Top 100 As A Family Quotes
#1. So: this is where we are going to become parents. You walk into the building as a couple, and leave a few minutes later as a family. You walk in recollecting long romantic dinners, nights at the theater, and care-free vacations. You leave worrying about where to get diapers, milk, and Cheerios.
Scott Simon
#2. I grew up in a big family. You have to learn to get along with each other ... get things done as a family.
John Boehner
#3. Help your children to see and notice poverty and differences in privilege that seem inhumane and unfair. Do this in a way that does not increase guilt or shame for what you have as a family, but rather helps them see their responsibility for sharing with others and keeping others in mind.
Polly Young-Eisendrath
#4. Together we gazed out over corkscrew switchbacks cut through a barren, rocky landscape stretching to the horizon. It was simultaneously awesome and insane to be in this spot as a family, though, for a flicker of an instant, the lone explorer in me longed to be out there alone with just a 4x4.
Alan Paul
#5. Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories.
Frank Lampard
#6. But with two boys and a new puppy, we don't get out much. We're usually home doing stuff together as a family, like watching 'Modern Family.'
Daniel Dae Kim
#7. Regard your team as a family. Give the same attention to the bottom guy as you do the top guy. You have a responsibility to all of your players.
Pete Newell
#8. We found that our kids enjoy those simple adventures we take as a family. I'm driving, my wife's the copilot and we give one kid a choice of what they want to go do. We eat a lot of bad food and sleep in some interesting hotels.
Mark Consuelos
#9. Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.
Michael Pollan
#10. My job doesn't define my kids in any way. When we go to places, it's about them and it's about us as a family. I think they're proud of me, but I'm just Dad.
Steve Carell
#11. They were, as a family, constantly on the verge of being dangerously, enviably cute.
Laura Lippman
#12. Work together as a family, even if it may be faster and easier to do the job ourselves. Talk with our sons and daughters as we work together.
Robert D. Hales
#13. If a footballer presents himself as a family man and goes and has sex with a prostitute, should he gag her?
Nicky Campbell
#14. Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.
Carey Mulligan
#15. My sister and I would race on the weekends. It was a way for my sister, my mom and me to spend time with my dad. He worked all week and worked a lot so it was a great way for us to spend time as a family and have fun.
Danica Patrick
#16. As we all came to discover the limitations of assimilation, we grew closer as a family
Miguel Syjuco
#17. We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.
Beyonce Knowles
#18. Family prayer is a fourth vital link in the chain of spiritual strength - a strength we are trying to build to protect us from a world gone mad. Practicing prayer as a family, not just a flippant blessing before a meal, can give us the security we need.
Billy Graham
#19. When I was a young kid, the best stuff on television was always the BBC period dramas - it was what we sat down as a family to watch and what people talked about and looked forward to.
Neil Jackson
#20. We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.
Stone Gossard
#21. I have had viewers that come up to me, and they're, like, You know, we used to watch ('Breaking Bad') as a family, and once the melted body came falling through the ceiling, my mom was just, like, 'I can't watch this show anymore. This is just way too disturbing for me.' So it's not for everybody.
Aaron Paul
#22. My whole family is obsessed by brandy butter. And bread sauce. Then, of course, there will be a lot of wind in the afternoon! We have never disguised the wind side of our lives as a family; we think it's hilarious.
Miranda Hart
#23. There's nothing quite so irritating to an author as a family member's easy confidence that, of course, the book will come.
Carolyn Hart
#24. My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.
Rima Fakih
#25. I am more relaxed at home in Scotland, and my children are of an age where I want us, as a family, to spend more time up here.
Rory Bremner
#26. I do feel free, I have patched things up with my ex-husband to the degree of this real friendship. We spend a lot of time together as a family with our son, no way will we be man and wife again.
Beccy Cole
#27. We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family.
Haylie Duff
#28. My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'
Candace Cameron Bure
#29. If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and less to the words of anger
Wes Fesler
#30. When you live in a small town like Iowa Falls, there's not a lot to do, so we would, as a family, watch a ton of films.
Patrick Whitesell
#31. There's something comforting in that. To go down as a family. No one left behind.
Gayle Forman
#32. One thing Pete had learned over the years as a participant in so many disparate cultures, and as a family historian, is that almost nothing that can be imagined is impossible, and that, in fact, most of those things, in one form or another, have occurred. Scary really.
Peter Heller
#33. I think its good to worship as a family but its also important to worship as an individual.
