300 Quotes on Family

• Inherited futures are the silent contracts we inherit: a playground of his gifts Noel be spirited voices: some skein neatly spun, others frayed threads waiting for us to pick up the fabric of our own stories.

  Author: Juniper Sinclair

• Sewn into the fabric of ancestry, every inherited dream holds a rival tomorrow, beckoning with burdens and bright tomorrows; the challenge lies in drafting our own testament among the palpable ghosts.

  Author: Elise Jardine

• Our wombs do not dictate resolution, yet the questionnaires of inherited histories knot Rainbow despair with Purple realm chances unnoticed.

  Author: Elara Fiennes

• We must navigate our legacies with care; sometimes optimism becomes our shackle, framing a path in shadows we don't wish to walk.

  Author: Aisha Melhoun

• Inherited futures are like scripted indecisions--every beckoning generation lives in the parchment laydown of elder dreams, challenged to scribble their unveiling plots.

  Author: Amelia York

• In understanding my DNA, I unearthed not just roots, but the many branches that make a life -- free to grow in directions dependent on each journey I'd live.

  Author: Maya Archer

• Understanding our genetic roots is like ununearthing a book in a language not everyone can read, yet somehow extendsd aria mais siapa jiran together the laughter and sorrol of newfound kin.

  Author: Davina Mendes

• In the kaleidoscope of genetic ancestry, every swirled hue merges histories unseen, prompting us to confront those narratives defining who we now unfurl.

  Author: Janelle Alarcon

• In the tapestry of our DNA, the colors of history illuminate who we are and weave multiple identities where one is simply not enough.

  Author: Elara Jenkins

• Colliding with the mirror of ancestry reveals not only the face of my forebears but also questions long obscured beneath generations of silence.

  Author: Ailani Trueblood

• Each DNA strand binds us to echoes of our past, yet we hold the map, stronger forged in choices than codified by heritage.

  Author: Fateh Imani

• Unleashing the intellectually curious through liberated play breeds innovation, chiseling avenues from cliffs of impossibility.

  Author: Miranda Finch

• The most valuable inheritance you can give your child is not riches, but the strength of their own dreams.

  Author: Maya Angelou

• Success is often followed by a long line of surprised relatives.

  Author: Jack Wilkinson

• All great change begins at the dinner table

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• Some people don't believe in heroes, but they haven't met my grandpa.

  Author: Sharon Guerrero

• No amount of money or success can replace time spent with your loved ones

  Author: Tony Robbins

• The most beautiful things in life are not things, they are experiences shared with loved ones.

  Author: Sophia Williams

• The riches of life aren't in its commodities, but in moments shared with loved ones.

  Author: Sophia Rivera

• The most important things in life are not things, but the people we love and the memories we create.

  Author: Jennifer Smith

• The greatest joys in life are not found in things, but in moments shared with loved ones.

  Author: Gabriella Rossi

• The greatest gifts in life are not things, but moments shared with loved ones

  Author: Emily Smith

• The greatest treasures are not found in possession, but in experiences shared with loved ones.

  Author: Samantha Jacobs

• Family is not always about blood. It's about who is willing to hold your hand when you need it the most.

  Author: Sarah Smith

• Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.

  Author: Lisa Smith

• The greatest treasures are not found in wealth, but in moments shared with loved ones.

  Author: Samantha Reynolds

• Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.

  Author: Terry Zwigoff

• There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.

  Author: Edward Zwick

• Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

  Author: John Zimmerman

• My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

  Author: Zinedine Zidane

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

  Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky

• Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way.

  Author: Niklas Zennstrom

• 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.

  Author: Renee Zellweger

• I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.

  Author: Moon Zappa

• Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

  Author: Muhammad Yunus

• A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

  Author: Marguerite Yourcenar

• My brother Larry. He taught me how hard work and dedication to the game was the only way to make it. He's taken care of all my business activities for me and my family for many years, and I thank him for that.

  Author: Robin Yount

• You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.

  Author: Robin Yount

• In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation.

  Author: James Young

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

  Author: Tina Yothers

• I definitely have a family. I have a boyfriend who has kids, and we do normal things every day, like get up and go to school. Eat breakfast, lunch and dinner.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend.

  Author: Susannah York

• Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.

  Author: Zakk Wylde

• Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.

  Author: Will Wright

• We fought during 'The Wall,' which was an album Waters wrote, based on his family story, we clashed long before that, during the period of the Dark Side and 'Wish You Were Here.' Actually, we never got along.

  Author: Rick Wright

• When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

  Author: John Woolman

• There have been trade-offs every day, every month, every year. There's a lot that I missed and I do have regrets in that area. But I have been able to bring to my family the richness of being a journalist.

