Family's Quotes

#1. No family of an American hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved ones. The last thing we should ever do is to add to a family's pain.

Mark Steyn

#2. I believe that a family's still a family not matter if you have two people or ten, no matter if you're raised by a mama or a grandpa. A family can look a hundred different ways, I knew that.

Natalie Lloyd

#3. You wake up in the morning; what do you want to know? You want to know what happened overnight. You want to know if you're safe. You want to know if you're family's safe.

Chris Cuomo

#4. Browsing our local farmer's market is one of my family's favorite weekend activities. Make it a relaxing, healthful habit for your family, and you'll reap the nutritional rewards.

Suzanne Somers

#5. he said we're the Pandavas, didn't you? 'Coz I'm so honest and responsible and all. Like Yudhisthir.' 'Uh, Yudi gambled away his family's entire inheritance,' Eshwari reminds her. 'And their spouse.

Anuja Chauhan

#6. I think everything is going to be devastatingly sad - when the phone rings, I know somebody in my family's been hurt, somebody's going to die. I'm sure a therapist would go, 'That's not a good way to live,' but every time it's not that bad thing, I'm so thankful and appreciative.

Sandra Bullock

#7. A family's life is more important than an individual's life; a nation's life is more important than a family's; the human race is more important than a nation.

John H. Cha

#8. All too often a family's spending is governed more by their yearning than by their earning. They somehow believe that their life will be better if they surround themselves with an abundance of things. All too often all they are left with is avoidable anxiety and distress

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#9. I'm a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family's music, I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.

Linda Ronstadt

#10. My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

Shia Labeouf

#11. My family was absolutely supportive. I did have a fear of cold reads because of my dyslexia, but my family's support and reading classes really helped me overcome my fear!

Bella Thorne

#12. Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

Camille Paglia

#13. Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

Bob Ehrlich

#14. Being the family's literate one, my wife doesn't watch television much, preferring third-world novels, though she'll sit in now and then when I have on Jon Stewart.

Steve Erickson

#15. Then the flight attendants, garbage bags in hand, glided down the aisle, looking each one of us square in the face and whispering, without discrimination, Your trash. You're trash. Your family's trash.

David Sedaris

#16. I am thinking of our family's women
as faraway bulbs, their history
with crippling loss, and
how I am pieced together, shell and sand,
from the spine of their collective strength.

Jerrold Yam

#17. The fact that I'm on 'Essex Anthems' makes me happy, especially because half of my family's from Essex.

Jess Glynne

#18. I do remember my first purchase: the Partridge Family's 'Greatest Hits.' I got it for $3.99 at a failed chain of pre-Wal-Mart-type stores called Jamesway. God, I'm old.

Trent Reznor

#19. She waved good-bye and hurried down the street towards her family's house, thinking again that some nights had good karma and some nights were cursed, and for a few moments, tonight had seemed like the former, but it had ended up the latter.

Elin Hilderbrand

#20. Our family's special holiday tradition is going over to my grandparent's house on Christmas morning. My grandma cooks a big breakfast, and I love hearing her tell old funny stories.

Caroline Sunshine

#21. carrying laborer to teacher and manager. It seems a bittersweet result of the family's loss that the remaining children had managed to lift themselves out of poverty.

Saroo Brierley

#22. So. Now you know the worst thing I have ever done. I fucked my own family's dinner.

Philip Roth

#23. For rich children, it'd be very easy and convenient never to take any steps to build an identity outside of your association with your family's wealth.

Jamie Johnson

#24. In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#25. As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.

Manti Te'o

#26. Some people think family's about DNA, but it ain't. It's about the folks who want you, who stick with you no matter what. They know your secrets and flaws, and you know theirs, and you love each other anyway.

Kim Fielding

#27. He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

Leo Tolstoy

#28. The family's dream was to see me receive a high degree abroad and to return to become a university professor - on the door to my study room, a sign was placed reading 'Dr. Ahmed,' even though I was still far from becoming a doctor.

Ahmed Zewail

#29. She used that word at some point referring to her family's love, infinite, and I thought about how infinite is not a large number. It is something else entirely. It is boundlessness.