T.D. Jakes
#34. After my father died, we were pretty much wiped out financially as a family, so I decided to give finance a try.
Leon Black
#35. We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.
Trisha Yearwood
#36. We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them.
Shaun White
#37. I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.
Steven Spielberg
#38. We try to surround ourselves with love and light. You have to be there for each other. As a family, we are trying to make sure everything Dad worked so hard for carries on into the future.
Bindi Irwin
#39. I have faith in us as a family, and our friends. I think we will survive because we don't wish to harm anyone. If you ever need something to believe in, believe that to stand and fight for the people you love is the most honorable thing you can do with your life.
Jessica Fortunato
#40. We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I'm trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.
Emeril Lagasse
#41. Think of what this planet has done to us. Dune took my Duke and my son and shattered all our hopes and dreams as a family. It swallows people.
Brian Herbert
#42. Blame is a thief. It robs us blind while it wastes our time, time we could be spending as a family, making memories, supporting each other.
Penny Reid
#43. One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
Ralph Fiennes
#44. So instead of watching TV, we read every night together as a family.
Arne Duncan
#45. I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can. No matter how busy we are as a family, we always make that time to have that 'family together' day because we want to. You can't let work and life get in the way of spending time together.
Tahj Mowry
#46. Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.
Ang Lee
#47. When I was a kid growing up in the States in the late '70s and early '80s, as soon as 'Dallas' came on on a Friday night on CBS at 9 P.M., we stopped everything from that moment on as a family.
John Barrowman
#48. I grew up with parents who were English professors at Wichita State University, and we were more liberal-minded as a family than most of the people I hung out with in Wichita. During summers, we went off to Telluride, Colorado, where I've returned every summer since I was born.
Antonya Nelson
#49. My family and I cook at home almost every day together. The kitchen is the central and most important room in the house; it's a great way for us to connect. We love going to the farmer's market on Sundays as a family and choosing the ingredients together.
Jose Andres
#50. I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always came together as a family for that holiday, playing capture the flag and touch football and laughing a lot.
Mark Shriver
#51. The best thing about it is that she [Sophia Loren] is the most normal person, and I have the utmost admiration and love for her. I know that she is an icon and an absolute legend, but as a family member, the most beautiful thing is that she is really, really normal.
Sasha Alexander
#52. We always make a hot breakfast for the kids: oatmeal, pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs, the whole deal. We like to have that time in the morning together as a family.
Patti Scialfa
#53. My father managed to change his entire life after I wrote a novel about his brutal regime as a family man. It took resoluteness and courage for my father to change, and I need to acknowledge that.
Pat Conroy
#54. It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.
Dee Dee Myers
#55. We would finish dinner, and then we'd all sit around as a family and watch 'Roseanne.' That was a big one.
Tyler Ritter
#56. When you give as a family, not only are you sharing the happiness that giving brings you by watching it translate into positive change, but you are also transmitting your giving values to your children by engaging them in the giving process itself.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#57. I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.
Julian Fellowes
#58. If we had loads of money as a family, things would be different and they'd come to visit more and I'd get to spend more time here. But I'm laying down roots in America so when I'm there, just being at home, it's harder to break away from that.
Rick Allen
#59. We have our core values as a family, and we've kept them, that's our number one priority is making sure our kids know that so they also will have the same values, no matter what circumstances come your way.
Missy Robertson
#60. One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today.
Paul Prudhomme
#61. Growing up, there wasn't much emphasis on being nice or naughty. As a family, there wasn't much discipline. It was more relaxed at home, which I'm grateful for.
Isla Fisher
#62. My favorite room in the house is my kitchen. It's definitely the heart and soul of our home. It's where we gather in the morning as a family to start the day, and it's where we wind down at night over supper.
Kimberly Schlapman
#63. It's not always possible to sit down and eat at home in this day and age of fast-paced living, but if you are going to eat out, do so as a family and support all the great local places in your areas. I'll still eat at the same diner I did as a kid with my parents.
Michael Symon
#64. Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference.
Ezra Taft Benson
#65. Your success as a family ... our success as a nation ... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
Barbara Bush
#67. Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.
Heidi Klum
#68. Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family.
Jack Kemp
#69. Antique things have an appreciation and worth. Something can be old, but it can be timeless; therefore, it becomes an antique. If this antique is preserved and deemed precious, it could be passed down as a family heirloom.
CeeLo Green
#70. What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo, in the same place.' And we'll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo.
