
Top 100 Family You Quotes
#1. Because they're your family - you don't expect that shit from family. But the fact is that, first and foremost, they're people, and people can be dicks.
Suzanne Wright
#2. One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside a family you have neither.
Tove Jansson
#4. Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that's it.
Mindy Kaling
#5. If the family you came from sucked, make up a new one. Look at all the people there are to choose from. If the family you are in hurts, get on the bus. Like now.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#6. We're all hunters in my family, you know. Deer, ducks ... damsels.
Nenia Campbell
#7. I think that in any family - black, white, Chinese, Spanish, whatever - family is family. You know that there's dysfunction, and that there's this cousin who doesn't like this auntie. But, at the end of the day, like I say, love brings everybody together.
Lauren London
#8. I'll make you a promise, Bodee. Long as you're with my family, you won't run out of Kool-Aid." "And I promise you, I'll stop whoever's hurting you ... even if it's you.
Courtney C. Stevens
#9. When you marry into a Mormon family you marry tribes and nations.
Wallace Stegner
#10. When its family, you tolerate what you'd kill others for.
Dolly Parton
#11. It just means that when you screw up," Remi added, "you don't lose your place in the family. You might get a reaming, might be punished, but you'll always have a home where you're loved and where you feel safe.
Nalini Singh
#12. An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home.
Jill Lepore
#13. If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.
Douglas Coupland
#14. We've got to let the people know that there is a necessity, it's not even an option, it's a necessity to have a chiropractor. As much as it is a necessity to have a dentist, if you have a dentist for the family, you should have your chiropractor for the family.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#15. It's because when God adopts you into His family, you belong to Him. He stamps His name on you. A name that comes with His protection. And His birthright, which is eternity and the power to live with joy on this earth.
Susan May Warren
#16. At some point, the family you create is more important than the one you were born into.
Shilpi Somaya Gowda
#17. Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.
Yolanda Adams
#18. My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.
Carla Bruni
#19. The Malfoys. The family you can always rely on to make the world a murkier place.
J.K. Rowling
#20. Don't you have a girlfriend or family you'd rather be with? (Geary)
Only Solin, and honestly, he's not this soft. Even if he was, it'd be gross. (Arik)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#21. I like girls who want to get up and dance and don't mind singing in front of my family - you know, silly stuff. Some girls won't eat in front of boys or won't go bowling. They just want to go out and look pretty. I don't really get that. I want someone who is up for having a good time.
Olly Murs
#22. In the absence of sisters, we find sisters. In the absence of mothers, we find mothers. In the absence of family, you are my family.'
Luanne Rice
#23. Everything else falls away except for the family you're born into, choose, or make; the circle of love you'll die to protect and keep near you. The only thing that keeps us rooted in the past is our refusal to embrace the present.
Karen Marie Moning
#24. It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself.
Jaclyn Smith
#25. it is the family you make, not the one you are born into, that matters.
Sarah J. Maas
#26. When you are in the family ... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.
Jacques Chirac
#27. Curran shrugged and pulled me back to him. 'You don't pick the family you're born into. You pick the one you make. I already chose my mate and glued her ass to the chair to make sure she knew it.
Ilona Andrews
#28. And yeah, I know most people would think it weird that two guy friends touch as much as we do, but when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too. This is how we work. I hope you get to choose your family and I hope it means as much to you as mine does to me.
Patrick Ness
#29. A man's got to take care of his family. You live in my house, you sleep your behind on my bedclothes, you put my food in your belly because you are my son; you are my flesh and blood, not because I like you. It is my duty to take care of you. I owe a responsibility to you.
James Earl Jones
#30. Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.
Mitch Albom
#31. Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's what this chapter is about: how to leave some kind of record of your life and of the family you were born into.
William Zinsser
#32. When you play a character that exists or existed, there's a stronger responsibility that you have. You owe that person and then you owe the family, you owe history, you owe the victims, the victims' families.
Johnny Depp
#33. In my family, you can rot to hell on the inside as long as you're flawless on the outside, which is really sick, but also hard to unlearn.
Laura Wiess
#34. Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour.
Claire Denis
#35. Whether you believe it or want it, Vera, you are my family. You are my universe. And I love you more than anything.
Karina Halle
#36. Bands fall out. But at the end of the day, they're like family. You get back together because you have to, because you're stronger together than you are apart.
