Family Quotes

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.
– Margaret Sanger
The most important thing in the world is family and love.
– John Wooden
The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world.
– Richard G. Scott
The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.
– Charles Stanley
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
– Charles Kuralt
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
– Christopher Lasch
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
– Christopher Lasch
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
– Christopher Lasch
The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
– Christopher Lasch
The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.
– Suze Orman
The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.
– Mario Batali
The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible.
– Christopher Monckton
The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves.
– Marco Rubio
The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want.
– Scott Adams
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
– Desmond Tutu
The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
– Talcott Parsons
The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
– Faith Hill
The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.
– Bill Cosby
The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
– H. Rap Brown
The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.
– Max Muller
The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.
– Iain Duncan Smith
The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
– Ring Lardner
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
– Christopher Lasch
The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
– George Santayana
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
– Pope John XXIII
The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
– Felix Adler
The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.
– Martin Scorsese
The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.
– Danny Boyle
The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
– Al Sharpton
The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.
– Dee Dee Myers
The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.
– Eminem
The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.
– Howard Gardner
The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.
– Charles Eastman
The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.
– Kerry Washington
The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.
– Henry Louis Gates
The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.
– B. B. King
The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.
– Ice Cube
The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?
– Terry Pratchett
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
– Christopher Lasch
The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.
– Mike Pence
That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.
– Peter Singer
Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!
– Oscar Pistorius
Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.
– William Hague
Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.
– Richard Pryor
Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.
– Jennifer Granholm
Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.
– Nicole Kidman
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.
– Muhammad Yunus
Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.
– Adam Sandler
Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.
– Bob Ehrlich
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
– Margaret Mead
Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.
– Curt Schilling
Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.
– Jason Reitman
Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend.
– Susannah York
Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I'm going to be married and buried there.
– Katy Perry
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
– Thomas Mann
Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.
– John Boehner
Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.
– Emo Philips
President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise... is to help you and your family.
– Mitt Romney
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.
– Willard Scott
Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.
– Bonnie Raitt
Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful.
– Ayelet Waldman
Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.
– Tiger Woods
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
– George Bernard Shaw
People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.
– Keith Henson
People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.
– James Taylor
People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.
– Phillip Noyce
People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
– LaToya Jackson
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
– Doug Coupland
Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
– Bernice Weissbourd
Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.
– Alanis Morissette
Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.
– Clive Owen
Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.
– Julia Sweeney
Our family life was certainly not intellectual.
– Douglass North
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.
– Dennis Prager
One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.
– Scott Ritter
One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.
– Paul Harris
One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.
– Nik Wallenda
One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'
– David Mamet
One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
– Ralph Fiennes
Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.
– Chevy Chase
On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.
– Madonna Ciccone
On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.
– Bobby Jindal
Of course, I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes, just like my mama, grandmother and family shared with me over the years. And now, I'll be adding a little bit of a lighter touch to some of these wonderful dishes.
– Paula Deen
Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, 'I'm an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!' So here we stand. Americans have a choice.
– Mitt Romney
None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.
– Lena Dunham
Nobody in my family ever thought that I'd a be a model.
– Cindy Crawford
No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.
– Bill Murray
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
– Lee Iacocca
No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.
– Tom Hanks
No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.
– Dee Dee Myers
No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
– J. Edgar Hoover
Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
– Faith Hill
My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.
– Johnny Vegas
My work and my family are very important to me.
– Stephen Hawking
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.
– Nicholas Sparks
My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family.
– Jeff Foxworthy
My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.
– P. J. O'Rourke