Top 100 Family Isn't 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
#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
#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. No child should be raised in a system. A system isn't a parent. Even the system knows this, which is why the Children and Family Services Division puts so much effort into finding permanent homes for the kids who are never going to be reunited with their birth parents.
Rhea Perlman
#35. there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.
Mitch Albom
#36. The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
Robert Frost
#37. My favorite time is now, like tonight, under a full moon. When a thousand crystals are sparkling at us. It's almost magical, isn't it?
Dominique Eastwick
#38. I'm well aware that there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is that it isn't valued.
Paula Hawkins
#39. Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
Emma Thompson
#40. But it isn't true," Orville responded emphatically, "to say we had no special advantages . . . the greatest thing in our favor was growing up in a family where there was always much encouragement to intellectual curiosity.
David McCullough
#41. Some surveyors live for the work, putting in weeks or months at a time in remote locations. With a young family and hobbies that I'm passionate about, that isn't the path I've chosen. Like in many careers, you need to make your own decisions and follow your own path.
Mark Mason
#42. Whether or not something's fair isn't the right question for us. The question is, how much is the case worth? You might not like that, but this family didn't come to our firm so we could hold their hands. They came to get money for their suffering." "Mrs.
Victor Methos
#43. Estate planning is an important and everlasting gift you can give your family. And setting up a smooth inheritance isn't as hard as you might think.
Suze Orman
#44. My mom always talks about how hard it was to grow up in a political family. It's always split up, and just - I want to have fun in life. No, politics isn't on the list.
Patrick Schwarzenegger
#45. Photography is there to construct the idea of us as a great family and we go on vacations and take these pictures and then we look at them later and we say, 'Isn't this a great family?' So photography is instrumental in creating family not only as a memento, a souvenir, but also a kind of mythology.
Larry Sultan
#46. I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.
Simone Signoret
#47. Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.
Ari Marcopoulos
#48. It's a strange life, isn't it? ... A Rom with no tribe. No matter how hard you look, you can never find a home. Because to us, home is not a building or a tent or a vardo ... home is a family.
Lisa Kleypas
#49. Is saying yes to this project, activity, or commitment going to better me or my family? Do I really want to do this? A friend once said to me, "If it isn't a heck yes, then it's a no.
Jessica N. Turner
#50. A Third's okay for a fuck, but not for a family. This isn't goddamned Big Love, Florida Fag Edition.
Tymber Dalton
#51. Because isn't that what the holidays are all about - letting your family make you wish you were an orphan?
Shelly Laurenston
#52. I think it's really interesting to play a woman who can articulate that she isn't ready to have a family and isn't even sure if she wants a family. I have a lot of friends like that. But obviously, that's not me.
Reese Witherspoon
#53. But America isn't a country of family values; Mexico is a country of family values. This is a country of people who leave home.
Richard Rodriguez
#54. Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together ... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.
Keira Knightley
#55. Love isn't magic. Just like my family, just like my place in the universe, it's something that I can't keep, can't make last.
I would rather lose Ry before I ever have him.
Kiersten White
#56. But even if every house looked identical-if all the furnishings were the same- it still wouldn't feel like yours.
That's because home isn't where you are. It's who you're with.
Jodi Picoult
#57. So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents.
Steven Pinker
#58. You learn to read in kindergarten or first grade, and suddenly there's this other world that isn't your family or your school or your friends. It's something else.
Lynne Tillman
#59. We live in a world of entertainment in full color with a lot of fast action, a world in which many children grow up thinking that if it isn't fun, it is boring and not worthwhile. Even in family activities we need to strike a balance between play and work.
Joe J. Christensen
#60. No one ever said, "This isn't the way normal people live." Again, I think it was the sense of family unity, strengthened by the Averys, that kept me from being too concerned about the quality of our life in Boston.
Ben Carson
#61. Pre-season isn't just about conditioning but also getting used to each other as a team and a group of men. You spend more time with these people than you do your own family. Pre-season is the time we get used to each other and work out how people work. It can be a lot of fun. Hard but fun.
Colin Kazim-Richards
#62. The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it.
Wesley Morris
#63. We all say in our own lives that money isn't everything. Love matters, friendships matter. My relationship with my kids matters. It shouldn't be a giant leap to take that thought and introduce it into political dialogue
David Cameron
#64. Loving isn't liking and it takes liking to live together.