  Author: Judy Woodruff

• In my family, they were all big boozers.

  Author: Ron Wood

• My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.

  Author: John Woo

• In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.

  Author: William Wilson

• Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

  Author: William Wilson

• Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

  Author: Earl Wilson

• The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.

  Author: Dennis Wilson

• My family is very theatrical.

  Author: Debra Wilson

• We always performed for our church, but we also just performed whenever the family got together.

  Author: Debra Wilson

• Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

  Author: Serena Williams

• Tennis just a game, family is forever.

  Author: Serena Williams

• When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?

  Author: Robin Williams

• One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

  Author: Mary Williams

• I felt they had really moved the characters in a direction that was very interesting. The family had really felt the impact of what had happened to the.

  Author: JoBeth Williams

• I want to be here, for my family. I want to be here for my baby. I want to see the birth of my baby.

  Author: Jayson Williams

• We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.

  Author: Prince William

• Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side.

  Author: William Wiley

• I want to conquer the world and it seems like my own family is putting a stop to that.

  Author: Kim Wilde

• I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

  Author: Kim Wilde

• I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.

  Author: Vanna White

• We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.

  Author: Ryan White

• My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.

  Author: Ryan White

• AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.

  Author: Ryan White

• When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

  Author: Forest Whitaker

• I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn't want that to happen.

  Author: Kim Weston

• I don't think at that time I realized how important it was and how important it was for me to be here and carry on that legacy in our family of being a photographer.

  Author: Kim Weston

• What I got out of it was a great experience working with great people and it becoming a tremendous - basically - a family at the end that none of us wanted to leave.

  Author: Shane West

• Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.

  Author: Randy West

• If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

  Author: Kanye West

• Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

  Author: Jessamyn West

• I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.

  Author: Adam West

• By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

  Author: Lawrence Welk

• We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.

  Author: Lawrence Welk

• Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come.

  Author: Bernice Weissbourd

• Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

  Author: Bernice Weissbourd

• The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

  Author: Adam Weishaupt

• The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.

  Author: Adam Weishaupt

• I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its not the easiest thing in the world to live with a kid who's trying to become a rock and roll drummer.

  Author: Max Weinberg

• I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.

  Author: Karrie Webb

• It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.

  Author: Karrie Webb

• I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.

  Author: Sigourney Weaver

• I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.

  Author: Jackie Weaver

• And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.

  Author: Damon Wayans

• Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

  Author: Diane Watson

• I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.

  Author: Ethel Waters

• My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

  Author: Ethel Waters

• Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

  Author: Charles Warner

• You do become very close like a family but because you see each other for such an intense period of time on the set everyday. You really don't end up socializing that much.

  Author: Sela Ward

• I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

  Author: Patrick Warburton

• I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.

  Author: Patrick Warburton

• Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.

  Author: Julie Walters

• Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

  Author: Julie Walters

• I didn't have a very religious family.

  Author: Barbara Walters

• Because my parents, growing up, they worked hard. Everyone in my family woke up early in the morning. I used to see my mother and my father go off to work, and come back and, no matter what, they had time for the kids.

  Author: Herschel Walker

• I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center.

  Author: Greg Walden

• I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why the media wouldn't leave me in peace.

  Author: Grete Waitz

• I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family.

  Author: Grete Waitz

• If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

  Author: Tony Visconti

• 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.

  Author: Tony Visconti

• My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

  Author: Tony Visconti

• Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.

  Author: Tim Vine

• Let us tackle the big issues with bold ideas that transform Iowa to accomplish our shared mission to grow Iowa, and realize our shared vision of Iowa as the best place to live, work and raise a family.

  Author: Thomas Vilsack

• And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent.

  Author: Linda Vester

• Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.

  Author: Patricia Velasquez

• My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.

  Author: Johnny Vegas

• You have to defend your honor. And your family.

  Author: Suzanne Vega

• I was allowed to meet my family every two weeks for a half hour.

  Author: Mordechai Vanunu

• I talked about my family, my family's so important.

  Author: Jim Valvano

• People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.

  Author: Jim Valvano

• It's kind of like family. I can't say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other. Everyone's fully grown adult women with lives.

  Author: Kathy Valentine

• The Neighbours cast is like a second family.

  Author: Holly Valance

• Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.

  Author: Robert Urich

• Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

  Author: Walter Ulbricht

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

  Author: Nobuo Uematsu

• I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.

  Author: Anne Tyler

• For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

  Author: Anne Tyler

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

  Author: Anne Tyler

• You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

  Author: Desmond Tutu

• A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household.

  Author: Anthea Turner

• By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.