Antony John
#37. That's the thing about becoming a family: you gotta melt. You have to keep melting into each other until you become something entirely new. The only constant family rule is that everyone has to keep showing up.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#39. If you're doing television, you get to be a character for a long time, and the cast around you becomes like family. You get attached to playing that one character, and it's hard leaving them behind.
Sammi Hanratty
#40. It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
Gertrude Stein
#41. When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.
Glenn Beck
#42. My mother and father were supportive. But in an Italian family, you kind of work with your hands, or you are an engineer or a doctor. But an actor was something they couldn't get hold of. They were afraid I wouldn't be able to make a living, and for many years, they were right.
Michael Rispoli
#43. 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.
Amelia Hutchins
#44. Cam had once told her that the Rom believed the entire world was their home. As long as you were with your family you were home.
Lisa Kleypas
#45. This is one of the benefits, as well as one of the difficulties of directing a member of your family. You know where the buttons are. You can push them if you want.
Emilio Estevez
#46. My life is proof that no matter what situation you're in, as long as you have a supportive family, you can achieve anything.
Michaela DePrince
#47. This isn't about being a good friend.."
"No, you're right.. It's about family. You're my family, stupid.
Corrine Jackson
#48. Weren't your friends the family you got to choose?
Karen Swan
#49. (Carter): "I've been protecting you since I joined the Mauricio family. You were why I joined them in the first place."
(Emma): "You did all that for me?"
(Carter): "I would declare war for you.
Tijan
#50. We're family," Alyss said.
Redd snorted. "Is that supposed to mean something?"
Family," Alyss said again, trying to convince herself more than Redd.
Don't talk to me about family! You were never disowned by your parents!"
I'd rather have been disowned by them then see them murdered.
Frank Beddor
#51. I happen to know what family you come from, although I know I'm not supposed to know, and I'm certain you can manufacture proof of anything you want."
"That's true. I can. But I didn't."
-Airiana & Maxim
Christine Feehan
#52. Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?
James Hetfield
#53. The only time I mind autographs is when I'm out with my family. You're trying to enjoy kids and grandkids and here comes a swarm, and there go your wife and kids. That happens to every celebrity. It's the price you pay.
Billy Williams
#54. You don't have to like your family, you don't even have to spend time with them, to know them right down to the bone.
Tana French
#55. When you do movies, it's you have a 3-month family and then everybody goes away and then joins another family, you know?
Ashton Kutcher
#56. Times were tough but when you're
young and have a loving family you know that you will all get through it.
Bob Richardson
#57. Blood is one thing, but that's not all that goes into family. The family you choose is the family that really matters. They're the ones who'll keep you standing.
Mira Grant
#58. Do you have a large family? You seem like someone who suffered through a great deal of sisters."
"I've suffered through a great many people, but none of them sisters. I'm an only child."
That explains a few things, Ceony thought.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#59. It's hard when you're missing your family. You wake up every morning like someone took one of your legs.
Lemony Snicket
#60. I'd rather be the protector than the protected. I'm naturally the protector - being a mother and having a famous family. You have to navigate when it's right to protect.
Solange Knowles
#61. Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?
Katherine Heigl
#62. When you give of yourself to any wounded warrior and their family, you will find that your own heart will begin to heal in a place that you didn't even know was in need.
Diana Mankin Phelps
#63. This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.
Richard Peck
#64. Her head swung around as if it had become detached from her spine. "My God! Your brother is HOT!"
Calista shook her head and looped an arm around the woman's waist. "Yes, he is. I'll be sure to tell my family you thought so."
"It doesn't count when they're drunk. House rule," I complained.
Ashlan Thomas
#65. Family being the most important thing in the world. The most important. Why, it's your family that tells you who you are. Without a family, you're a nobody.
Lauren Groff
#66. I sketch literally all the time; constructing a collection is like building a family - you have to have a certain balance. I isolate myself - I need to be concentrated for this so I leave Paris, I leave to a place without a phone.
Christian Louboutin
#67. Your family is unavoidable. You cannot escape them or trade them in for another family. You also can't change them ... but you can change your response to them.
Jami Attenberg
#68. I don't care what you bench. I care if you have friends and family you love, a career that you love, and helped someone you don't know today.
Dan John
#69. but when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too.
