Our Family Quotes

#1. Really, Fearghus. You need to stop asking me to let you kill our family.

G.A. Aiken

#2. I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.

Kaley Cuoco

#3. Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.

Oliver Hudson

#4. Food was always a conduit in our family for storytelling, and it was a way for us to keep in touch and remember things. We're people that use food to keep each other together and to always cheer us up and make all of our days better.

Rachael Ray

#5. In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.

Kiki Smith

#6. You know what, we're very skinny in our family.

Ashley Scott

#7. If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant that we ran rather than loitered. Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty.

Sherwood Anderson

#8. When you watch your mum and dad sing and they're happy and it brings them joy, it is then a natural choice to go where the joy is. Music was always that place in our family.

Julia Stone

#9. We need to let our family and our friends know this truth - God is love, and he inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him. - 2 Nephi 26:33

M. Russell Ballard

#10. We're half siblings, after all. We share the same DNA - and in our family, DNA stands for Denial Now and Always.

Jane Lotter

#11. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#12. Our family has made its livelihood from the land, digging trenches for hundreds of miles cross-country. You could say this is a real paradox, to destroy the land, yet love it at the same time. This is a typical story of Westerners, how we build community through change.

Terry Tempest Williams

#13. For my little dog, Pip, who joined our family during the writing of
this story. Thanks for rescuing me.

Jackie Braun

#14. My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love.

Chuck Schumer

#15. It was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be.

Calvin Trillin

#16. My wife wanted to call our daughter Sue, but I felt that in our family that is usually a verb.

Dennis Wolfberg

#17. Reconciliation is a deep practice that we can do with our listening and our mindful speech. To reconcile means to bring peace and happiness to nations, people, and members of our family ... In order to reconcile, you have to possess the art of deep listening.

Nhat Hanh

#18. We are as the dead," Sha said. "Our purpose is to dedicate our lives to the service of our lord. And, when it is necessary, to surrender those lives. When we become what we are, we lose our lives - our names, our family, our homes, and our honour. All that remains is our lord.

Jim Butcher

#19. Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.

Paul Pearsall

#20. The day you appeared on our family tree, I wanted to cut it down.

Jamie McGuire

#21. I was 19 when my father died from a heart attack. He was a 55-year-old college professor and had led what was by all appearances a risk-free life. But he was overweight, and heart disease runs in our family.

Alex Honnold

#22. We, the privileged majority, talk about equality until it comes to our family having to give up something

Brenda Vicars

#23. Our family brings a different amount of - not fame - attention.

Khloe Kardashian

#24. 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

#25. When I'm home, the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up, my parents both worked, so dinnertime was for family - the TV was off. I think it's important to grab that time and really make it special, even after a tough day.

Cat Cora

#26. The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in it is deeply hurtful and sad; and also deeply bewildering.

Andrew Solomon

#27. In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.

Ruth Gordon

#28. The ability to last in motherhood requires giving up expectations for our own lives, deciding that sacrificing our desires and wants for the sake of our family is our gift of worship to our heavenly Father. To

Sarah Mae

#29. Our whole family thrives under pressure. It's like our family motto or something.
Apart from my brother Peter, of course. He had a nervous break down. But the rest of us.

Sophie Kinsella

#30. We belong to a tradition where we treat the entire universe as our family. For me, globalisation is the manifestation of nationalisation. There is no contradiction between the two.

Narendra Modi

#31. I grew up with the word "volunteer" as a very powerful word in my family. I was inspired by my mother and by how selfless our family was toward others who didn't have enough.

Eva Longoria

#32. We go where our family goes. We go where our friends are, and because our social networks are so segregated by race, we end up with what we have. We also find that, you know, if you're immigrants, you're not part of that history.

Michael Emerson

#33. There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.

Carrie Fisher

#34. We become the people who are made by our family and society when we are ignorant of who we are

Sunday Adelaja

#35. My cousin is gay, I always tell him that in our family tree, he's in the fruit section.

Rodney Dangerfield

#36. The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.

Dennis Wilson

#37. There is an overwhelming amount of information available to us all on the web each day, not to mention what is shared with us by our family, friends, fans, and followers. This necessitates the need to filter through all that information and to decide for ourselves where to put our attention.

Simon Mainwaring

#38. I will probably only give birth to two and then the rest will come to our family however it happens. I can only hold two, but you never know. I really want a boy because boys love their mamas!

Ana Ortiz

#39. My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

Dolores Huerta

#40. 'You have chickens?' That's what nearly everyone asks next, after they find out about our family pets. They just need to make sure they heard me correctly. Perhaps it's because I don't come across to most as a rural-loving farm girl.

Amy Robach

#41. Breakneck is the MC name, but it's also a word for our family. He's asking if I'm laying a claim forever on her. That is the kind of claim that we would risk everything for.

Crystal Spears

#42. I think a lot of the time, we don't give our family connections the kind of credit they deserve, like how important they are to us and how much they mean to us. I think family makes all the difference.

JoBeth Williams

#43. In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

V.S. Pritchett

#44. Grandma; it was to grandma I truly wanted to have returned, but she was no more. I could only remember the day she died. The tears mother shed on me, as if I was going to face a more difficult world than any other member of our family. Pg.100

Obehi Peter Ewanfoh

#45. . You're not fussed about unique or being impressed. After everything we've been through, the lives that we've already lived. What we have survived to get to this point brought me to the conclusion that all that matters, is you, me and our family

Lesley Jones

#46. I don't think at that time I realized how important it was and how important it was for me to be here and carry on that legacy in our family of being a photographer.