Susan Collins
#65. 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
#66. Your father ... isn't good with emotions." "Yeah. Figured that out a while ago." Like, when I was four and cried because our family cat died and he offered to have it stuffed as a means to make me feel better. It didn't.
Lindy Zart
#67. My mum's family are from Blaenau Ffestiniog, the slate town. My grandfather was Elis Humphreys Roberts, so that's quite Welsh isn't it?
Simon Fowler
#68. Some people have family crests, lions, tigers, unicorns, elephants - a whole menagerie - and if my family had a crest, you know what would be on it? A blintze. I mean it. All the good things in my life are measured in blintzes because by us it's not a party if there isn't a blintze ...
Gertrude Berg
#69. What I miss most about Mexico isn't the food or the customs; it's my family and the way we'd all sit around chatting together.
Javier Hernandez
#70. Thanksgiving isn't the only thing that has changed. This makes it reassuring somehow to go through the same ritual with the people you're connected to. I guess the truth is, it all boils down to family. Right?
Diane Keaton
#72. 'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
Idina Menzel
#73. Happiness isn't found in some finite checklist of goals that we can diligently complete and then coast. It's how we live our lives in the process. That's why the four pillars of happiness are faith, family, community and meaningful work. Those are priorities we have to keep investing in.
Arthur C. Brooks
#74. It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.
Liz Phair
#75. If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?
Jamie Oliver
#76. He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.
Jamie Ford
#77. Life and death aren't as different from each other as I thought they were. This isn't like walking into a new country. This is like walking into a new room in the same house. This is like sharing a hallway and the same row of framed family pictures, but there's a glass wall between.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#78. All the family money is for philanthropy, except for living expenses for my mother. She is 94 and isn't a big spender.
Ronnie Chan
#79. 1266What matters to the children's well-being isn't so much the level of the family's wealth as whether it is controlled by the mother or the father.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#80. Travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.
Peg Bracken
#81. What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
Laetitia Casta
#83. This is for the kids who know that the worst kind of fear isn't the thing that makes you scream, but the one that steals your voice and keeps you silent.
Abby Norman
#84. I hate when I'm not done with my cup but my mom decides to put it in the dishwasher anyway and the cup isn't dishwasher safe. I keep telling my mom that my origami coffee mugs are hand wash ONLY. Handshakes are also hand wash only.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz
Karen Quan
#85. My family's story isn't special. What's special is the America that makes our story possible. Ours is a nation like no other, a place where great journeys can be made in a single generation. No matter who you are or where you come from, the path is always forward.
Julian Castro
#86. Life isn't all me. I have a family to support. I can't rob them of a good life simply because I want to play something.
George Benson
#87. This isn't about redemption ... This is about family.
David Estes
#88. I believe a family just isn't complete without skeletons. My dearest momma clean bit off my daddy's nose right around the time they divorced.
Cole Alpaugh
#89. There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the blood, the family. And how they live, the money of it.
Grace Paley
#90. The free market has never worked in agriculture and it never will. The economics of a family farm are very different from a firm's ... the demand for food isn't elastic; people don't eat more just because food is cheap. Even if I go out of business this land will keep producing corn.
Michael Pollan
#91. It was a wealthy family, and they heard me talk about movies, and they told me I should go into movies. That's the benefit of hanging out with rich people; they have no sense of what is or isn't possible.
Michael Patrick Jann
#92. I've decided that there isn't much difference in the way we treat our siblings and the way we treat our special someones. But at the end of it all we know our siblings have to forgive us ... or they'll never be able to borrow our car.
Emma Daley
#93. Actually, Jake said, isn't life what we make it, wherever we are, whenever we may be - wherever it is that we are?
Heather Graham
#94. It isn't the size of the family, it's the interactions of the members inside.
Michele Borba
#95. Winning isn't everything," Eisenhower said faintly. "Sometimes, just knowing your family's safe and healthy and alive is even better.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#96. A person can do a lot of reading and research as I have done. I went to Spain and spent a whole summer there with my family, immersing myself in the culture. But all that isn't really necessary to experience the music.
Maya Beiser
#97. Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.
Pierce Brown
#98. Yes, I was determined to have a happy Christmas' 'Did you?' 'I think so. I don't remember it much, and that's always a good sign, isn't it?
Evelyn Waugh
#99. Real value isn't in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!
T.D. Jakes
#100. Jacinda, will you listen to me?"
"Not if your words have anything to do with 'this isn't right' or 'Jacinda, this can't happen between us.
Dominique Eastwick
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