Family Member Quotes

#1. I feel that sometimes, holding yourself as black, saying that is your sole identity, can sometimes stand in your way of being a member of the humanity of man, being a member of the family of the divine.

Giancarlo Esposito

#2. Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.

Betty Rollin

#3. Dave and Kathy went shopping to buy all the stuff that their baby would need. It was like a great big celebration going on to welcome the new member of the family. Time

Heather Graham

#4. Be warned, then: the collected volumes of this series will contain frozen mountains, foetid swamps, hostile foreigners, hostile fellow countrymen, the occasional hostile family member, bad decisions, misadventures in orienteering, diseases of an unromantic sort, and a plenitude of mud.

Marie Brennan

#5. A full relationship is what God offers to those who come to God by Jesus. Imagine this! An open invitation to become a member of the royal family and a joint-heir with the Son of God.

R.T. Kendall

#6. Nowadays, there's a lot more that comes before music, that I need to take care of before I can sit down and play, and be a contributing member of a band or society. I have to take care of myself and my recovery, and then my family, and then my music.

Patty Schemel

#7. In community we are called to care for each member of the community. We can. Choose our friends but we do not choose our brothers and sisters' they are given to us, whether in family or in community." Jean

Jean Vanier

#8. Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture, color and creed. Deep down there is no difference.

Dalai Lama

#9. Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, 'How long has Mom been drinking like this?' My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, 'Here, kitty, kitty.'

David Letterman

#10. ... part of the grief was that each member of the family was mourning his own mortality.

Alan Lightman

#11. My grandmother, Angela, was the Fox family matriarch. She was magnetic but also wicked. She had this huge life force and was great fun, but she would play each member of the family off against each other, which could make for extremely dramatic Christmases.

Emilia Fox

#12. When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue.

Prince Andrew

#13. Nut shrugged. Set had always been Set, for better or worse. But he is still part of our family. It is difficult to lose any member of your family ... is it not?

Rick Riordan

#14. 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

#15. My experiences always influence my writing, but usually only on an emotional level. I have experienced death of a family member and it's easy to dredge up those feelings and get them on the page.

Kim Smith

#16. The family is constantly changing, as each member changes. Some changes we recognize as developments, and the pleasure they bringusually makes us more adaptable. Some changes threaten, or disappoint other members, who may try to resist the change, or punish someone for changing.

Terri E Apter

#17. I think 'Tattoo's a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a break-up song, but, for me, it's about somebody who comes into your life and really touches you - be they a friend, a family member or someone you're in a relationship with.

Jordin Sparks

#18. Many times it takes just one member of a family to initiate the action to bring a family back together again.

Billy Graham

#19. Every member of my family knows that running for office is a personal decision.

Joseph P. Kennedy III

#20. Family. If one member wasn't being a pain in the ass, another one would be guaranteed to fill the slot

Jeaniene Frost

#21. It was completely unprofessional to speak about your boss like that to someone who wasn't a trusted friend or family member you leaned on for the requisite boss-venting.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#22. Comedy is the only profession where love from a stranger is better than love from a family member. You need to perform for strangers to see if you're really funny. If they laugh and cheer, it's the greatest thing in the world.

Jay Leno

#23. The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.

Matt Cohler

#24. The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family.

Martin Jacques

#25. My father served 26 years in the Air Force as a pilot and a pioneer in our missile programs. I learned early about the sacrifices a family makes when a member is repeatedly deployed, and also the fulfillment that comes from serving our country. My brother, my son and I all became Marines.

Jim Webb

#26. The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

M. Russell Ballard

#27. New Rule: The Jacksons must trot out at least one family member who doesn't make us all ask, What went on in that house?

Bill Maher

#28. Losing a family member, and her dying knowing she didn't have to die, that ... is a scar that will last forever for the people remaining, and even with good actions and good words, that scar will never disappear. Ever.

Kim Du-han

#29. I stole a significant amount of money from a family member. I knew I was going to get caught, but I was so desperate I didn't care. It was a cry for help.

Cory Monteith

#30. I had some trepidation about working with someone else, especially a family member. You don't want work to affect your personal relationship.

Jesse Kellerman

#31. It is truly a pure balance when one soul-family member can contribute to another's growth and create a beautiful life together.

