family - Quotes & Sayings

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.

Sandra Bullock

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

Joseph Stiglitz

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.

Mitt Romney

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

Bil Keane

A few years ago, I realized I was decorating and designing my house around what was beautiful rather than practical for my family. When I made that realization, everything kind of clicked for me. I started being intentional about designing spaces with my kids in mind rather than picture-perfect rooms.

Joanna Gaines

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

Douglas Coupland

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

Douglas Coupland

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

Elizabeth Edwards

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

Darius Rucker

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

Maureen O'Hara

I'm the only one in my family who is deaf, and there are still conversations that go around me that I miss out on. And I ask what's going on, and I have to ask to be included. But I'm not going to be sad about it. I don't live in sad isolation. It's just a situation I'm used to.

Marlee Matlin

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

Al Roker

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

Heidi Klum

For my family, 'black-ish' is the reward on a Thursday evening - a day after the show officially airs, when it's finally available to be streamed.

Jacqueline Woodson

I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.

Sting

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

Jamie Lee Curtis

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

Richard G. Scott

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

Richard G. Scott

I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.

Cameron Diaz

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

Patty Duke

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

Paula Abdul

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

Cate Blanchett

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 life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

Gwyneth Paltrow

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

John Cheever

The family's dream was to see me receive a high degree abroad and to return to become a university professor - on the door to my study room, a sign was placed reading 'Dr. Ahmed,' even though I was still far from becoming a doctor.

Ahmed Zewail

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

Adam Braun

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

One of the things my family taught me - I think very important in religion and science - is that you must be ready to stand up for what you think. Decide what you really think is best, and stick with it.

Charles H. Townes

I wouldn't want to disappoint my family, my friends, my fans.

Jake Arrieta

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

Michael Enzi

As the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name.

Connie Chung

I grew up not really having a father figure, and it didn't bother me, because he wasn't there in the first place. But then he started other families, and I was jealous. It was like he was happy without our family.

Labrinth

Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.

Christina Milian

I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

Richard M. Daley

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

Edward Furlong

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

Anita Baker

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 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

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

Vartan Gregorian

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

Kathleen Turner

Baseball is a movable conversation across nine innings. It is eye contact with the person seated next to you in a park where the pitcher is separated from the batter by 60 feet, six inches or in a family room where a 60-inch TV screen hangs on the wall.

Mike Barnicle

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

Gwen Stefani

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

David McCallum

From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.

Olav Thon

The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.

Faith Hill

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

Anthony Anderson

I love my family.

Manute Bol

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

Amos Oz