Family Money Quotes

#1. Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Margaret Atwood

#2. When women gain control over spending, less family money is devoted to instant gratification and more for education and starting small businesses.

Sheryl WuDunn

#3. 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

#4. Road trip?"
"I'm going to dig up some dead relatives," she went on, "and ask them where the family money is.

Cinda Williams Chima

#5. There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

Terry Pratchett

#6. Financial security is crucial for your family, and I have a large family. Money does matter when you don't have it. When you need it, you realise the value of it. In that sense, money will always have value.

Katrina Kaif

#7. Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.

Stephanie Coontz

#8. Happiness in a family really revolves around how much money I have in my disposal.

Vann Chow

#9. Enjoy the time you have with your friends & family. That doesn't mean spend money you don't have on them. It means enjoy your time with them.

Robert Kiyosaki

#10. Everybody wants to make as much money as possible. Take care of your family. It's not about the money; it's about status. I want to be ranked amongst all the players. I don't want to just have all this money. I want to be that guy.

Lance Stephenson

#11. 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

#12. I came from a family in Texas who simply never spoke about money.

Jim Parsons

#13. What we want is to destroy our false, inorganic connections, especially those related to money, and re-establish the living organic connections, with the cosmos, the sun and earth, with mankind and nation and family. Start with the sun, and the rest will slowly, slowly happen.

D.H. Lawrence

#14. It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

Vanilla Ice

#15. Money is necessary
both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.

Coretta Scott King

#16. When they learned that a family in the slum was making money, they visited every other day to extort some.

Katherine Boo

#17. My family wasn't rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, 'Err on the side of caution.'

Robert Kiyosaki

#18. I think those who invest in mutual funds want someone else to do the thinking for them. But the fact that they can move the money around the family of mutual funds just through a phone call lets them feel that they can play tycoons.

Ron Chernow

#19. You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to survive that you didn't have the time to be a good parent. Obviously, that's not it. Because you and I, we're both ... wealthy in love.

Maggie Stiefvater

#20. No more money, no more fancy dress
This other Kingdom seems by far the best until its other jaw reveals incest & loose obedience to a vegetable law
I will not go
Prefer a Feast of Friends
To the Giant family

Jim Morrison

#21. If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.

Tupac Shakur

#22. Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.

Anthony Horowitz

#23. I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you.

Karisma Kapoor

#24. A gold cage is still a cage.
-King David I
Oh, go cry in a bag of money.
-Queen Christina

MaryJanice Davidson

#25. 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

#26. I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.

Tom Felton

#27. Didn't come from a particularly political family. My parents were regular voters. My parents didn't make enough money to contribute to campaigns, and they didn't really knock on doors for candidates when I was growing up.

Josh Earnest

#28. There is more to life than living to earn money.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.

Gary Cole

#30. Investors don't care about your dreams and goals. They love that you have them. They love that you are motivated by them. Investors care about how they are going to get their money back and then some. Family cares about your dreams. Investors care about money.

Mark Cuban

#31. A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.

Anne Northup

#32. ...there was so much more to life than just money. There were family and friends, there was good, satisfying work, and knowing you had a place on this earth where you were loved and there was nothing to prove.

Natalie Baszile

#33. My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.

Elizabeth Warren

#34. So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.

Jim Harrison

#35. I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

Anthony Jeselnik

#36. Never loan money to friends or family that you are not able to write off entirely.

Emily Yoffe

#37. Money, credit scores, material things don't matter. Life & death, your family & friends, once they're gone it's irreversible. Don't forget.

Heather Dorff

#38. I had a really hard time growing up; we were a large family, and we didn't have much money at home.

Luis Suarez

#39. I wasn't brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set and money and go to parties. No one in my family lived like that. And I never wanted to live like that. I was brought up to believe in work. I always wanted a career. Always.

Lauren Bacall

#40. They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?

Casey Stengel

#41. Be fair in all your dealings, may it be in your family or in your business. At the end of it all, what matters is not how much money you make but how honest you are.

