Family Isn Quotes

#1. I grew up in a somewhat religious family. My dad's family isn't religious at all, but my mom's side of the family is, so I was exposed to church a bit.

Win Butler

#2. Your family is real, but mine isn't? Real people with real feelings, but my family isn't real to you. You think. I'm a character. A story. Those women you talk about. Not real people to you. Stupid women. I'm real. I'm as real as you are. My family is real like your family.

Bryn Greenwood

#3. My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

Jodi Picoult

#4. I've owned a business for 26 years. My family isn't in politics and my supporters aren't special interest groups in Madison and Milwaukee.

Mark Neumann

#5. I'm a vegetarian, but my family isn't. If I can keep everything in my house healthy, I don't have to worry as much when I eat out.

Elaine Irwin

#6. Family isn't a matter of history. Or biology," he said softly. "It's a matter of choice.

Courtney Milan

#7. You have to understand - I grew up being told by my parents that the best way to get out of a sticky situation was to assume it didn't exist," he said. "Let the rumors fly ... if the family isn't bothered, why should anyone else be?

Jodi Picoult

#8. Family isn't blood. It's the people who love you. The people who have your back.

Cassandra Clare

#9. My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.

David Sedaris

#10. Blood is thicker than water, but family isn't just about blood. Family is about faith, and loyalty, and who you love. If you don't have those things, I don't care what the blood says. You're not family.

Seanan McGuire

#11. Ohana isn't just your blood, Tess. It's the family you choose for yourself. Family isn't just the people who made you; it's the people who love you.

Rebecca Addison

#12. Family isn't only blood.

Melissa Marr

#13. Just remember, family isn't perfect. It's just perfectly ours.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. Family isn't blood, necessarily; it's a thousand little choices we make every day. We choose to trust each other and forgive each other and go to the pasta place for dinner even though some of us would rather eat sushi.

Rebecca Podos

#15. Family isn't blood," she said bitterly, continuing to back away. "Family is who loves you, who takes care of you.

Bruce Coville

#16. You see, sweetie, family isn't just what you're born into. It's also the friends and loved ones that find you along the way.

Nichole Chase

#17. Family isn't about genetics. It's about the people who love you.

Jenny B. Jones

#18. My family isn't really Italian. We're more like Olive Garden Italian.

Mike Birbiglia

#19. My family isn't safe. Mermen from Natatoria are coming today to reclaim the house and reopen the gate. We have to leave.

Brenda Pandos

#20. I know we're all psychotic, single and completely dysfunctional and it's all done over the phone,' Tom slurred sentimentally, 'but it's a bit like a family, isn't it?

Helen Fielding

#21. My family isn't like yours," he says. "Well, I certainly hope not. We can't all be dreamers and crackpots, you know.

Lyla Payne

#22. Family isn't something that's supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They're born, they die. It's always evolving, turning into something else.

Sarah Dessen

#23. Funny how you can forget that every family isn't like yours.

Patrick Ness

#24. Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.

Jennifer Esposito

#25. I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

Salma Hayek

#26. Family isn't who you share blood with but who will bleed for you. It's the people who love you through your tragedies and stick around.

Dannika Dark

#27. Sometimes family isn't about the people you're born to, but those who care enough about you to support you . . . or pull a few favors to help right a wrong for someone you know.

Catherine Bybee

#28. I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.

Jodi Picoult

#29. I have a day job, which means my family isn't dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.

Jim C. Hines

#30. My family isn't posh; they're musicians.

Audrey Niffenegger

#31. Even if your family isn't quite there for you, find the people that support you and hang on to those people and try to let go of those that try to take you down.

Alicia Keys

#32. When my family isn't alright, I get restless. It just doesn't seem right to me.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#33. Family isn't blood - it's who has your back.

Dannika Dark

#34. She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late.

Sophie Kinsella

#35. In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.

Susan Juby

#36. Actually, before creating a family, it is necessary for a person to be already happy

Sunday Adelaja

#37. AMELIA: To my friends, and family: You all may be batsh*t crazy, but even if I got to choose, I'd still choose to be with you. Life is fragile, and tomorrow is never a sure thing, so thanks for sharing your lives with me.....

Amelia Hutchins

#38. My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.

Trey Anastasio

#39. The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.

Sanjay Dutt

#40. I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.

Jennifer Damiano

#41. I come from a big family, so I'd like to have a big family.

Keisha Castle-Hughes

#42. Love is the heartbeat of the sacred soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#43. I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.

Becky G

#44. Weakness is acceptable, forgivable, around family. But not when lives and wars hang in the balance.

Victoria Aveyard

#45. My family is Anglo-Indian, and of the four children, I'm the only one who wasn't born in India.

Glen Duncan

#46. I knew right then and there that I would become as courageous as I needed in order to keep him safe. I thought of the soldiers and bullets that I hid from in Asmara. I would stand and fight them to keep Fili safe.

Abeba Habtu

#47. They say that family is the place of safety. But sometimes this is the greatest lie; family is not sanctuary, it is not safety and succour. For some of us, it is the secret wound. Sooner or later we pay for the woundings of our ancestors.

Nayomi Munaweera

#48. Excessive drinking is not good for my health, my family or my game. There has definitely been a change, and I feel better for it.

