Top 100 Family Big Quotes
#1. 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
#3. I come from a big, loud family, and I'm the quieter one. Performing is something I have to switch on. I've heard I get real sassy onstage, which I'm not in real life! It's fun to be that person for an hour a night.
Lorde
#4. I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.
Olivier Martinez
#5. Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
Emma Thompson
#6. It means I don't have to charter that big jet for the family.
Shaquille O'Neal
#7. I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.
Sloane Crosley
#8. Big Stupid leapt up. Little Duane had a gun. Big Stupid punched Little Duane so hard his whole family tree died back to the Middle Ages.
Victor Gischler
#9. You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
Erma Bombeck
#10. I'm a big fan of doing 'Triple D.' But I don't want to do it forever, don't get me wrong! Travel away from my family, are you crazy? But do you know what it does for these mom-and-pop restaurant joints? It changes their lives forever. I mean, their businesses will never be the same.
Guy Fieri
#11. I think I've learned that if you have a house, you end up living in the kitchen, so if you have one big kitchen and then enough bedrooms for your family, that's about all you need for a home.
Richard Branson
#12. Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#13. Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and the short stories and the poems you never had time to write because of that." And I looked at my children and I said, "These are my poems, these are my stories."
Olga Masters
#14. I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
Billy Sherwood
#15. The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner; big family gatherings; and being able to go to the grocery store - if I can get those things in, I'm doing good.
Kate Winslet
#16. I was raised on 'Get Smart' and 'All in the Family' and 'M.A.S.H.,' and certainly when 'Cheers' came along, that was a big one.
Eric McCormack
#17. 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
#18. They might not love Big Brother, but they knew he was part of the family now.
Tim Weiner
#19. Marriage was a goal. A family, for me as a young girl, was my image of what I hoped for. It was part of the big picture.
Demi Moore
#20. You won't know how much you'll miss someone until they're gone. Go give them a big hug while you have the chance.
Kevin Focke
#21. I had a big family - two older sisters and a younger brother. My family was like moving around a lot so I lived in a lot of small towns. My father was very restless.
Jessica Lange
#22. It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.
Cesar Romero
#23. I never dreamt of being in the movies. I was from a very average, I would say, a rather poor family, so my big treat was to work hard all week - I mowed lawns and babysat and washed dishes and washed cars - to go to the movies.
Debbie Reynolds
#24. I liked all the children in my class. Back then, I think we all just tacitly assumed that we were equal. That we were all in the same boat. We didn't really think about our different genders, races or classes. We just co-existed, like one big family.
Joss Sheldon
#25. I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.
Tony Shalhoub
#26. The child is right," she announced firmly.
Arrietty's eyes grew big. "Oh, no-" she began. It shocked her to be right. Parents were right, not children. Children could say anything, Arrietty knew, and enjoy saying it-knowing always they were safe and wrong.
Mary Norton
#27. I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francaise. Since I was four I went every week to the Comedie Francaise. My aunt and grandmother were there, but my grandfather was a big star.
Emmanuelle Seigner
#28. When liberals say 'family', they mean 'Big Brother in Washington.' When we say 'family,' we mean 'honor thy father and mother.'
Ronald Reagan
#30. A big part of my decision is not made about whether I'm able to coach in the NHL or if I'm ready to step up and take that challenge. Basically, it's about my family, it's about my children, and this is where my decision is going to have to be made.
Patrick Roy
#31. I come from a very small rural village in northern Germany, and being an actor never even seemed like a possibility. I thought you would have to live in a big city, or be discovered somewhere, or be born into an artistic family, which I certainly wasn't.
Diane Kruger
#33. I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life.
Darren Aronofsky
#34. My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up, that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.
Brenda Song
#35. My family's big on denial. And if we denied something long enough, we thought it'd go away. I know that's not how it works, but we're in denial about that, too.
Lisa Shearin
#36. Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands ... I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.