James Van Praagh

#32. A psychiatrist once asked me to draw a picture of my family. This is when I was a member of a family of four. I drew the three other people in the family first, bodies and heads. And then, last, I began to draw myself - but gave up.

Jamaica Kincaid

#33. A Christian has tremendous responsibilities to his own family. He or she has a responsibility of loving each member of the family.

Billy Graham

#34. Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.

Charles Dickens

#35. God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family.

Margaret Clarkson

#36. The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

Calvin Trillin

#37. Dorothea is a Grey," he pointed out. "Any member of her family would pause on the gallows to exchange witty banter with the hangman before graciously putting the noose about his neck with his own hands.

Diana Gabaldon

#38. Women and girls are disproportionately affected by landmines. They have different needs when it comes to education about risks. And they may face greater challenges when a family member is killed or injured.

Ban Ki-moon

#39. If you're a member of my family, whether immediate or extended, and you want to see my show, don't.

Chelsea Handler

#40. As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.

Andrew Gross

#41. Losing a family member is extremely difficult for anyone to take. But the normal reaction is to want to get back to your work as soon as you can.

Charlie Adam

#42. Dog's owners don't call me. It's their neighbors or family members. We call them the whistleblowers, but it's more like the pack. It's making sure that one pack member gets in line. Before it was the owners, now it's the community.

Cesar Millan

#43. The mere idea of asking a family member if they intentionally stopped sending me an annual bonus makes me feel like breaking out in hives.

Mallory Ortberg

#44. I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family ...

Frances Wright

#45. If you allow fame to get the better of you, you become nuisance, a public nuisance, a nuisance as a friend, as a member of the family, a nuisance to yourself.

Dilip Kumar

#46. It was rare to find a member of the family who did not liquidate a relative or two, Cleopatra VII included.

Stacy Schiff

#47. In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is always a member of the ruling al-Sabah family. That must end.

Elliott Abrams

#48. I would not change places with the wealthiest and most influential person in the world. I would rather be a child of the King, a joint-heir with Christ, a member of the Royal Family of heaven!

Billy Graham

#49. As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.

Mark Sanchez

#50. Any of you who have members of your family in the lifestyle, we have a member of our family that is [lesbian]. This is not funny. It's a very sad life. It's part of Satan, I think, to say that this is gay.

Michele Bachmann

#51. The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

Stephen King

#52. Part of the Disney success is our ability to create a believable world of dreams that appeals to all age groups. The kind of entertainment we create is meant to appeal to every member of the family.

Walt Disney

#53. Some people are born into wonderful families. Others have to find or create them. Being a member of a family is a priceless membership that we pay nothing for but love.

Jim Stovall

#54. Well, I guess on the bright side of all of this, I can celebrate a new family member.

Richelle Mead

#55. Some parts of your vision are meant to be shared, in confidence, only with a trusted mentor, friend, or family member. And some aspects of your vision honestly don't need to go beyond your prayer time with God.

Steve Harvey

#56. If you have any setback in your life, like not being in the England squad was for me - any setback, like losing a family member - everyone handles it in different ways. When I first wasn't included I was numb. I'd been the main England striker for years and years. It was really disappointing.

Michael Owen

#57. If the widow of a man who died without leaving issue, raises up to him a son by a member of the family , she shall deliver to that ,son the whole property which belonged to the ,deceased .

Guru Nanak

#58. 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

#59. [Phoebe Broome] 'Well,' she said at last. 'You've now met my father. At his worst.'
[Lord Vladimir] 'Being myself widely considered my family's most difficult member, I would not presume to comment.'
'That is ... gentlemanly of you.

Alison Sinclair

#60. Toaster: A gift that every member of the family appreciates. Automatically burns toast.

Dave Barry

#61. I've usually found every Catholic family has one lapsed member, and it's often the nicest.

Evelyn Waugh

#62. Whether someone believes something or not, believer or non-believer, as long as you are a member of the human family, you need warm human feeling, warmhearted feeling.

Dalai Lama

#63. I would expect the family would continue to play a critical role in leading Fidelity. However, the company does not necessarily have to be run day-to-day by a family member. It will be run by the person who is determined to have the right skills and chemistry.

Edward Johnson, III

#64. I know a member of one of New York's first families (first as you drive up Tenth Avenue)

Groucho Marx

#65. The bottom line is that there are very few families who have a family member with a catastrophic medical condition such as RDEB that can survive financially without help.

