Top 100 Quotes About Close Family
#1. I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.
Barry Gibb
#2. In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very close family, and the Dodgers were the main topic of everybody's conversations and you could sense the affection people had for you. I don't know that such a thing exists anymore.
Don Drysdale
#3. A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.
Jeffrey Kluger
#4. Ms. McMartin had no close family. Her nearest relative was a distant cousin who had recently died in Shanghai, after a severe allergic reaction to a bowl of turtle and arsenic soup.
Jacqueline West
#5. Obviously I ask my family and loved ones for advice here and there, but I kind of have a rule with the people I love that surround me - close family and close friends - that unless I ask for it, I don't really want advice thrown out.
Torrey DeVitto
#6. I do come from a very close family. And I'm fascinated, in particular, with family relationships and the relationships that we all form with friends who feel as close, if not closer, than family.
John Corey Whaley
#7. I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me.
Mohsin Hamid
#8. I was raised in a really terrific, close family, and I've never needed to escape anything or to really let myself go by dancing on tables.
Blake Lively
#9. Tara McLellan, who these men have been convicted of killing, was a colleague of mine and a very close family friend.
James Patterson
#10. I had a very close family and I couldn't get away with anything.
Shirley Temple
#11. People think I'm so confident. Close family members can see through that.
Katie Price
#12. I've never been a drinker, I've never gotten into drugs ... You know, I think I have such a close family ... I think you know my sisters do enough drinking to kind of fill up the whole family.
Kim Kardashian
#13. I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage.
Tony Abbott
#14. PAUL: ...We're a very close family. We don't take kindly to people playing Daily Mail on our family for no good reason.
Billy London
#15. I've been very lucky. I come from a very close family.
Richard Branson
#16. Back in the day, coming out was something very personal. You began by acknowledging the truth, first to yourself, then to close family and friends. Those of us more in the public spotlight, though, also had to 'come out' to the press.
George Takei
#17. When I was born, my dad and my mom gave me names, but in Africa, when your child is born, especially close family members can suggest names they want to add on. Maybe your grandmom and your grandpop have something to add to the name of the child.
Dikembe Mutombo
#18. I suppose that's an inevitable part of human existence, but in the bosom of a close family it can, at least, be endured. For the homeless, there is no relief. Without family or friends there's only the pain.
Peter Kirby
#19. The first Superman film took up a huge chunk of our lives, but it was a wonderful time for us. We were young, my daughter was little, we were filming in London for a year, so we became like a close family.
Margot Kidder
#21. Because I come from such a close family, my natural instinct is to marry and have kids as soon as possible.
Nicole Trunfio
#22. Not everyone got a close family. Not everyone needed one.
Ann Brashares
#23. My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.
Stephen Mangan
#24. We're a very close family and we're a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems.
Emilio Estevez
#25. More important than a clean house is a close family.
Ann Voskamp
#26. We are a very close family, and I love them very much, but I'm definitely the odd one out. I live a completely different kind of life style. I always was different. I felt like a fish out of water; I really never knew who I was.
Janet McTeer
#27. I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.
Lee Iacocca
#28. I live right in front of my daughter. I have a little house right in front of her because I can stay in touch. It's like a little commune, and it's very nice, because you can be close. I can see my granddaughter. I live very close to my brother, too, and my son. We're a very close family.
Debbie Reynolds
#29. I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.
Jennifer Ehle
#30. You need to have a lot of close family around you, a lot of friends to keep you honest. Take your time, take a year and just slow everything down a little bit. Get away from the success part, stay with yourself. Go off on a beach somewhere or do something to keep yourself aligned right.
George Lucas
#31. My sister has decided to become an actress too. It has ruined the close-knittedness of our family life.
Olivia De Havilland
#33. Looking at me from the outside, it is not very obvious, I know half my family is black and I feel close to their culture and their color.
Ryan Giggs
#34. Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now
look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.
John Steinbeck
#35. I leave my circle tight in keep my family close.
Meek Mill
#36. Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#37. Every sorrow is different, but you get through 'em the same way. Plenty of rest, good food, and keeping your family and friends close by." She paused a minute. "A lot of prayer doesn't hurt either.
Shannon Hitchcock
#38. My truest desire is fellowship with good friends, the love of a caring family, and a close relationship with God.
Wanda E. Brunstetter
#39. Take this wealth and this fame, always stay humble, keep your family close, and do ridiculously crazy things.
Rob Dyrdek
#40. The Canadian circle in L.A. is really close. There's a magnet effect where we all just huddle together somehow. It's one big Canadian family, really.
Devon Bostick
#41. They were as close and as distant as any family.
Kate Tempest
#42. My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.
George J. Mitchell
#43. I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.
Alonzo Mourning
#44. Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.
Camille Paglia
#45. I know of no realm of life that can provide more companionship in a lonely world or greater feelings of security and purpose in chaotic times than the close ties of a family.
Charles R. Swindoll
#46. House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?
Bill Pascrell
#47. When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think.
Amish Tripathi
#48. We are a big family; we are all very close, and we always want to talk about what is going on with each other.
Javier Hernandez
#49. I am very close to my family. I have learned a lot from my father. He used to tell me to be honest with yourself and not to argue with your seniors. You don't need to be involved in any quarrel, as sometimes you need to remain silent intelligently.
Suresh Raina
#50. My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen to the radio at night, close our eyes and see movies far more beautiful than you can photograph.