Andrew Gotianun

#42. I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote 'In Contempt' was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.

Christopher Darden

#43. I was kind of ashamed of my bourgeois family as a teenager, I guess - I had dreadlocks, shopped in thrift stores and pretended I had no money. At that time, I would have spat on a girl who was buying Yves Saint Laurent.

Lou Doillon

#44. My family lived in Thousand Oaks. In 2002, when I was 17, I begged my parents to let me move out. I had money, a real job, and wanted to get my own place.

Kaley Cuoco

#45. I think when somebody goes to the movies and they spend their money and they take the girl out, the family, they want to have a good time. You don't always want to be hit over the head with history or how bad society is.

Ice Cube

#46. If I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.

Beatrice Webb

#47. He would have enough money ... for a family that would fill his house with beautiful music and the silence of good books.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#48. Many family planning clinics and - and programs that service women have refused now to take women's - United State's money because they feel that it would be unethical, and it could injure their clients even more, their patients even more. That has to be changed.

Eleanor Smeal

#49. Kid like you, got money, got a family, you'll be out in a few days.

Ned Vizzini

#50. I didn't take the typical path and go to college after high school. Instead, I saved up money from teaching dance classes and moved to L.A. But my family was so supportive - I never felt pressure from them. It's crucial to find a support system, even if it's not your family.

Dianna Agron

#51. Enron's president, Ken Lay, passed away last week. So, I guess even God lost money on that Enron deal. I believe the official cause of death was listed as "karma." The family asked in lieu of flowers, please send some elderly retiree's entire life savings.

Jay Leno

#52. I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.

Lindsay Davenport

#53. Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.

Barack Obama

#54. Before he loved you, I suffered alongside him ... I was his son before he even met you ... Don't we need to be taken care of, too? "With all that money, the chicken coop [of relatives] gets all mixed up and the family gets warped," Jessica says.

Hector Tobar

#55. It's easy to let your family suffer for your work. Many of us do this because we see our jobs as a means of maintaining our families. We have thoughts such as 'I need to make more money so that my kids can go to college debt-free.'

Travis Bradberry

#56. Constant thoughts of money, possession, and control are a personal prison. Thoughts of God, family, and happiness are freedom.

Ron Baratono

#57. Money or health? Career or family? Freedom or depression? All popular questions of nowadays derive from the only one: to love or not to love?

Mykyta Isagulov

#58. A very smart woman once asked me, 'Do you think money is the answer to everything?' I have a family issue and I'm going home

Cindy Woodsmall

#59. The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?

Yulia Tymoshenko

#60. Even if a man has everything - money, power, the key to eternal life - he still is nothing if he is without a family to love him and for him to love.

Latrivia S. Nelson

#61. month - the money gives the women at least a small degree of discretion in spending and the prestige that comes from contributing to the family budget.

Geraldine Brooks

#62. In the family pattern, men support boys and women support girls, and because women have far fewer financial resources, there is less money to invest in girls.

Ann Cotton

#63. To me, wealth is the peace of mind you have, your family, your friends, your colleagues. Everything else is just money, and it really is funny how people pay so much attention to that.

Ricardo Salinas Pliego

#64. If you live for money, no amount will ever satisfy you.

Richie Norton

#65. Granted, not all uneducated women are prostitutes, and, not all prostitutes are uneducated. However, where building a family is employment, an uneducated woman's womb is her diploma.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#66. When you're growing up in a family without a lot of money and four boys, it can't always be, 'Let's go see a specialist, see if you're okay.' If you got hurt, you just walked it off.

Ryan Reynolds

#67. My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others.

Kevin Bacon

#68. Everything is organized. If something is broken, I fix it. If something goes wrong, it's my own fault. If I have it, I send money to the family, and they can do with it what they want, and I won't depend on them, and they won't depend on me.