Patrick Ness
#70. It's all about loyalty and collaboration, gathering your gang around you, finding your soulmate in filmmaking because it is a collaborative process. When failure happens, that family you gathered regroups around you and gives you the fresh energy you're lacking.
Matthew Jacobs
#71. What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.
David Brooks
#72. If you do not forgive, you are demanding something your offender does not choose to give, even if it is only confession of what he did. This "ties" him to you and ruins boundaries. Let the dysfunctional family you came from go. Cut it loose, and you will be free.
Henry Cloud
#73. One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.
Mignon McLaughlin
#74. friends are the family you choose.
Kim Holden
#75. You're shopping, you're cooking, you're getting together with family, you're eating food that's bad for you, you're eating more food that's bad for you, and of course you're eating food that's bad for you. Holidays are also an opportunity for
Jim Gaffigan
#76. My fans, country radio, friends, family, you name it - they know I love to perform.
Blake Shelton
#77. Is there something wrong with you? Mentally?
Darlin', you met my family. You've gotta be more specific than that.
(Jess to Smitty)
Shelly Laurenston
#78. To General McChrystal, those men on his team are his family. You know, these guys, they would do anything. They would die for each other.
Michael Hastings
#79. If you wanted to incorporate the Sticks system with an allowance plan in your family, you can. I would suggest $0.50 per Golden Stick for little ones and $1.00 for older kids.
Nadia Swearingen-Friesen
#80. It's very difficult for you to speak out against your child, someone that's in your family. You can have an argument with them, but you can't condemn them. You can't cast them out, because God has not done that to us. We cannot do that to anybody else.
Otis Moss III
#81. I'm the only Red in our family! You know my father, my brother, my brother-in-law, my 14-year-old niece and two of my uncles are all City season ticket holders. So I'm gonna say 5-0 to United!
Ian Brown
#82. The Kennedys were very organized. Dinner was always served at 7:15, and if you were a minute late, it really wasn't worth it. In my family, you never knew when dinner was going to be. It could be at 7, or it could be at 10.
Ethel Kennedy
#83. I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.
Christine Baranski
#84. The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.
Dominic Cooper
#85. I come from a heavy-lidded people. My family, you'll see pictures of them, and it's the same thing all the way back to Scotland.
French Stewart
#86. When you go from movie to movie, it's like going from family to family. You work with people for really intense hours on really long days and a bond happens. So even when a movie is terrible, you love it.
Matthew Lillard
#87. People tend to fear the ghosts in their own family. You feel these family curses and think, 'If it happened to my father, it could happen to me.'
Christian Louboutin
#88. Forgive the cliche, but friends are truly the family you choose.
Jen Lancaster
#90. If you have a talented family, you should be shot if you don't use them.
Spike Lee
#91. Maybe it's about opening up your definition of family to include friends, too. Because friends are the family you choose.
Kim Holden
#92. A lot of the questions that anyone would naturally have about their family, you'll get much of the answers for, or at least hints to where it will go, in the future.
Adam Baldwin
#93. He crouched at the car window and looked in. 'What a lovely family you have. What a charming family. They're all lovely. Except for that one.' His finger jabbed the glass. 'That one's a bit ugly.
Derek Landy
#94. One has to handle these negative experiences alone.You can't get help from your friends or family.You're finally alone with it, and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.
Shirley Temple
#95. Some people have concerns about what it means to leave our responsibilities to robots. I think to some degree in every family, you've got siblings who disagree over the care for their parents.
Jake Schreier
#96. How lucky am I to be blessed with such a loving family? You and Lindsay are my greatest life's work and I am proud artist.
Jacquelyn Ayres
#97. When you're with your family you're with them and when you're working you're doing that. I definitely try to separate the time when I'm working and when I have my personal time.
Melanie Fiona
#98. So: this is where we are going to become parents. You walk into the building as a couple, and leave a few minutes later as a family. You walk in recollecting long romantic dinners, nights at the theater, and care-free vacations. You leave worrying about where to get diapers, milk, and Cheerios.
Scott Simon
#99. You are the posterity of your family. You are either continuing the progression or regression of your ancestors.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#100. As an adult, you think of yourself as being someone else when you're away from your family, but when you come back to your family, you suddenly find yourself back in the exact same role that you always had in your family as a child and as a teenager.
John Wells
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