Top 100 Family Who Quotes
#1. If we are truly fortunate, we have employers who did not abandon us, family who stood by us, and perhaps someone who helped us find our way back, who never forget that beneath all the appalling behavior there was a human being.
Elizabeth Vargas
#2. I go to the bathroom. All my life I have been an orphan and an only child. Now I come from a big noisy family who go ballroom dancing and live forever.
Jeanette Winterson
#3. I was stolen from my family by Navajo raiders when I was fourteen, and taken in by a Navajo family who had lost a daughter of their own." Josefina
Kathleen Ernst
#4. The family who naps together stays together.
Vonnie Davis
#5. I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?
Mary Pipher
#6. I'll show Dunky he's not the only one in the family who can rush foolishly into danger!
Christopher Healy
#7. My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.
Maya Angelou
#8. What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude.
Isabel Wilkerson
#9. I've been very lucky to have a family who has welcomed me and not been hung up on anything racial, almost overlooking the fact that there was a racial difference. But I can honestly say I do feel like I missed out on some lessons of what the African-American experience is like growing up.
Jordan Peele
#10. There just is not one person in my family who is not funny.
Michael Keaton
#11. A family who smokes together, chokes together.
James Moody
#12. I am too good at making you see what you want to see. It has been hard my whole life to make that picture seem so perfect. The perfect daughter in the perfect family who was after all not so perfect. There was again only the illusion of what outsiders wanted to see.
Abigail George
#13. I'd like to visit my friend and his family who live in Australia. That trip is long overdue.
Kenneth Choi
#14. Get in my way again, boy, and you're going to learn that Velkan isn't the only one in this family who has fangs. Retta to Viktor
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#15. I can't imagine having cosmetic surgery because I have my values and little family who makes me feel incredibly accepted but you never know.
Izabella Scorupco
#16. I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.
Bryan Cranston
#17. and if you run off down the long streets in the way you are doing - then for this evening, you have broken utterly from your family, who fade away into insubstantiality, while you yourself, absolutely solid, black and clear-cut, slapping your thighs, rise and assume your true form.
Franz Kafka
#18. My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.
Ronnie James Dio
#19. I have no riches in life, but only family who loves me.
Alon Calinao Dy
#20. The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time with my baby. Oh yeah, I bet your other family is really thrilled.
Jackie Collins
#21. I'm not really the one in my family who knows everything that's going on, because I don't really pay attention.
Mackenzie Rosman
#22. Surround yourself with friends and family who want to practice empathy and kindness. New mothers and parents are the ones who can benefit enormously from this support - we all can.
Iben Dissing Sandahl
#23. Having lots of members of my family who were in ministry in one form or another, I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that at quite an early age, I was very, very conscious personally of the love of God.
N. T. Wright
#24. Turning against the church I also had to turn against a lot of the teachings of people in my family who were very much of the church and caught in it, and every time I turned to find where resides the good in the church, all I saw was the demonic, the Lucifer of the journey.
Harry Belafonte
#25. You mean when we discovered the secret lair under the hangar where I'd been kept comatose for eight years of my life, then turned into a cyborg by some mystery surgeon before being given away to a family who didn't really want me? Yeah, Thorne, those were the good old days.
Marissa Meyer
#26. I am deeply saddened to hear that the man who murdered my brother, Michael Ensley, has been charged with murder again. I grieve for every family who has been victimized by this heinous individual. My prayers and love go out to the family of Demetra Doyle Heard during this trying time.
Niecy Nash
#27. I'm a good girl, and I have a very good Jewish family who brought me up very well.
Jess Glynne
#28. I made mistakes, but I'm luckier than most. I've got a successful business, lots of fans who think a lot of me and a family who loves me.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#29. I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, constantly, that I was born with a really good memory.
Robbie Robertson
#30. You know, I'm the only one in this family who has no problems, ... And you know why? Because any time I'm feeling blue, or puzzled, what I do, I just invite a few people to come visit me in the bathroom, and - well, we iron things out together, that's all.
J.D. Salinger
#31. Still ... I would have hugged my mother if we were the kind of family who hugged. If touching her weren't impossible. If her subnightie waft was not so utterly, fatally repulsive. That's how much I loved her.
Jerry Stahl
#32. I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.
Andrew Shue
#33. I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.