Ernie Els

#49. After ministering each day to the hundreds of young men who had endured ghastly wounds, submitted to amputations without anesthesia, and often died without the comfort of family or friends, Whitman wrote, nothing of ordinary misfortune seems as it used to.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#50. Being real is being true to you.

David W. Earle

#51. I never expected anyone in my family to change, and especially not my father, who changed first and most profoundly: He died.

Melissa Bank

#52. Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services. Lives are lost, and girls' opportunities to thrive and contribute to their country's development shrink. These are real people.

Jenny Shipley

#53. The family is where most of our joy comes from.

Aidan Quinn

#54. 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

#55. I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.

Edward Furlong

#56. Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to worry about being alone ...

Elizabeth Gilbert

#57. Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood.

Jessica Alba

#58. I also feel fairly confident that the original Texaco Salvatore was a good family man, with perhaps a propensity for wearing his wife's panties and betting his kids' college money at the track, but otherwise a solid dude.

Rachel Cohn

#59. The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.

Meg Rosoff

#60. And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped.

Anne Lamott

#61. Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been in prison.

Hank Azaria

#62. I love and adore all of my family, except when I'm with them.

Chuck Palahniuk

#63. I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched in. I did the lettering on the stones, my brother did the carving, and my sisters put the finishing touches on them, the gold leaf and all that.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#64. My time with my family is a priority.

Nick Faldo

#65. I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God ... I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world.

Elvis Presley

#66. Yeah, but before anything, I think in 6 years somehow I've grown up to have a beautiful home, 2 beautiful stepchildren, a beautiful husband, my family is healthy and happy. I'm financially ok and I do what I love for a living. That's what I think, and I think god, how did I get so lucky.

Angelina Jolie

#67. To find love, joy and peace for the humanity, let us promise to build a peace loving and a kind family.

Debasish Mridha

#68. If you can teach a child, then her family and her future is taken care of.

Sunil Mittal

#69. I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So much of this comes also from a lack of education.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

#70. To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day ... . I think it must be how it ought to be, in a perfect world.

Daphne Sheldrick

#71. What makes a good deli is a place that, one, is generally family-owned or owned by individuals that care. Delis that are owned by large corporations tend not to have that same soul. And two, delis that make as much of their food from scratch as possible.

David Sax

#72. The kitchen is the most important place in any house. Visit your family, and that's where you'll end up. Go to a party, that's where everyone congregates.

Michelle Dockery

#73. I was very shy - I didn't speak to anyone outside of my family until the fourth grade.

Margaret Stohl

#74. One thing I know for sure is that family is not defined by blood.

Jessica Scott

#75. I do feel good doing them [family-friendly movies], but it's not going to be my way of life. I'm a comedian.

Adam Sandler

#76. A shard of glass cut my belly as I slid into the battered SUV, but I managed to keep the family jewels intact. I'd be counting every small victory tonight.

Lisa Kessler

#77. Spirit-led Jesus followers recognize that they are imperfect Christians working with other imperfect Christians to serve a perfect Christ. When we love and give to one another, then we grow as individuals and as the family of God.136

Mark Driscoll

#78. I like reading, going to the gym, hanging out with my family. That's it.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#79. Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.

Alveda King

#80. Spending more time with friends and family costs nothing. Nor does walking, cooking, meditating, making love, reading or eating dinner at the table instead of in front of the television. Simply resisting the urge to hurry is free.

Carl Honore

#81. Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

#82. Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.

Richard Schiff

#83. I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with.

Lou Holtz

#84. Trust me, I play the game for the fans, my family and myself.

David Ortiz

#85. I never met Kurt Cobain, but I felt like I got to know him in a manner probably more intimate than anyone I've known outside of my family.

Brett Morgen

#86. I come from a football family which has really helped.

Frank Lampard

#87. I grew up in a family of actors. I grew up onstage. The choice for me wasn't, 'Do I want to be an actor or not?' I always felt like that's just ingrained in you, the need to perform. The choice was, 'Do you want to do this professionally or not?'

James Badge Dale

#88. Those that love you the most never allow you to change.

Melissa Dymock

#89. Flora would have liked to ask her parents why the words 'to father' have such a different meaning from the words 'to mother'.

Claire Fuller

#90. Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart.

Ezra Taft Benson

#91. Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

Jane Howard

#92. Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake up one morning and find oneself bereft of brothers, parents, friends, all with the slice of an ax.

Lauren Willig

#93. In the 1960s, 110 countries had averages of six or more children per family.

Peter Diamandis

#94. I'm grateful for my whole family, but my dad is like Obi-Wan Kenobi, Superman, and Evel Knievel all at one time. I can think I have it all figured out, and he'll say, 'But did you look at that side of it?' He shows me just how much more there is than what appears to be.

Guy Fieri

#95. My friends and family have always been extremely supportive, but the support I've received from fans has been so overwhelming. I love hearing all of their 'Fight Song' stories; I have been so inspired by so many of them.

Rachel Platten

#96. If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.

Joe DiMaggio

#97. Several hundred years ago, the only thing that slave families had was cooking and their family meals.

George Tillman Jr.

#98. Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer

Sunday Adelaja

#99. I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.

Mavis Staples

#100. I can see getting married and having a family, because it is the next thing on the agenda. You can only do this for so long. I'm old, and my friends all have kids. And I'm single, still blow drying my hair!

David Spade