Barack Obama

#69. If I don't need the money, I don't work. I'm going to spend time with my family and friends, and I'm going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.

James Spader

#70. Ever since I've been blessed with success, I've struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I've had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, 'Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?' Then I feel like I can help.

Tyler Perry

#71. We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#72. I think the legacy we leave is our family. I don't think it's money. I don't think it's - I'm not saying that charity isn't a great thing. I just think that it's my family. Even now I look and I think, God, I'm lucky if I lost it all.

Michael Buble

#73. The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

Samuel Butler

#74. I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.

Laura Bell Bundy

#75. My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.

Jane Goodall

#76. My family were really hard-working, blue-collar people, and I didn't know the idea or concept of working and having fun. I thought you just worked and made money to support your family.

Debra Monk

#77. I learned that money's not happiness. The more famous I am and the more money I make, the closer I stay to my family and friends that I've known since junior high school. True happiness to me is the connection with fellow human beings I've known for a long time.

Dat Phan

#78. Babe-Ruth raised her family with everything but money

Orzie Henderson Jr.

#79. All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love.

Steve Harvey

#80. We know what happens when a woman earns money. She is far more likely than a man to spend her earnings on the health and education of her children and to invest in improving her family's standard of living.

Leila Janah

#81. A lot of people think I'm under a lot of pressure with my family and friends spending all that money to follow me around

Bonnie Blair

#82. I think this had to do with the vintage of his family's money: the older the gold, the less shiny it tends to be.

Alena Graedon

#83. To Annawadians, a difficult-to-raze house increased the odds that a family's tenure on airport land would be acknowledged by the relocation authorities. And so they put their money into what would be destroyed.

Katherine Boo

#84. Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, and we don't have it. So it's all about getting to know each other intimately quickly. You are with family members that you like or don't like, but you can't leave them because you're stuck with them.

Lee Daniels

#85. When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.

Corey Haim

#86. Money will never buy happiness, but managing your money well can provide the peace of mind that will allow you to focus your family on what matters most.

Devin D. Thorpe

#87. I never have issues in handling the fame. I was in a boarding school, as I am from a middle-class family. We didn't have a lot of money, so we all learned to respect money and understood its real value.

Suresh Raina

#88. We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

Ira Glass

#89. While no real money came down, my family gave me a good education and a marvelous example of how people should behave, and in the end that was more valuable than money. Being surrounded by the right values from the beginning is an immense treasure. Warrenhad that. It even has a financial advantage.

Charlie Munger

#90. Life must not be lived only to make money.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#91. They may be smarter than you. They may have more money than you. They may come from a different city or a better family. But they can NEVER outwork you. And they can NEVER outprepare you. And they just can't outpractice you. And that's why you'll win.

Robin Sharma

#92. Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for 'doing the best' for his children?

Eva Figes

#93. My purpose was what my father's purpose was - to make a living and to have a family. I was going to do the right thing. My dream to me was to have money to support it and to live in the kind of house I liked.

Jack Kirby

#94. intent was honest, he really did want to help and he did have a lot of knowledge about antiques since he'd been running his family pawn shop for almost a decade. She knew they could trust him and she filed the information away for later in case they got desperate for money.

Leighann Dobbs

#95. God has received us into His family, He is the possessor of everything

Sunday Adelaja

#96. When Uncle W. G. held out his hand to take my money, I dropped the dead mouse in his hand.

Earl B. Russell

#97. My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made about 6 d a yard in the Thirties, which was good money back then.

Wilbur Smith

#98. My father used to always say to me that, you know, if a guy goes out to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, they'll give him 10 years, but a guy can do white-collar crime and steal the money of thousands and he'll get probation and a slap on the wrist.

Jesse Ventura

#99. I'll tell you something: I'll always be broke. It's a tradition in the family. My grandfather was a bankrupt. My father was a pauper. My uncle was a miser: he went crazy because he couldn't find any money to mise over.

James Hadley Chase

#100. Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.

Lapo Elkann