A Close Family Quotes

#1. I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.

Barry Gibb

#2. A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.

Jeffrey Kluger

#3. I've never been a drinker, I've never gotten into drugs ... You know, I think I have such a close family ... I think you know my sisters do enough drinking to kind of fill up the whole family.

Kim Kardashian

#4. I suppose that's an inevitable part of human existence, but in the bosom of a close family it can, at least, be endured. For the homeless, there is no relief. Without family or friends there's only the pain.

Peter Kirby

#5. The first Superman film took up a huge chunk of our lives, but it was a wonderful time for us. We were young, my daughter was little, we were filming in London for a year, so we became like a close family.

Margot Kidder

#6. Because I come from such a close family, my natural instinct is to marry and have kids as soon as possible.

Nicole Trunfio

#7. Not everyone got a close family. Not everyone needed one.

Ann Brashares

#8. More important than a clean house is a close family.

Ann Voskamp

#9. I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.

Lee Iacocca

#10. Every sorrow is different, but you get through 'em the same way. Plenty of rest, good food, and keeping your family and friends close by." She paused a minute. "A lot of prayer doesn't hurt either.

Shannon Hitchcock

#11. In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very close family, and the Dodgers were the main topic of everybody's conversations and you could sense the affection people had for you. I don't know that such a thing exists anymore.

Don Drysdale

#12. My truest desire is fellowship with good friends, the love of a caring family, and a close relationship with God.

Wanda E. Brunstetter

#13. Ms. McMartin had no close family. Her nearest relative was a distant cousin who had recently died in Shanghai, after a severe allergic reaction to a bowl of turtle and arsenic soup.

Jacqueline West

#14. The Canadian circle in L.A. is really close. There's a magnet effect where we all just huddle together somehow. It's one big Canadian family, really.

Devon Bostick

#15. Obviously I ask my family and loved ones for advice here and there, but I kind of have a rule with the people I love that surround me - close family and close friends - that unless I ask for it, I don't really want advice thrown out.

Torrey DeVitto

#16. My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

George J. Mitchell

#17. I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.

Alonzo Mourning

#18. I know of no realm of life that can provide more companionship in a lonely world or greater feelings of security and purpose in chaotic times than the close ties of a family.

Charles R. Swindoll

#19. House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

Bill Pascrell

#20. We are a big family; we are all very close, and we always want to talk about what is going on with each other.

Javier Hernandez

#21. I am very close to my family. I have learned a lot from my father. He used to tell me to be honest with yourself and not to argue with your seniors. You don't need to be involved in any quarrel, as sometimes you need to remain silent intelligently.

Suresh Raina

#22. My family and I are so close, it's important to have a close knit relationship and to make time to spend with each other, especially at the holidays.

Gia Coppola

#23. I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

Chuck Close

#24. I do come from a very close family. And I'm fascinated, in particular, with family relationships and the relationships that we all form with friends who feel as close, if not closer, than family.

John Corey Whaley

#25. I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.

Alicia Keys

#26. You develop relationships with people, and suddenly a family of actors and crew that you became so close to are now not around anymore. I'm not too sad about it because I got to move on to something else, but it's sad the way these things turn out.

Mark Pellegrino

#27. The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.

Florence Welch

#28. In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.

Jet Li

#29. It is a family; it's a slightly dysfunctional family, but it's also very close and warm and loving family.

Anna Wintour

#30. My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with a life-threatening illness like cancer choose a point person for people to call to find out how you are doing - a sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, or close friend.

Olivia Newton-John

#31. I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality.

Andy Gibb

#32. I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

J. C. Chandor

#33. Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.

Ilka Chase

#34. My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.

Elizabeth Warren

#35. I'll never lose my roots. I think I'm too close to my family for that. I still make my trip back to Nebraska every year, and I still love going back to Texas where I grew up, as well. I've just kind of had to mature a little bit more and get used to a little bit different style of life.