Cyndi Lauper
#34. Before i was jumped in i remember Lucky telling us how being in a gang was like having a second family ... a family who would be there when your own family wasn't. They would offer protection and security. It sounded perfect to a kid who'd lost his father.
Simone Elkeles
#35. I'm sorry,' I whispered. I didn't know whether I was sympathizing with her broken heart or apologizing for a family who had had theirs broken, too.
Chelsey Philpot
#36. I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. And there's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point.
Anne Hathaway
#37. There are others whose lives are blessed when a missionary serves, such as the members of his family who support him, pray for him, and try to live worthy of him.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#38. Prince Charles is the only member of the Royal Family who ever left Cinderella for the Ugly Duckling.
Des Hanafin
#39. I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.
Brigitte Bardot
#40. I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.
Paloma Faith
#41. In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.
Padma Lakshmi
#42. We got a lot of letters of people who didn't like them, like my own family who thought they were unnecessary and unpleasant and taking advantage of women in a sad situation - I never saw that. And I think that sometimes, you have to take a risk.
Vera Wang
#43. Millions of Indonesians who live with secrets in their family who have a sense of that kind of secret that their parents never told them, want to be told about what happened so they can know where they come from.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#44. I've very fortunate to come from a great family who are extremely supportive of me and I'll always have them to fall back on.
Liam Hemsworth
#45. I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.
Emma Thompson
#46. I think being a guest star on an ongoing TV show can be a nightmare, and I've done it a lot. You're walking into this family who's very comfortable where they are, and you have to jump on the train and be artificially comfortable. That's a very hard thing to do.
Janel Moloney
#47. Golf is not my priority. I would hope people see me as a Christian man who loved his family, who loved being in the heat of competition and sometimes succeeded at it; who understood that golf was his job and that he was very lucky to play it for a living.
Zach Johnson
#48. Then you never really feel comfortable around most people. Especially your family, who probably never seemed to understand you. But as you grow up you find others like yourself, people who support you, embrace your weirdness, and love for who you are - and they become your new family." - Tara
Elizabeth Briggs
#49. There is a family of us who have this yearning for a kind of excellence that we can manifest every day of our lives, a family who wants to believe we're not pawns, we're not victims on this planet, that knows we have the power within us here and now to change the world we see around us!
Richard Bach
#50. I have been very fortunate to be supported by many people in my career. I also appreciate my personal friends, business friends, and my family who have been patient and understanding of my long working hours.
Shuji Nakamura
#51. We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.
Zinedine Zidane
#52. It's unnatural to fight somebody who has nothing against you and never did anything to you or to your family, who never stole anything from you. And now you've got to go and try to dismantle this guy.
Mike Tyson
#53. Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male ... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.
Jacques Pepin
#54. This is the story of a family who didn't fit in. A little girl who was a bit geeky and liked maths more than makeup. And a boy who liked makeup and didn't fit into any tribes.
Jojo Moyes
#55. Cat Stevens is also the only other member of the family who enjoys eating the meats that Dad brings home from the Strip, although sometimes he expresses his enjoyment by barfing.
Jesse Andrews
#56. You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act.
Johnny Depp
#57. Thankfully, I have never experienced a miscarriage, but I have friends and family who have, and I've talked to them about their feelings.
Neve McIntosh
#58. The only thing I fear is the harmful effects on my family, who I won't be able to help any more. That's what keeps me up at night.
Edward Snowden
#59. I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.
Richard Attenborough
#61. I have had a lot of really close friends and family who have been touched by suicide, and I would never want to make light of it.
Lauren Iungerich
#62. A member of my family, who shall remain nameless, refers to all newborns as 'blobs'.
Cordelia Fine
#63. There wasn't anyone in my family who was involved in the theatre. I saw a few amateur plays when I was growing up, but I can't think of anything that happened or anybody in particular who inspired me; it all came from within.
Garry Hynes
#64. Although my dad was a doctor, we weren't necessarily a super-artsy family. We were just a classic, traditional family who got to take a lot of piano lessons and became a bunch of musicians.
Lisa Loeb
#65. This was how to help a family who has just lost their child. Wash the clothes, make soup. Don't ask them what they need, bring them what they need. Keep them warm. Listen to them rant, and cry, and tell their story over and over.
Ann Hood
#66. I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to live in Brooklyn with my mother's family, who were all Dodger fans. So he was surrounded by Dodger fans. He was a Yankee fan. So his revenge was to make me a Yankee fan.