Chuck Berry
#37. Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people
Norman Vincent Peale
#39. In Puerto Rico, we have a lot of traditions. We eat a very typical thing that's called 'pasteles' - it's almost like a tamale made of bananas, and we make it all together. Like, all the women of the family unite, and it's a very big deal, a very big thing.
Joyce Giraud
#40. I'm not a hugely social person. Obviously there's a big part of the job that requires that as actors, but it's not the most comfortable for me. I'm a homebody. I don't go out. My life is work and family. There's not a lot in between. That's how I like it.
Deborah Mailman
#41. I always thought that if I wanted to do a family, I wanted to do it big. I wanted there to be chaos in the house.
Brad Pitt
#42. I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.
Ryan Gosling
#43. My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, 'meh, let's talk about something else.'
Mindy Kaling
#44. True success - financial, personal, and professional - lies above all in loving your family, working hard, and living your passion. In telling your story. In authenticity, hustle, and patience. In caring fiercely about the big and the small stuff. In valuing legacy over currency.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#45. I'm wishing that I had a regular family where the mom cooks lasagna and throws bagged salad into a big dented wooden bowl.
Lauren Layne
#46. From the big mountains in the north to the valleys in the south, all through my childhood and teenage years, my family would always holiday in Wales.
Luke Evans
#47. As Native Americans, we believe the Rainbow is a sign from the Spirit in all things. It is a sign of the union of all people, like one big family. The unity of all humanity, many tribes and peoples, is essential.
Thomas Banyacya
#48. I want every movie to be like a big family and a great adventure.
Virginia Madsen
#49. An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#50. You know what his power was? Calling lightning. Try handling that when you live in water. He accidentally killed his entire family one night during a big storm.
Terah Edun
#51. I don't need a big house to raise a family, I only need you."
Alex smiled, kissing her on the forehead. "Well, why didn't you tell me that to start with? We could have saved a lot of money," he teased.
Loni Flowers
#52. I grew up in a big ol' Latin family, so that's all the music we used to play - salsa music. We'd always dance and have fun. You know how families get down, man! We just had fun with it.
Ryan Guzman
#53. After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little ... like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to.
Sarah Dessen
#54. I was neglected by my family because I had disappointed them - I'd run away from being forced into an arranged marriage, which was a big blow to them.
Nelson Mandela
#55. I mean, that's my family. Everything's a freaking secret, because everything's a big deal. Everything is like coming out" -Simon
Becky Albertalli
#56. I am a big fan of smelly cheeses but the rest of the family don't seem to be particularly keen on them.
Johnny Vegas
#57. Author challenges parents to bridge the gap with maturing, more independent kids with what he calls "Knock and Pray". He says parents should invite their kids to unscheduled times to "pray ... big".
Jay Payleitner
#58. Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a flip about logic. You just really miss holding your big brother's hand.
Jodi Picoult
#59. I have to say it's been tough to leave the Ferrari family, which has been a big part of my career.
Michael Schumacher
#60. I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father, and trying to be a good father, I already have my work cut out for me.
David Charvet
#61. When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.
Paris Hilton
#62. I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a pack and we're a big family for a finite period of time. We roll into someplace, cause a bunch of damage, and then roll out.
Francis Lawrence
#63. We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.
Denise Mina
#64. I come from a family of Russian immigrant Jews who were all big storytellers, who would get together, and one would try to top the others' stories, and stories would get bigger and bigger. And the lying aspect, the exaggeration, would get large.
Philip Schultz
#65. A football team is really a big family. There's a give and take ... but a few are working for their name only. They go the whole week trying to figure out who said something, what they said and where it happened instead of showing that they're big men.
Otto Rehhagel
#66. In the right circumstances, I'm a big fan of eating alone. Often, on a Sunday evening, I go to a yoga class whose charm is largely that it gives me an alibi to avoid cooking family supper for once. I return to have boiled eggs and soldiers in silence with a book. Bliss.