John Green

#30. The world needs opportunities for new leaders and new ideas. Kids need opportunities to lead and succeed. Are you ready to make the match? Because the world's problems shouldn't be the human family's heirloom.

Adora Svitak

#31. There's virtually nothing made up in 'The Immigrant.' So much of the film came from somewhere in my family's past. All the details are from my own family.

James Gray

#32. It's called Paris, not Hilton, just me, because I don't want people to think it's my family's. It's mine.

Paris Hilton

#33. Michelle and I don't want anyone telling us who our family's doctor should be - and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.

Barack Obama

#34. And that, she realized, fully encompassed the Carstairs family's last and most important rule of life: no matter what, never forget that everything generations of their family had accomplished could vanish in an instant.

Shelley Gray

#35. I am more likely to end up romantically involved with his cat them him.'
The glee falls offer her face, You - what? Gosh, if I'd known you had a thing for long-haired Persians, I'd have set you up with my family's landlord.

Kiersten White

#36. 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

#37. Silence consumed my whole life; it suppressed things I could never express. My silence was responsible for my family's happiness. Silence was my prison.

Natasha Preston

#38. My family's from Eastern Europe.

David Sax

#39. I now know for certain that my mind and emotions, my fix on the real and my family's well-being, depend on just a few grams of salt. But treatment's the easy part. Without honesty, without a true family reckoning, that salt's next to worthless.

David Lovelace

#40. I enjoy acting, and it's given me a ton of happiness and it's affected my life and my family's lives in ways that we just can't imagine.

Jay Baruchel

#41. In my grandfather's premodern world, how he wanted to live was his choice, and the family's role was to make it possible.

Atul Gawande

#42. Every father and mother are the family's store keepers. They should store whatever their family would like to have in case of an emergency ... (and) God will sustain us through our trials.

James E. Faust

#43. How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

Charles Lamb

#44. A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Susan Sontag

#45. Thank you - for all your compliments about the general badassery of my family's DNA.

Katie Ashley

#46. the Bush family's proclivity for mock human sacrifice. What

Jon Ronson

#47. I guess we were kinda poor when we were kids, but we didn't know it. That's because my dad always refused to let us look at the family's financial records.

Frankie Boyle

#48. Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#49. My dad was Chinese-American and very conservative when it came to his family's futures. He said if I wanted to have a secure job, I should go into science. So I did what Dad said and went to medical school, but the writing bug never left me.

Tess Gerritsen

#50. My immediate instinct when faced with the questions from The Mail on Sunday ten days ago was to protect my family's privacy and particularly my son in his first term at university, living away from home.

Cherie Blair

#51. I'm tired of eating your family's lousy, tasteless recipes," Dad said.
"Tasteless recipes? My grandmother's rolling in her grave!"
"It's from indigestion.

Neal Shusterman

#52. My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.

Christine Taylor

#53. It's a tremendous honor. It really is a privilege, not just a right. You're in the NFL and you wear the shield now. It means the world to me; it really is a special feeling, and my family's gotten a real kick out of it.

Mark Sanchez

#54. We have a family holiday once a year, usually abroad, but that's it. I feel I should have holidays for my family's sake, but I'm not that adventurous.

Robert Webb

#55. I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.

Jessica Pare

#56. Many savers are also homeowners; indeed, a family's home may be its most important financial asset. Many savers are working, or would like to be.

Ben Bernanke

#57. This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.

Adam Sandler

#58. I try to act cool. I've never had a hand on my thigh, under the table. Cathy - my brother's wife - is telling a very funny story about the family's trips to Bridlington, and her elderly Grandmother is doling out peas, which makes the experience even stranger.

Charlotte Stein

#59. Good daughters are fortunate lamps, brightening the family's name. Wicked daughters are firebrands, blackening the family's fame.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#60. When friends enter a home, they sense its personality and character, the family's style of living - these elements make a house come alive with a sense of identity, a sense of energy, enthusiasm, and warmth , declaring: "This is how we are; this is how we live."

Ralph Lauren

#61. When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

Forest Whitaker

#62. Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue.