  Author: Tanya Tucker

• A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

  Author: Anthony Trollope

• It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

  Author: Jeanne Tripplehorn

• But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three.

  Author: Jeanne Tripplehorn

• The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

  Author: Calvin Trillin

• I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.

  Author: Carrot Top

• My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.

  Author: Bill Toomey

• Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family.

  Author: Bill Toomey

• The fans and supporters are also part of the Olympic family.

  Author: Bill Toomey

• I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

  Author: Marisa Tomei

• All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

  Author: Leo Tolstoy

• The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.

  Author: Glenn Tipton

• And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.

  Author: Mel Tillis

• You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.

  Author: Mel Tillis

• 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.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.

  Author: Billy Thornton

• The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.

  Author: Mac Thornberry

• For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about.

  Author: John Thorn

• This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

  Author: John Thorn

• All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

  Author: Emma Thompson

• Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

  Author: Emma Thompson

• Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.

  Author: Marlo Thomas

• It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

  Author: Lewis Thomas

• Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats.

  Author: Henry Thomas

• Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.

  Author: Alan Thicke

• There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.

  Author: Alan Thicke

• We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.

  Author: Alan Thicke

• Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends - they will never go out of fashion.

  Author: Niki Taylor

• We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.

  Author: Harold Taylor

• My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.

  Author: Christine Taylor

• After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.

  Author: Ellen Tauscher

• Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.

  Author: Koichi Tanaka

• I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

  Author: Amy Tan

• No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

  Author: Amy Tan

• Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

• People sort of take it for granted, but the more you see of the media world the more you appreciate a paper like the Times where its family continues to invest in editorial quality and I think it's the truly is the best paper in the world.

  Author: David Talbot

• Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.

  Author: George Takei

• What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom.

  Author: Bob Taft

• I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

  Author: Antonio Tabucchi

• I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

  Author: Wanda Sykes

• A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

  Author: Charles Swindoll

• My family lives there, so I come back sometimes between shows for a couple days. I get back a couple times a year. When I was 30 to 34 I was weirded out when I came back - you know, how your past gets away from you. It's grown so much.

  Author: Matthew Sweet

• My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

  Author: Gloria Swanson

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

  Author: Janet Suzman

• After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers.

  Author: Andrew Sullivan

• My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly.

  Author: Mark Strong

• That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

  Author: August Strindberg

• We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

  Author: Barbra Streisand

• The family ties between hundreds of thousands of German families and their American relatives led many to think that America would never join a second war against Germany.

  Author: Julius Streicher

• There are times everyone needs to be together for me and we all just work together; making sure that my energy is good and right when I go do what I'm going to do. That means the family needs to spend time together.

  Author: Picabo Street

• I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with.

  Author: Picabo Street

• My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

  Author: Meryl Streep

• A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

  Author: Igor Stravinsky

• Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.

  Author: Michael Strahan

• Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids.

  Author: Mink Stole

• I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

  Author: Sting

• I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

  Author: Joseph Stiglitz

• Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

  Author: David Stiers

• My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.

  Author: David Stiers

• But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we're all susceptible to becoming alcoholics.

  Author: Payne Stewart

• We grew up with so much love in our family.

  Author: Payne Stewart

• Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I'm trying my best to do that.

  Author: Payne Stewart

• I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.

  Author: Pamela Stephenson

• I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income.

  Author: George Stephen

• They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?

  Author: Casey Stengel

• Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

  Author: Gloria Steinem

• In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

  Author: Jack Steinberger

• I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

  Author: Jack Steinberger

• It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.

  Author: Gwen Stefani

• My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing.

  Author: Gwen Stefani

• There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course there's sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family.

  Author: Peter Steele

• I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers.

  Author: Cliff Stearns

• Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

  Author: Freya Stark

• There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

  Author: Willie Stargell

• I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.

  Author: Sylvester Stallone

• In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

  Author: Benjamin Spock

• I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since.

  Author: Carl Spitteler

• I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family.

  Author: Catherine Spence

• I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.

  Author: Aaron Spelling

• Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.

  Author: John Speke

• My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

  Author: Nicholas Sparks

• I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.

  Author: Kevin Spacey

• I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

  Author: Sissy Spacek

• I was born into a family of preachers.

  Author: David Soul

• When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.

  Author: George Soros

• I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

  Author: Theodore Sorensen

• A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

  Author: Susan Sontag

• Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.

  Author: Georg Solti

• Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

  Author: Valerie Solanas

• A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.

  Author: Yeardley Smith

• Even though we were all celebrities to a certain extent, we all looked at each other as family.

  Author: Michael Smith

• I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.

  Author: Kate Smith

• Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.

  Author: Kate Smith

• It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself.

  Author: Jaclyn Smith

• The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.

  Author: Dodie Smith

• Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.

  Author: Daniel Smith

• You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.

  Author: Courtney Smith

• You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community.

  Author: Al Smith

• I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.

  Author: Jane Smiley

• Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

  Author: Agnes Smedley

• Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.

  Author: Allan Sloan

• I was actually very pleased that they let me do it, because I feel very deeply for breast cancer survivors. I don't have it, but it is in my family. I've always been very aware of it. I go for mammograms and checkups.

  Author: Erika Slezak

• And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.

  Author: Louise Slaughter

• Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.

  Author: Louise Slaughter

• I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.

  Author: Nancy Sinatra

• Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences.

  Author: George Simpson

• I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.

  Author: Simone Signoret

• When you worked in a studio it was the studio system that you kind of missed because it was a big, big family. I mean MGM had 5,000 people working a day there. You miss it.

  Author: George Sidney

• A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

  Author: Hugh Sidey

• I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.

  Author: Joe Shuster

• I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

  Author: Andrew Shue

• I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.

  Author: Maria Shriver

• I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

  Author: Martin Short

• I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.

  Author: Martin Short

• I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

  Author: Billy Sherwood

• When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.

  Author: Allan Sherman

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

  Author: Sam Sheppard

• Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.

  Author: Sam Sheppard

• Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.

  Author: Sam Sheppard

• Certainly, my father would not want to see me destroy myself in this business, as so many people in our family have been destroyed. I try to take good care of myself, but we are fighting the good fight, and the truth is powerful.

  Author: Sam Sheppard

• I know you are going to be embarrassed. We're all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment... silence has never protected women or helped them. We need to talk about it more with our, you know - whoever - our friends, our family.

  Author: Cybill Shepherd

• I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

  Author: Alan Shepard

• We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

  Author: Alan Shepard

• Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• All my musical foundations go back to the age of 3. My family tell me that I used to listen to the old crystal set, then go to the piano and pick out the tune that I just heard.

  Author: George Shearing

• The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

  Author: Irwin Shaw

• Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

  Author: George Shaw

• If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

  Author: George Shaw

• A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

  Author: George Shaw

• The dream was not to put one black family in the White house, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

  Author: Al Sharpton

• I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.

  Author: Tony Shalhoub

• With all my fans I got a family again.

  Author: Tupac Shakur

• If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.

  Author: Tupac Shakur

• The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got his information on this topic from his millionaire supporters. For the average working family, these are trying economic times.

  Author: Jose Serrano

• We feel really blessed to have been asked to come here, and to have the opportunity for our family to be able to look into the eyes of these people, and in some way help.

  Author: Connie Sellecca

• We got more out of this as a family than we were able to give to the people.

  Author: Connie Sellecca

• A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

  Author: John Selden

• I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.

  Author: David Selby

• There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

  Author: Jerry Seinfeld

• If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you're not really needed by your family, but you're there. And my kids like to know I'm there.

  Author: Bob Seger

• I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant.

  Author: Leah Sears

• We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

  Author: John Sculley

• Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

  Author: Willard Scott

• Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England.

  Author: Tony Scott

• Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

  Author: Richard Scott

• The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world.

  Author: Richard Scott

• Literally every department of state government has gone through, or is in a period of, chaos. Not just fiscal chaos, but certainly as we saw in the Department of Children and Family Services and State Fair Agency and many of Walker's departments, there is absolute chaos.

  Author: Bill Scott

• You know what, we're very skinny in our family.

  Author: Ashley Scott

• It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

  Author: Martin Scorsese

• I know that Montana is the greatest place in the world to raise a family, to start and grow a business. You know it, and I know it and now we will tell the world.

  Author: Brian Schweitzer

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

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the House - and for the good of all, he should step aside and address those things that should be most important - his and his family's well-being.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• I always knew I was going to be a family man.

  Author: Rick Schroder

• When you don't have kids and you're in a Catholic family - one of my sisters had 10 children in 11 years - she's part rabbit - you feel kind of guilty about that. So, I want to do things for other people's children.

  Author: Marge Schott

• If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

  Author: Karl Schlegel

• A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

  Author: Karl Schlegel

• I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to?

  Author: Curt Schilling

• For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer we played football outside.

  Author: Claudia Schiffer

• Make a living will. Talk about it. Death is going to happen to everybody. Write it down. Even if you write it on a piece of paper at home and have your family witness it, you need to write it down.

  Author: Michael Schiavo

• My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.

  Author: Jack Scalia

• In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

  Author: Antonin Scalia

• Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

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