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.

Author: Birch Bayh

I know what I have to do and I plan to do it. It's a good time to get it done and get it behind me. It's treatable, so why not treat it now? My family will give me comfort but I have to do this alone.

Author: Don Baylor

My Eighth District, like others, counts on these family businesses and their teams working hard to support their families and aid their communities. As retailers, these teams often bring different or unique products to the marketplace.

Author: Melissa Bean

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

Author: Sean Bean

As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian's efforts to reach all Americans.

Author: Xavier Becerra

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

Author: Alison Bechdel

The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.

Author: Gary Becker

I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it.

Author: Kristen Bell

I don't like staying in hotels. I like to be in my own bed. San Diego as a city is really awesome. The only hard part of it for me is that I'm away from my family and my house. But as far as shooting down there, we get amazing locations, and the crew is really, really stellar down there. They are really fun.

Author: Kristen Bell

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.

Author: Joachim Bellay

I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family.

Author: Monica Bellucci

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

Author: Robert Benchley

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.

Author: Bo Bennett

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Author: Stella Benson

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.

Author: Tom Berenger

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

Author: Michael Bergin

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

Author: Ugo Betti

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

Author: Josh Billings

Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.

Author: Jeff Bingaman

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

Author: Jeff Bingaman

We're actually building onto the house to make it bigger because we want to start a family.

Author: Traci Bingham

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

Author: Juliette Binoche

I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren't dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.

Author: Brad Bird

That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.

Author: Brad Bird

I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.

Author: Jane Birkin

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

Author: Jacqueline Bisset

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

Author: Bjork

We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition.

Author: Joan Blades

So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.

Author: Ruben Blades

So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.

Author: Ruben Blades

The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted.

Author: Robert Blake

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

Author: Orlando Bloom

I used to date Latoya for awhile, I was a close freind of the family.

Author: Kurtis Blow

It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security.

Author: Heston Blumenthal

Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.

Author: John Boehner

And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.

Author: John Boehner

After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.

Author: Suzy Bogguss

I love my family.

Author: Manute Bol

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Author: Erma Bombeck

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Author: Erma Bombeck

We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

Author: Kit Bond

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.

Author: Lisa Bonet

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.

Author: Lisa Bonet

My family had liberal positions.

Author: Emma Bonino

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

Author: Emma Bonino

Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.

Author: Wes Borland

Happy Days was about a family... although the show was shot in the 70s, it was about a family in the 50s. I realized that kids were watching their parents grow up and the parents were watching themselves grow up. That was the key to the success of our show.

Author: Tom Bosley

You have to understand that during the course of our show, we were a family for five hours a day, five days a week, maybe four days a week. And we experienced the same things that we experienced in our own family.

Author: Tom Bosley

I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare.

Author: Thomas Bowdler

Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.

Author: Thomas Bowdler

At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family.

Author: Jack Bowman

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.

Author: Paul Boyer

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.

Author: Paul Boyer

I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family.

Author: Terry Bradshaw

I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.

Author: Sonia Braga

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.

Author: Richard Branson

I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.

Author: Benjamin Bratt

I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids.

Author: Benjamin Bratt

My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today.

Author: Andre Braugher

I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.

Author: Arthur Bremer

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.

Author: William Brennan, Jr.

I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

Author: Edie Brickell

My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.

Author: Beau Bridges

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

Author: Beau Bridges

I needed to feed my family. I read a couple of the episodes. How can you keep on doing the same thing?

Author: Lloyd Bridges

I reluctantly left the series because a) my age. I'm 68 tomorrow and time is very precious for me to spend time at home with my family and especially with the grandchildren. They're aged 7 and 5. After three years I became homesick for my home.

Author: Richard Briers