Rosa DeLauro

#63. As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

Mark Kennedy

#64. Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask them for documentation - what kid would?

Elizabeth Warren

#65. Oh, I know my family's not of royal blood, but you needn't throw it in my face all the time.

Robert N. Lee

#66. They call him the Colonel, and he's Farley's father." "I'd feel sorry for her, but my family's infinitely worse." I

Victoria Aveyard

#67. It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.

Arthur Miller

#68. My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family's possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C. Interior, just because my grandparents were from Japan.

David Suzuki

#69. Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.

Rand Paul

#70. I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now.

Harry Hamlin

#71. Love is the human family's most precious legacy. Its richest bequest. Its golden inheritance.

Michael Jackson

#72. I am basically in awe of every family's ability to make decisions for their kids.

Rebecca Stead

#73. I am my family's appendix, it's unnecessary appendage. - Aaliya

Rabih Alameddine

#74. But their mother was the family's heartbeat. Always she was at the center of their good and bad times, lending perspective or a kind word or a shoulder to cry on.

Karen Kingsbury

#75. I've lived in New York for thirty years now, but I'm a proud Pittsburgher, and home is home. My family's still in Pittsburgh.

Tamara Tunie

#76. The family's first, and the career is second. I could get fired from a show. As long as everything's okay with my family, it really would not bother me.

Dick Van Patten

#77. It's true that I had a bucolic, truly peaceful childhood, growing up in a house next to our family's orchard. We had a lot of books and art, but no electricity until I was eight years old. Since then, I have seen a lot of inner-city life, though.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

#78. I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own family's involvement with the armed forces.

Carolyn Murphy

#79. I think my family's watched me over the years in my career, in my pursuit of my career, and they've seen the challenges and the struggles that come with being an actor, with being a writer and a director, and the challenges of morphing my career in from just being an actor into a writer/director.

Ricky Schroder

#80. Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

Augustus Y. Napier

#81. periodic bouts of depression. Some of these episodes were brought on by his family's

Kai Bird

#82. Constantine, eight years old, was working in his father's garden and thinking about his own garden, a square of powdered granite he had staked out and combed into rows at the top of his family's land.

Michael Cunningham

#83. If she could inherit, she would thus wrongly transmit her paternal family's riches to that of her husband: she is carefully excluded from the succession.

Simone De Beauvoir

#84. Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#85. There was, of course, nowhere better in the world to be than New York City. This fact was the foundation of her family's satisfaction with itself, the platform from which all else could be ridiculed, the collateral of adult sophistication that bought them the right to behave like children.

Jonathan Franzen

#86. I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.

Kevin McCloud

#87. No matter how children came to be living with just one parent, they need to be told, again and again, that your family's configuration is the result of an adult decision or an act of fate that has nothing whatsoever to do with them.

Margaret Kennedy

#88. My family's the most important thing to me right now, and I just want to go be with them right now.

Amanda Knox

#89. Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.

Hope Davis

#90. There are many ties that bind, and as many walls that divide. Music and madness. Love and unending time. Race and war. Strum weaves together each element into a larger human tapestry of light and shadow, where a combination of fate and decision can define a family's legacy.

Nancy Young

#91. My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.

Charles Kuralt

#92. I grow beyond my family's limitations and live for myself. It is my turn now.

Louise Hay

#93. A man deserves credit when he accomplishes something of importance. Something that provides for the betterment of his life and his family's life and, whenever possible, mankind.

Therese Anne Fowler

#94. If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer then? Would you tell your stories, your family's stories, then?

Dorothy Allison

#95. If you ask me, that's reason enough to keep a kitchen at the center of a family's life, as a place to understand favorite foods as processes, not just products.

Barbara Kingsolver

#96. I'm happy, my family's happy, everything is going well.

Novak Djokovic

#97. I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#98. These things are not glorified, just recorded. Tattooed on the heart; burned into the family's history. This piecing together of the life of your child; this homage, this attempt to put it all in order; and even though you will one day wish for the heartbreak to leave you, it never will.

Whitney Otto

#99. It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.

Kate Christensen

#100. A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.

Andre Maurois