Barack Obama
#71. But as a family physician, I'd had the opportunity to come in contact with people of all ages, and through the years I've noticed a curious parallel: children and the elderly both have the same kind of faith.
Reggie Anderson
#72. Meditation, practiced individually and as a family, helps with a different type of peace. It is not a calm absent of noise and confusion but a calm that persists in the very center of the noise and the chaos. Ten minutes daily can transform your life.
Ann Brasco
#73. I've always loved playing tennis. When I was 12, my parents decided that I should try to do it seriously. My father started to travel with me, and as a family, we tried to make it work.
Dominika Cibulkova
#74. There's a lot of great things to see here in the United States. Those times spent together with maps and old cups from the diner you went to, those are really important as a family.
Mark Consuelos
#75. You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don't see that in Italy or Spain. It's not because they can't afford to buy them, it's because that's not what eating together as a family is about.
Emeril Lagasse
#76. As Marshall Rosenberg expressed, we have learned as a family that what we desire above all things as human beings is to be the cause of joy in another.
Erin Taylor
#77. When a certain community is destroyed, in reality it destroys a part of all of us. So there should be a clear recognition that the entire humanity is just one family. Any conflict within humanity should be considered as a family conflict. We must find a solution within this atmosphere.
Dalai Lama
#78. For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer we played football outside.
Claudia Schiffer
#79. As a family comedian, it is so wonderful seeing everyone from kids through to grandparents being entertained by you.
Bobby Davro
#80. It's great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family - my brother, my sister and myself. We have a great relationship.
Penelope Cruz
#81. Anyway, our family went into complete crisis mode. I have two older brothers, and we rallied as a family.
Kathy Mattea
#82. We went to L.A. as a family, with a sort of vision that we were going to 'make it,' whatever that meant.
Summer Phoenix
#83. My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the boxcars. One year we stole a case of butterscotch pudding that was for export to Israel. It took us years to get through.
Chuck Palahniuk
#84. I really didn't know what to think about the veil. Deep down I was very religious but as a family we were very modern and avant-garde. I was born with religion. At the age of six I was already sure I was the last prophet. This was few years before the revolution.
Marjane Satrapi
#85. How do humans treat one another under the stress of a changing world? Do we fight and compete? Or, do we cooperate and work together as a family in this world to get through these changes? This is the question we are asking ourselves today.
Gregg Braden
#86. We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment.
Boyd K. Packer
#87. We got more out of this as a family than we were able to give to the people.
Connie Sellecca
#88. I can remember dancing around living room with my two sisters to the music of Paganini and Mozart. I can still remember my dad combing the newspaper, circling all the free concerts in town, and on the weekends, we would go as a family.
Lindsey Stirling
#89. I think it's been a little difficult at times for the audience, because they've told me they see me as a family member. So to see your little sister sing about sex ... I think they are pretty used to it now.
Janet Jackson
#90. I guess you don't have to be related by blood to love someone as a family member." I stared at him, my eyes blazing. "Sometimes they worm their way into your heart and they become a part of you. And when someone becomes a part of you, they automatically become your family.
J.S. Cooper
#91. We always have dinner together as a family - even when our schedules are totally hectic. I inherited that from my mom, who would come home from her ad agency job to eat with us before going back to work.
Kim Raver
#92. Love is the garland without thread that bound us together as a family, as a society, as a nation, and for the humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#93. For there is nothing so perfect as a thing with no ending and no beginning, such as a family of souls intertwined.
Genevieve Dewey
#94. The point I'm trying to make is that we as a family have bent over backward not to take advantage of Wal-Mart, not to press our ownership position unfairly, and everybody in the company knows it. Alice
Sam Walton
#95. We need to place God at the center of our family ... As a family, we need to walk with God daily.
Billy Graham
#96. We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention.
John Hawley
#97. Her life was no more than a ghostly pageant of exhausted endurance, no more real than a television drama. Death, who now stood by her side, was as familiar to her as a family member, missing for a long time but now returned.
Han Kang
#98. Hear Jesus as a family and serve Him. Care about people and love people.
Louie Giglio
#99. When I get home from a heavy work day, I make sure I get outside with the kids. I don't think there's any better cure than being active as a family outside.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
#100. Where I come from, family's defined as those who don't screw you over a paycheck. Blood makes no difference. If you can trust them with your life and know that they'll be there come whatever hell rains down, then they're your family.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