Kim Weston

#47. Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family and childhood experiences, and they become rooted in the subconscious ... we have the ability to take action to override it ...

Lauren Mackler

#48. What's really cool about our family is that we don't hold grudges, and I think that is what's been the key to the success. We get into our little disagreements, and whether we're right or wrong, we'll go and apologize. That's just the way we are.

Selena

#49. I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish.

Dick Cheney

#50. In our family an experience was not finished, nor truly experienced, unless written down and shared with another.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#51. I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family.

Brie Larson

#52. We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.

Julia Barr

#53. Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks.

Dorothy Hamill

#54. My dad has this beautiful spirit of being able to create no matter where he is. He's always been so selfless with our family. It's hard to put words to it. He's an incredible man.

Matt Lauria

#55. The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

#56. I do not devalue the role of a maid or nanny, or the stereotypical roles that some members of our family have actually done to feed our families in real life.

Gina Rodriguez

#57. You must teach the child of the signs that come to the women of our family when there is trouble and death to be.

Betty Smith

#58. There was a saying in our family that no one ever died; people just dried up, were hung on a hook, and conducted their affairs from there.

Mildred Armstrong Kalish

#59. They've really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home.

James Levine

#60. Who are we to trust if not our family?

Pope Alexander VI

#61. Eventually we find that we no longer need silence. We no longer need solitude. We no longer even need words. We can make all our actions holy. We can cook a meal for our family and it becomes prayer. We can go for a walk in the park and it becomes prayer.

Mark Haddon

#62. When my Republican colleagues talk about family values, they mean that a woman should not be able to have the right to control her own body; that women should not be able to purchase the contraceptives that they want. Those are their family values, not our family values.

Bernie Sanders

#63. Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#64. Our family was the most important part of Charlie's life. He loved us very much, and we adored him.

Lynn Schusterman

#65. I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family.

Sukarno

#66. They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.

Afrika Bambaataa

#67. My parents were lured to America by the democracy here promised. In our family, freedom was a word to conjure by. Hoping for larger privileges for the growing family of children, they brought them to the New World, the world of many intellectual as well as material advantages.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#68. 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

#69. My mother has always encouraged my creative side. She is a very eclectic, creative woman and looks incredibly glamorous, even when trudging about in wellies. Our family home is full of items from her travels and her amazing etchings and drawings.

Alice Temperley

#70. 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

#71. I wrote something when I was 9 that seemed pretty good for a 9 year old; it concerned flowers in our family garden - I was grateful my mother praised it. Of course, I found out later it was pretty silly, but it was the first poem I was proud of.

Brenda Hillman

#72. I mean, there's a little bit that gets out, but for the most part, the thing that makes us work, and makes our family successful, and our life successful, is when we walk home and we walk into our doors of our house, all that other stuff is left outside. It's not a factor.

Tim McGraw

#73. My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that other people wouldn't have been able to do. But then again, we've also been able to live a normal life as well.

Zara Phillips

#74. My mom and dad built our family on faith in God. It's the most important part of our lives.

Karen Kingsbury

#75. And this,' Ivan said to the children gathered around, 'is who we are, and this is what we do. Our family serves the Lord
no matter what comes
and when He answers our prayers, no matter how he answers them
we give him praise.

Serena B. Miller

#76. Our pets are our family.

Ana Monnar

#77. I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.

Rick Perry

#78. We used to really feel like the band was our family.

Chris Frantz

#79. But I told my grandmother, and she listened, and then she said, "Don't ever tell this story to anybody else. If you tell this story to anybody else, something terrible will happen. Something terrible will happen to our family." And then she had a lot to do. (174)

Robert Goolrick

#80. Some of the greatest values that have influenced me through the years are those that I learned as a boy growing up on the farm. I remember mostly the love in our family, but I also remember the discipline. Then there was the work; we all had to work.

Billy Graham

#81. During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning.

Ayelet Waldman

#82. We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.

Philippa Gregory

#83. Everything that is true is authentic. When we were born, we did not have knowledge. As soon as we have language, we learn to describe everything through that language and we learn to be like our family, our parents, those at school, etc.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#84. It is the inner peace that can bring peace in our family, in society and ultimately, in the world.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#85. What is our family? We touch our full hearts and see ourselves reflected whole in each other's eyes.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#86. We don't play the celebrity business in our family.

Tom Brokaw

#87. 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

#88. We feel really blessed to have been asked to come here, and to have the opportunity for our family to be able to look into the eyes of these people, and in some way help.

Connie Sellecca

#89. When we have fights in our family, they don't end with an apology. You make up by getting back to normal. Like you'll call and say, 'You want to go shopping?'

Kourtney Kardashian

#90. The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.

Lily Rabe

#91. If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home.

P. J. O'Rourke

#92. Our family is a circle of strength and love ... Our family with ever birth and every union the circle grows, our family is a circle of strength every crisis faced together makes the circle stronger.

Harriet Morgan

#93. My dad has done a bit of research on our family tree, and we can trace it quite far back. My dad believes he has traced us back to being a great-great-great-great-great-great cousin of Wellington.

Tom Bennett

#94. Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.

Clayton M Christensen

#95. It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

Agnetha Faltskog

#96. There are no shadows in our family," Paul said. "We don't hide anything. But that's a tough place to get to. It takes work and it's painful.

Donald Miller

#97. My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

Dolores Huerta

#98. We will fail God, we will fail our family, and our family might fail us at times, but God never fails us.

Nick Vujicic

#99. We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.

Harold Ramis

#100. My diaries were written primarily, I think, not to preserve the experience but to savor it, to make it even more real, more visible and palpable, than in actual life. For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh