Family Quotes

My whole family is very sarcastic and constantly making jokes.
– Emily Deschanel
My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.
– Henry Fonda
My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.
– Denzel Washington
My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.
– Julie Andrews
My rule is, whatever you were calling me four years ago is what you should be calling me now, because I don't like it when my family or close friends call me Nicki Minaj. To me I'm not Nicki Minaj when I'm with them.
– Nicki Minaj
My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.
– Michael Symon
My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing.
– Gwen Stefani
My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.
– Vivien Leigh
My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.
– Hugh Jackman
My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, to be a good representative of my family is probably my greatest accomplishment thus far.
– Robert Griffin III
My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.
– Mike Honda
My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.
– Charles Kuralt
My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.
– Michelle Obama
My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
– Twyla Tharp
My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.
– Hugh Leonard
My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.
– Dr. Laura Schlessinger
My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.
– Kim Kardashian
My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.
– Shia LaBeouf
My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.
– Charlize Theron
My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.
– Gwen Stefani
My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.
– William Shatner
My kids give me the balance to live right.
– Celine Dion
My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
– Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
– David Mamet
My health and my family are the core of my being.
– Jon Bon Jovi
My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.
– Giada De Laurentiis
My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.
– Reba McEntire
My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.
– Henry Louis Gates
My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We've all been through so much together.
– Shaun White
My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.
– Kelly Clarkson
My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.
– Ang Lee
My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.
– Harvey Fierstein
My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.
– Stevie Wonder
My father never talked about the sacrifices that the family made for me.
– Novak Djokovic
My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.
– Emeril Lagasse
My family, my parents are hippies.
– Shia LaBeouf
My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.
– Reba McEntire
My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.
– Steven Patrick Morrissey
My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that home explode, too.
– Jeffrey Kluger
My family were from Jamaica.
– Diane Abbott
My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.
– Shia LaBeouf
My family was my guide to my reality.
– Haywood Nelson
My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are.
– Vinny Guadagnino
My family really does come first. It always did and always will.
– Meryl Streep
My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me - their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.
– Giada De Laurentiis
My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.
– Gus Van Sant
My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.
– Mario Batali
My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.
– Jim Carrey
My family is my life, and I'll never lose that.
– Jessica Simpson
My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.
– David Sedaris
My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.
– Laura Linney
My family is awesome.
– Miranda Lambert
My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.
– Jane Goodall
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
– Anne Tyler
My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.
– Bobby Darin
My family background was deeply Christian.
– Abbe Pierre
My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.
– Emma Bunton
My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'
– Henry Louis Gates
My family and friends treat me as they always have.
– Daniel Craig
My family and I built my whole career from scratch.
– Maria Sharapova
My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church materials that were created on our own personal time.
– Robert H. Schuller
My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.
– Dane Cook
My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.
– Wentworth Miller
My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles from textiles I went to fashion.
– Roberto Cavalli
My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.
– Joel Osteen
Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
– Eddie Vedder
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
– Christopher Lasch
Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.'
– Tony Campolo
More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.
– Joyce Maynard
Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.
– Julie Burchill
Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
– T. E. Lawrence
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.
– Bruce Barton
Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.
– Jonathan Sacks
Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.
– Richard G. Scott
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
– Joseph Joubert
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
– Hans-Georg Gadamer
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
– George Eliot
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
– Billy Joel
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.
– Agnes Smedley
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
– Queen Elizabeth II
Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.
– Elizabeth Warren
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
– Imelda Marcos
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.
– Christopher Lasch
Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
– Dennis Prager
Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.
– Jonathan Sacks
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
– Pope John XXIII
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
– Doug Coupland
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
– Leon Kass
It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.
– Caroline Kennedy
It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.
– Jeffrey Kluger
It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.
– Martha Plimpton
It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.
– Elizabeth Gilbert
It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.
– Martha Plimpton
It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
– Lady Gaga
It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
– Patricia Heaton
It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.
– King Abdullah II
It's a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That's why it's a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their pets are.
– Betty White
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
– Barack Obama
It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
– Barbara Bush
It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.
– Mary J. Blige