Silvia Corradin

#66. We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

Akio Morita

#67. To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

Pope John Paul II

#68. I think it's very important to have the stewardship of a company by a family member.

Marie-Chantal Claire

#69. Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

William Griffith Wilson

#70. I get inspired by what I go through. Experiencing all these different things we all go through like heartache, falling in love, watching a family member or a friend going through [something], and trying to write about it from a different perspective.

Colbie Caillat

#71. We are usually running around trying to get ready for the day, and our minds are often plagued with internal chatter about what we have to do, where we have to go, we have to see, what we forgot to do, the fact that we are running late, a recent argument with our significant other or family member.

Hal Elrod

#72. The two brothers who sought to get their only family back, to feel her warmth, one lost his last family member and the other could never feel warmth again.
The one who wanted her baby back lost chance of having one again,
And the one who had a vision to see his country change became blind.

Hiromu Arakawa

#73. I don't know, if I had the secret recipe that I actually could give everybody, I think it has to do very much with believing in yourself and giving time. Giving time to each member of the family.

Antonio Banderas

#74. When revising, consider whether you have written anything that will hurt or offend a member of your immediate family. If the answer is no, go back and add something.

Lynn Coady

#75. The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another's pain.

Pope John Paul II

#76. The people with thriving careers and healthy personal relationships get the same amount of time each week as the burned-out professional who can't remember their last meaningful conversation with a family member.

Joe Jordan

#77. Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is. No other member of my family has had it. But I would be in favour of abortion if there was a high risk.

Stephen Hawking

#78. The little girl knew if she bit any member of her family, they would get rabies too, and she died without ever having been petted. I cried so hard Mrs. Underwood had to take me to the school nurse.

Fannie Flagg

#79. Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

Pamela Ribon

#80. If you grow up where a snow mountain lifts its proud crown on the home horizon, in some strange way it becomes a member of the family.

Margaret Craven

#81. Yes," I say. "Three of these flying birds."
I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight - toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind.

Veronica Roth

#82. We are very excited about welcoming a new member of the family, a daughter!

Michael Weatherly

#83. As a church member, I am responsible for encouraging and leading my entire family to worship together in the church.

Thom S. Rainer

#84. My massage was marvellous. I feel really relaxed. And my masseur, Harold :You can't have a masseur called Harold. It's like having a member of the Royal Family called Ena.

Victoria Wood

#85. I am thrilled to be a member of the Kobalt family. I've never felt so taken care of on every level. As a songwriter, publisher and friend ... there is no better home than Kobalt!

Desmond Child

#86. We've all gone through some kind of betrayal, whether it's with a boyfriend or a friend or a family member. That's why this is so relatable to everybody because we all know what it feels like to feel that betrayal.

Cameron Diaz

#87. I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.

Natalie Martinez

#88. My family was actually homeless for several years when I was a kid. It's a bit unusual for a member of Congress.

Kyrsten Sinema

#89. To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

Dennis Banks

#90. This girl. In love with the boy she can't have. Grieving the death of her father, only to find out she's about to grieve the death of the only adult left in her life? This girl who's being told she can't keep the only family member she has left?

Colleen Hoover

#91. My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred because all the suitcases fell off the luggage rack onto him when he was in his teens, and so forth. Death was an acquired characteristic.

Renata Adler

#92. When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.

Ross Macdonald

#93. 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

#94. Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that.

Kathryn Stockett

#95. I think, in real life, when we're facing death - that is, when we come out on the other side of it, whether it's death of a friend or a family member - you come out on the other side of the mourning cherishing your life that much more.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#96. We all have a friend or family member who can't bear the sight of a mess. Use her obsessive compulsion to your advantage! Whisper in her ear: "I'm always impressed by how neat your house is. Can you do me a favor and help tidy this place up as the night goes on?"

Clinton Kelly

#97. Jefferson had his own privy just steps away from his bed alcove, one of three in the house proper.12 He used pieces of scrap paper for hygiene purposes.13 (Examples were collected from his privy by a family member on the day of Jefferson's death and now survive in the Library of Congress.)14 He

Jon Meacham

#98. Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#99. As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian's efforts to reach all Americans.

Xavier Becerra

#100. When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general notion and detached from the sanity of a cause, isolated and inexplicable in the light of ignorance, then and only then may it be a source of enchantment.

Samuel Beckett