Andy Roddick

#36. My brother and I had always been very close, especially living in such a dysfunctional family environment. My earliest memories were of my parents screaming and fighting, especially during the holidays. So, we'd weathered the storms together. In

Kristen Middleton

#37. I am fortunate to have a lot of love in my life. I love my family, I love my dog, I love my close friends, and I absolutely love my incredible girlfriend.

Benjamin Stone

#38. I'm very close to my mother, but not a single other person in my family.

Alexis Stewart

#39. It's equally as important to me to be a good friend and a good sister and a good daughter. I'm very close with my family and friends.

Winona Ryder

#40. We spend so much money on these dresses that are terrible. And what do we get out of it? Nothing - a piece of chicken and a roll in the hay with her hillbilly cousin - no thank you. My family's very close; I can do that at home.

Chelsea Handler

#41. My parents split up when I was young, and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.

Ani DiFranco

#42. Do close your mouth. You look like a cow that's being artificially inseminated.

Nick Wilgus

#43. Marriage is a team effort. Grow closer to each other as you grow closer to God.

Jim George

#44. What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.

Jodi Picoult

#45. I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me.

Mohsin Hamid

#46. A group of adventurers is known as a "party," and not just because they like to celebrate their success together in the end. Your party should be as close to you as your family--assuming your family can cast spells, kill monsters, and bring you back from the edge of death.

Matt Forbeck

#47. With our close friends, family members, and lovers, we hope to create a special world, one in which we can expect to be treated fairly, with care, tenderness, and compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

#48. I was raised in a really terrific, close family, and I've never needed to escape anything or to really let myself go by dancing on tables.

Blake Lively

#49. Tara McLellan, who these men have been convicted of killing, was a colleague of mine and a very close family friend.

James Patterson

#50. Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.

Joshua Foer

#51. What they say about TV shows is true. You're really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They're over quicker. You don't form the same bonds.

James Gandolfini

#52. I had a very close family and I couldn't get away with anything.

Shirley Temple

#53. I've got a pretty close bond with everyone in my family. I've got a brother and a sister whom I'm very close to, and my parents have always been the world's best parents.

Freddie Stroma

#54. People think they have a perfect idea of who you are from a four-second Snapchat video ... and fake blogs, stories, magazine covers. In reality, that's not the case. Nobody knows who I am except family and my close friends.

Kylie Jenner

#55. I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I'm an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn't just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.

Michael Caine

#56. One person's prayer can create a close-nit family, a close-nit family can create a close-nit community. A close-nit community can create a close-nit society and a close-nit society can create a close-nit nation.

Euginia Herlihy

#57. The 'Goonies' are a close knit group. They believe in themselves, even though there are doubters throwing darts at them outside ... 'Goonies never say die.' That's pretty in line with the mentality of our team.

Robin Lopez

#58. And like most big families, they were loud and secretly thought they were funnier and a little more special than everyone else.

Jennifer Close

#59. Whether it's golf or writing, you have friends, and then you have 'friends' friends. Friends who are like family. I can count my close friends on two hands, which is good, I think. That's a lot. Some are at home in Spain, others are elsewhere, and some are in golf.

Sergio Garcia

#60. I used to date Latoya for awhile, I was a close freind of the family.

Kurtis Blow

#61. '17 Again' was one of the best times of my life. The whole cast was really close. We were like a family. When we weren't working, we'd all hang out. It was a great group of people.

Melissa Ordway

#62. When I do get free time, I spend a lot of it at home with my family and my close friends and I think that's what keeps me happy, healthy, grounded, and totally in check.

Leighton Meester

#63. PAUL: ...We're a very close family. We don't take kindly to people playing Daily Mail on our family for no good reason.

Billy London

#64. I've been very lucky. I come from a very close family.

Richard Branson

#65. Charlotte's dirty dishes haunted her dreams that night. She was running down a dark tunnel and close behind her plates, cups, bowls and crumbs made threatening noises.

Jennifer Lott

#66. But my family's really close and I was interested in what Mommy and Daddy did for a living. So when Mommy and Daddy had a script that wasn't totally age inappropriate, they would let me read it. And we would talk about it.

Zoe Kazan

#67. The closer a husband is to God, the closer he will grow to his wife.

