Family Should Be There Quotes

#1. Your family should be there. Your family should always be there. What does it say about you if they aren't?

Chris Lynch

#2. 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

#3. I could stand on my head and flick the bean right there at the dinner table and my mom would be all, "Honey, Christmas is family time, we should be together" and make me finish in front of everyone.

Christopher Moore

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

Alveda King

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

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Jessica Scott

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

Margaret Stohl

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Sunil Mittal

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

Debasish Mridha

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

Laurence Housman

#20. Everyone who owns a home recognizes the need for fire insurance. We hope and pray that there will never be a fire. Nevertheless, we pay for insurance to cover such a catastrophe, should it occur. We ought to do the same with reference to family welfare.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#21. There should ne'er be a time
When a duty or dime
Doth outshine
The importance of family.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#22. There is no such thing as unlawful censorship in the home. Movies, magazines, television, videos, the Internet, and other media are there as guests and should only be welcomed when they are appropriate for family enjoyment.

M. Russell Ballard

#23. A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

Mel Gibson

#24. In the Bible there are three human institutions that stand apart from all others - the family, the church, and the state. There's nothing in the Bible about how schools should be run, even though they are crucial to a flourishing society.

Timothy Keller

#25. There is a convention that the principal heir should be kept away from real danger. As the 'spare' rather than the heir, Harry is expected by the royal family to take the ultimate military risks.

Robert Lacey

#26. I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.

Dave Reichert

#27. Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family. What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation. I do not see how proving my family, brotherly love for Quebec should be strengthened by defying Canada.

Nicolas Sarkozy

#28. Any home where there is love constitutes a family and all families should have the same legal rights, including the right to marry and have or adopt children. Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else?

Elizabeth Taylor

#29. When a certain community is destroyed, in reality it destroys a part of all of us. So there should be a clear recognition that the entire humanity is just one family. Any conflict within humanity should be considered as a family conflict. We must find a solution within this atmosphere.

Dalai Lama

#30. Let me get one thing straight; I'm not an authority on sex, I'm more of a fan. I think sex is nice; no family should be without it. Of course, there are other things that are just as important as sex, like uh ... like uh ... like ... uh ... well, I'll think of it later.

George Burns

#31. One thing you should know about me is that I am not a hugger. For the record, in New York, that is a perfectly acceptable way to be. If you hug someone there they are either a person in your immediate family whom you have not seen in months, or they are gravely ill.

Mindy Kaling

#32. Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#33. What is family anyway but people who are always supposed to be there for you? Family should be rock solid, the earth beneath your feet, wind beneath your wings, and all that.

Arlaina Tibensky

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

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

Sunday Adelaja

#38. 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

#39. 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

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

Sanjay Dutt

#41. 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

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

Keisha Castle-Hughes

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#44. 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

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

Victoria Aveyard

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

Glen Duncan

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

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

Nick Faldo

#51. Being real is being true to you.

David W. Earle

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

Melissa Bank

#53. 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

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

Aidan Quinn

#55. 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

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

Edward Furlong

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. 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

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

Chuck Palahniuk

#64. 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