Bee Wilson
#67. I have a big family and had to move them all from the coast of Oregon to New York three times for the workshops and for the actual production itself, which had about a four month development rehearsal schedule.
Gregory Harrison
#68. My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.
Dave Mustaine
#69. If there's one thing that differentiates me from the rest of my family it's the rock element. I hung out with friends who like punk rock a lot. Not getting a big record deal, and having a hard time for years, it means you have to prove yourself and scratch your way up from nothing.
Martha Wainwright
#70. I came from a big family ... a big family of Southerners.
Blake Lively
#71. Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
Zakk Wylde
#72. There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
Anwar Sadat
#73. The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.
Larry Page
#74. The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
Maggie Stiefvater
#75. I am the doctor of our family, and I am a big fan of homeopathy.
Cindy Crawford
#76. When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.
Maya Angelou
#77. Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.
Holly Black
#78. I think I'm going to give my baby her first food on Thanksgiving, make her some organic sweet potato. I'm very excited! It's going to be a big day and my husband is in charge of the turkey - he's the chef of the family!
Lily Aldridge
#79. I always tell people, 'Coming from such a big Mexican family when there's a new baby every three weeks, you have to do something to get someone's attention.'
Becky G
#80. I always thought I desperately wanted a husband and a big family, because I didn't have it growing up.
Drew Barrymore
#81. I have a big family, and I spend a lot of time with them.
Mitt Romney
#82. I think most people know the concept of difficult family situations. So I try to just ground a very big concept in something we can all relate to on some level.
Mark Millar
#83. My priorities are leaning more towards family, and I credit my southern upbringing to that. I was raised in the church as well, and God plays a big role in my upbringing and my life.
Omari Hardwick
#84. I'm glad to be part of that brand and be a part of something that Hugh Hefner did. And it's a sisterhood - all the girls are sisters. You go there and it's a big old family. Once you're a Playmate you're a Playmate for life.
Alyssa Arce
#85. I look to my family for my support. I'm fortunate to have a big family.
Chris O'Donnell
#86. Music has always been in my family, but it was mainly keyboards. I learned to play classical piano, but when I first heard the amazing bass guitar of James Jamerson, who played on all the big Motown hits of the '60s and '70s, I knew bass guitar was my instrument.
Suzi Quatro
#87. In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed hands, the exclamation mark is the big attention-deficit brother who gets overexcited and breaks things and laughs too loudly.
Lynne Truss
#88. Music was always a big part of my family. Only a few of us had the talent - or the courage - to walk out on a stage.
Patty Loveless
#89. Mitt Romney and his family have a big two-day weekend plan. They're going to hike to the top of his money.
David Letterman
#90. I have always been a HUGE Star Wars fan since I was like 5 years old. Most of us in the writers room at Family Guy were big nerds growing up and could recite almost any scene from Star Wars.
Alex Borstein
#91. The human race is one big dysfunctional family.
Robert Barron
#92. I'm a big fan of fatherhood, and I'm a big fan of my family.
Jaime Camil
#93. I come from a big family of storytellers and, growing up, I liked hearing about the years before I was born.
Molly Antopol
#94. I'm a big believer in to-do lists. I think of five things in the shower. I set goals and get my work done, but I have to plan for fun things, too. I'm always thinking about what will make my family happier. So I set up playdates and trips.
Heidi Klum
#95. They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldn't be.
Charlotte Church
#96. Yeah. You've seen The Sun today; I've got myself a big house, settled down. Apart from the odd night out with the New Fathers' Club, I'm a family man now.
Damon Albarn
#97. We all have, in my family, what we call the 'Vorderman bottom' - a sticky out, bigger-than-normal, signature, of the rear variety. It's been a family joke all our lives - even my lovely brother has one. I know the lines to all the good singalong big bum songs.
Carol Vorderman
#98. In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general.
Benjamin Booker
#99. Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga.
William Zinsser
#100. I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it. The only thing I know about it is what I picked up from my aunts and parents.
Robert Barry
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