Jim George

#68. The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Virat Kohli

#69. I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness

Glenn Close

#70. I've got two older sisters who I'm very close to. And my son's grown up with a big sense of family around him.

Lesley Manville

#71. I called all adults by their first names, and my mum was just another adult. I was the firstborn of my generation in the family, but because I was so close to my parents in age, they treated me with a kind of adult respect. They talked to me as an equal.

Nile Rodgers

#72. Love and this close-knit family structure really helped to give me the confidence. To know that you have family to go back to is a help. It doesn't always happen biologically. Sometimes God gives you family in other forms, but I was very blessed. I have a very strong biological family.

Lauryn Hill

#73. I am 54 years old and happily single. In addition to my nuclear family, I have a close circle of friends. Most of my friends are men. But my reputation is such that their female partners would never consider me a threat.

Geraldine Lee Wei Ling

#74. I love its potential. I hate its past. And I don't like what it is.' She hugs her knees close to her chest. 'The way you feel about the place you grew up in is a lot like how you feel about your family.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#75. Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand.

David W. Earle

#76. Happy birthday to evil North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. He gathered family and friends together and celebrated by executing a few close friends.

David Letterman

#77. When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective. When you're a kid, your friends, your school, your teachers, your family - that's your whole world, your whole existence. And then when I stopped going, I lost all my friends but the few that were really close to me.

Kristen Stewart

#78. I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.

Lisa Loeb

#79. I'm one of 3; I have a 16-year-old sister and an 11-year-old brother. We're all very close. We're an interesting family, and we moved a lot when I was younger. I feel like we are very tight knit because we had to sort of jump and leave places and start over again and again.

David Lambert

#80. I still feel very close to the people I wrote shows with and some of the people I toured with. I feel very close to them, like a family or like college friends who you know and who have seen you at your worst and you spend 14 hours driving a van all piled on top of each other.

Scott Adsit

#81. Bill and Hillary will spend Easter with her brothers Hugh and Tony and Roger Clinton. They have a family ritual at all holiday dinners. After they sit down, they hold hands, close their eyes, and get their stories straight.

Argus Hamilton

#82. The great thing about coming from where I come from - Liverpool and my family - is that we're very close. I have a great relationship with my siblings and their kids.

David Morrissey

#83. I have had a lot of really close friends and family who have been touched by suicide, and I would never want to make light of it.

Lauren Iungerich

#84. It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

Barbara Mandrell

#85. As my family and I have worked through the grieving process, I've said all along ... that it may very well be that that process, by the time we get through, it, closes the window on mounting a realistic campaign for president that it might close.

Joe Biden

#86. I have an amazing and supportive family. I'm fortunate to have a close relationship with everyone.

Jonathan Keltz

#87. I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.

Naomi Scott

#88. We're a very close family. Nothing changes.

Rob Kardashian

#89. I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.

Salman Rushdie

#90. I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.

Gabrielle Giffords

#91. When I have a family someday, I'll probably adopt. Adoption has always been something close to my heart. There are so many kids out there who really need a family.

Tim Tebow

#92. My family keeps me sane. I try to talk to my mum every other day. After I get off the phone, I have a renewed sense of clarity, so I guess a problem shared is a problem lost. It's important to me to keep them close.

Michelle Dockery

#93. I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.

Stephen Furst

#94. You were brought up to think love and family are about protection. Like you need to hold people close in order to care about them. But that's just living inside a bubble. It's control. I was brought up to think love is trusting people enough to let them go.

Katie Kacvinsky

#95. But family life sometimes had a vortex, like weather. It could be like a tornado in a quiet zigzag: get close enough and you might see within it a spinning eighteen-wheeler and a woman.

Lorrie Moore

#96. I have a group of close personal friends that are all my world. My family is my world. And as long as those people are happy with me, then I'm happy with myself.

John Rocker

#97. And I come from a small Vietnamese family. We're really close too, all ten of us.

Dat Phan

#98. 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.

Sela Ward

#99. I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#100. I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.

Francesca Annis