Francis Ford Coppola
#51. My family and I are so close, it's important to have a close knit relationship and to make time to spend with each other, especially at the holidays.
Gia Coppola
#52. Love for me is family, close friends - an unbreakable, unconditional bond.
Xosha Roquemore
#53. I am very close to my family, and there's something life-affirming about that. Even if you feel completely different from them and have totally different views on politics and ethics, you're still family and have that immediate acceptance.
Susanne Bier
#54. Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.
Linda Cardellini
#55. It's important for me to have my family close.
Curtis Joseph
#56. I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.
Chuck Close
#57. I just invited close friends and family, the usual suspects whose opinion I value but who I know will enjoy the film [ Before I Go To Sleep]. I don't know how difficult it is for them to suspend their disbelief because they obviously know me and what they're seeing is not me.
Mark Strong
#58. If I close my eyes, I can remember the first apartment where I lived with my family in Newark, N.J., in the late 1930s. The rooms were lined up like train cars - you had to go through one to get to another - and there wasn't any heat or hot water.
Frankie Valli
#59. Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.
Amber Tamblyn
#60. My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.
Malcolm X
#61. I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.
Alicia Keys
#62. You develop relationships with people, and suddenly a family of actors and crew that you became so close to are now not around anymore. I'm not too sad about it because I got to move on to something else, but it's sad the way these things turn out.
Mark Pellegrino
#63. The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
Florence Welch
#64. If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable - practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust.
Hillary Clinton
#65. In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.
Jet Li
#66. It is a family; it's a slightly dysfunctional family, but it's also very close and warm and loving family.
Anna Wintour
#67. My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with a life-threatening illness like cancer choose a point person for people to call to find out how you are doing - a sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, or close friend.
Olivia Newton-John
#68. I've been lucky enough to be surrounded by close friends and family and they've definitely kept me grounded.
Taylor Lautner
#69. I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality.
Andy Gibb
#70. I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
Hannah Simone
#71. I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
J. C. Chandor
#73. Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.
Ilka Chase
#74. My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.
Elizabeth Warren
#75. My family and I took visits to each and every school and listened to each coaching staff. I felt the most comfortable with and really excited about playing at SC. Being close to home in one of the best offensive systems is paying off now as I'm making the jump to the pros.
Mark Sanchez
#76. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only individuals, but their families as well.
Glenn Close
#77. I'll never lose my roots. I think I'm too close to my family for that. I still make my trip back to Nebraska every year, and I still love going back to Texas where I grew up, as well. I've just kind of had to mature a little bit more and get used to a little bit different style of life.
Andy Roddick
#78. My brother and I had always been very close, especially living in such a dysfunctional family environment. My earliest memories were of my parents screaming and fighting, especially during the holidays. So, we'd weathered the storms together. In
Kristen Middleton
#79. Family time was hard when it was your own family, it had to be twice as hard when you were the girlfriend.
Jennifer Close
#80. My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
Samaire Armstrong
#81. I am fortunate to have a lot of love in my life. I love my family, I love my dog, I love my close friends, and I absolutely love my incredible girlfriend.
Benjamin Stone
#82. I'm very close to my mother, but not a single other person in my family.
Alexis Stewart
#83. It's equally as important to me to be a good friend and a good sister and a good daughter. I'm very close with my family and friends.
Winona Ryder
#84. We spend so much money on these dresses that are terrible. And what do we get out of it? Nothing - a piece of chicken and a roll in the hay with her hillbilly cousin - no thank you. My family's very close; I can do that at home.
Chelsea Handler
#85. My parents split up when I was young, and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.
Ani DiFranco
#86. Do close your mouth. You look like a cow that's being artificially inseminated.
Nick Wilgus
#87. Love you all the time, 'cause when I close my eyes, I still can see your smile, it's bright enough to light my life
Gloria Estefan
#88. Marriage is a team effort. Grow closer to each other as you grow closer to God.
Jim George
#89. What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.
Jodi Picoult
#90. I'm really close with Dave Coulier and his wife Melissa. My family and I go over there for barbeques, for dinners, Super Bowl parties.
Jodie Sweetin
#91. I am really close to my family. My cousin is my best friend!
Daniella Monet
#92. A group of adventurers is known as a "party," and not just because they like to celebrate their success together in the end. Your party should be as close to you as your family--assuming your family can cast spells, kill monsters, and bring you back from the edge of death.
Matt Forbeck
#93. With our close friends, family members, and lovers, we hope to create a special world, one in which we can expect to be treated fairly, with care, tenderness, and compassion.
Sharon Salzberg
#94. she was this close to getting the guts and becoming the unthinkable and loathsome family enemy - an Independent Author.
Lucian Bane
#95. Love is my family and friends. That close-knit circle that sticks by you through the years and through it all.
Allen Evangelista
#96. Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.
Joshua Foer
#97. What they say about TV shows is true. You're really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They're over quicker. You don't form the same bonds.
James Gandolfini
#98. I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.
Tatiana Maslany
#99. I've got a pretty close bond with everyone in my family. I've got a brother and a sister whom I'm very close to, and my parents have always been the world's best parents.
Freddie Stroma
#100. People think they have a perfect idea of who you are from a four-second Snapchat video ... and fake blogs, stories, magazine covers. In reality, that's not the case. Nobody knows who I am except family and my close friends.
Kylie Jenner
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