Family Quotes

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
– Carlos Fuentes
I had no fun. My family was too serious.
– Miuccia Prada
I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.
– Joaquin Phoenix
I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.
– Francis Ford Coppola
I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.
– Lady Gaga
I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.
– Jenny McCarthy
I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.
– Akhmad Kadyrov
I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.
– Bradley Cooper
I grew up in a Navy family.
– Elizabeth Edwards
I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
– Nadia Giosia
I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life.
– Bradley Whitford
I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.
– Drew Barrymore
I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.
– Ryan Gosling
I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
– Joseph Stiglitz
I grew up in a dysfunctional family.
– Melissa Gilbert
I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.
– Heidi Klum
I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
– Sachin Tendulkar
I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.
– Amos Oz
I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.
– Susan Sarandon
I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.
– Trevor Dunn
I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.
– Shia LaBeouf
I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.
– Betty White
I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.
– Giada De Laurentiis
I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.
– Sheryl Crow
I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends - you don't need additional reassurances that you're going to do something with a new cast of characters. I'd just as soon pass.
– Lewis Thomas
I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.
– Reba McEntire
I don't think anyone has a normal family.
– Edward Furlong
I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
– Toni Morrison
I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.
– Newt Gingrich
I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.
– Penelope Cruz
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?
– Curt Schilling
I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
– Adam Carolla
I don't have a saviour or a royal family.
– John Malkovich
I don't believe in being mean to anyone. I'm a really peaceful person. That's something I get from my family.
– Nick Carter
I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.
– Shania Twain
I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.
– Iain Duncan Smith
I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life?
– Shahrukh Khan
I do come from a strong family.
– Arlen Specter
I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.
– Liam Neeson
I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.
– Ben Stein
I do a lot of writing about my family.
– Katey Sagal
I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.
– David Hockney
I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.
– Venus Williams
I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.
– Ednita Nazario
I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.
– Katy Perry
I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.
– Mario Batali
I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
– Vera Farmiga
I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.
– Sidney Poitier
I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.
– Sting
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.
– Richard Branson
I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing.
– John Cleese
I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.
– LaToya Jackson
I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
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.
– Edie Brickell
I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.
– Alan Dershowitz
I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.
– Tom Felton
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.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
– Jet Li
I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.
– Michael Landon
I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
– Gene Tierney
I am very lucky, I have a very tight group of friends and a very supportive family, and to this date no-one has ever sold a story on me.
– Sienna Miller
I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.
– Jessica Lange
I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.
– Janet Jackson
I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I'm not a fighter.
– Herman Cain
I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.
– Elena Anaya
I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I'm like a kid.
– Shahrukh Khan
I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.
– Louis Farrakhan
I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.
– Mark Webber
I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.
– Nelson Mandela
I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.
– Lil' Kim
I am a big fan of smelly cheeses but the rest of the family don't seem to be particularly keen on them.
– Johnny Vegas
I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.
– Bjork
I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
– Bruce Springsteen
I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.
– Vivienne Westwood
I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.
– Kim Kardashian
I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.
– Brooke Burke
Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.
– Jeffrey Kluger
How do you rebel in a family of rebels?
– Nicolas Cage
Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.
– Stephen Covey
Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.
– Elizabeth Gilbert
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
– Chanakya
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.
– Gloria Steinem
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.
– Charles Dudley Warner
Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
– B. B. King
Growing up with my family gave me some of my best memories. I'd like to have a family of my own - slip away for a bit and do nothing but spend those early years with my children.
– Katherine Jenkins
Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.
– Elizabeth Edwards
Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.
– Jennifer Ellison
God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.
– Desmond Tutu
God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.
– Jerry Falwell
Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.
– Chris Christie
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
– John Ruskin
Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!
– Alanis Morissette
Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me.
– Monica Lewinsky
Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt - all this can do more for a child's well-being than any amount of money in out-of-work benefits.
– Iain Duncan Smith
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
– Garrett Hardin
From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.
– Patti Smith
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
– Charles Alexander Eastman
Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
– Harlan Coben
For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.
– Iain Duncan Smith