Rudy Giuliani
#67. I'm the only one in my family who is deaf, and there are still conversations that go around me that I miss out on. And I ask what's going on, and I have to ask to be included. But I'm not going to be sad about it. I don't live in sad isolation. It's just a situation I'm used to.
Marlee Matlin
#68. And, as always, I thank my family who are an amazing network of support.
Laisha Rosnau
#69. Almost any situation is bearable if you have a home to go back to and a family who will stand by you. With
George Orwell
#70. Which has left me with a healthy respect and fondness for higher education that those of my friends and family who attended universities were cured of long ago.
Neil Gaiman
#71. I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
Rupert Murdoch
#72. It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death.
Misty Upham
#73. Well, you ought to stick with it, even after you mess up-but sticking with it is a lot easier if you have a family who believes in you.
Kathryn Littlewood
#74. Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.
Yasmine Al Masri
#75. I have parents and family who will never allow me not to be grounded. If I thought for a second that I could possibly lift off the ground, I have a thousand people who will grab my ankles.
Zendaya
#76. 'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.
Matt Groening
#77. It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go abroad to study, in sturdy defiance of the male elders of the family, who protested and decided that I should be married off instead.
Dalia Grybauskaite
#78. If you have friends and family who love you unconditionally - you truly have everything!
Lindsey Rietzsch
#79. I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way artistic or a potential mentor to a budding writer, and yet this is what I became.
Graham Swift
#80. Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be. Every year I make a note not to feel left behind by my friends and family who have managed to change far more than I.
Wendy Wasserstein
#81. Ah, no, ah, no. There, senor, you would be wrong. Knowing that after the first year the rent is liable not to be paid, we bury the poorest two feet down. It is less work, you understand? of course, we must judge by the family who owns a body.
Ray Bradbury
#82. My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.
Jose Manuel Barroso
#83. I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
Jacki Weaver
#84. If you have friends or family who are not practicing, give them your company and not your judgment. They need your patience and your love. Allah is sufficient for judgment and He subhanahu wa ta'ala is a perfect Judge. We are not.
Nouman Ali Khan
#85. When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?
Patricia Ireland
#86. I know a lot of friends and family who were Joe Montana fans, where it didn't matter how well Steve Young did. They weren't going to cheer for him because he wasn't Joe Montana.
Aaron Rodgers
#87. These people who were supposed to be my family, who had conspired to look enough like me to serve as a critique of my appearance ...
Ben Marcus
#88. I'm going to sit here with your weird fucking family who don't know me and think I'm some kind of punk rocker turned heroine addict while you dance the night away with Noah mother fucking Scott. And I'm going to do that because I love you.
C.M. Stunich
#89. At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too.
Reba McEntire
#90. Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.
Germaine Greer
#91. I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why the media wouldn't leave me in peace.
Grete Waitz
#92. The spelling of 'Wrenne' was a very common form of the family name, and it seems very likely that John Wrenne belonged to this family, who were much connected with S. George's, Windsor. OLD FAMILY MOTTO. William Wren was in Henry VIII.'s time the head of the family;
Lucy Phillimore
#93. I know how much respect I have for people of all different faiths, but especially for my family, who are the most important people in my life, and who are still practicing, and deeply religious.
Stephen Karam
#94. When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account.
Samuel Alito
#95. Sometimes I wish I didn't have somebody in my family who's in the business.
Scott Caan
#96. And there's one more thing to be aware of " Cam said with a wintry softness that disguised all hint of feeling. "If you succeed in marrying her we're not losing a sister. You're gaining an entire family - who will protect her at any cost.
Lisa Kleypas
#97. The person who sat the kid down on the breadboard to cut off thier diaper with a huge knife was the most elderly person in the family, who was blind in one eye..and had the shakes ... of course the kids uncouncious, He's lost two pints of blood!
Eoin Colfer
#98. The pigment must be mixed with the tears of spinsters of good family, who must live long lives of impeccable virtue and die without ever having had a day of true happiness.
Susanna Clarke
#99. He was a figurehead - an aging CEO of his own family who only showed up for the board meetings and wondered how so much got done without him.
Tad Williams
#100. I grew up with family who liked to travel and sightsee, so I have this pressure inside me: If I'm in a city and I have enough free time, I'd better go to a museum. I try to see parks, go outside. Or else try to feel really normal like go to Target or a drugstore, or go see a movie.
Lisa Loeb
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