Quotes About Family Comes First

#1. My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

Elvis Costello

#2. For me, family always comes first; I would do anything to protect them.

Mark Wahlberg

#3. I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?

Jeff Lindsay

#4. I decided long ago that my family absolutely comes first, and I don't regret that. I do, however, sometimes wish I had an extra five hours or so in the day!

Elizabeth Hoyt

#5. My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, and our son, William, but not necessarily in that order. Then, it's this fascinating world of publishing that devours most of my days and many nights.

Dorothea Benton Frank

#6. People who work for me know that family comes first. And I'm fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don't have to live two separate lives.

Kamala Harris

#7. Family comes first so I only have this specific window of time available to me and because of that I actually get more done.

Brad Pitt

#8. First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Angelina Jolie

#9. My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.

Bobby Darin

#10. I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.

Katherine Heigl

#11. My priority is always the family and Victoria [Beckham] and I always ensure we are there for our children. We work hard but family comes first.

David Beckham

#12. ...True classical dropouts in society are those who avoid difficult challenges and cling to the first opportunity that comes their way. They never test their talents. These latent talents will only help to produce the next cycle of dropouts...

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#13. Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.

Madonna

#14. It's with a heavy heart that I have decided that I can't relocate. I have two babies under 4. being a mother and wife comes first and I just can not uproot my children and separate the family by moving away. I will miss this job desperately and wish everyone the absolute best.

Alyssa Milano

#15. My family absolutely comes first, and I don't mean that in a Pollyanna way. It's the focus of my life because it's what makes me happy.

Tracy Pollan

#16. I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and the bitterness that comes when there is no hope and a lot of despair. So I wanted to build the company, in a sense, that my father never got a chance to work for.

Howard Schultz

#17. My family comes first, and you have to be in charge to be able to protect that. You have to be the one who says no or you don't have a life, which is what I found out the first time.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#18. My mother taught me that family comes first. It is engraved on my heart.

Cung Le

#19. ...I am about eight years old when I first become aware of being other--foreign, outside, separate. Because this lesson comes from my own family, it resonates deeper and truer than playground taunts ever have.

Soojung Jo

#20. Life can be difficult sometimes, it gets bumpy. What with family and kids and things not going exactly like you planned. But that's what makes it interesting. In life the first act is always exciting. The second act, that is where the depth comes in.

Joyce Van Patten

#21. In our youth, we may have ridiculed the cost-of-living-index family, with their house, two cars, and two kids, but today we are pro-family. We have seen the damage done by the previous generation and have doubled our efforts when it comes to caring for our families. Our children come first.

Gudjon Bergmann

#22. It's very important to prioritize. I know, for me, my family comes first. That makes every decision very easy.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#23. Family comes first is indeed a powerful principle, but so is the imperative for your own development. It is not a self-explanatory or self-applying principle, and it can collide with other principles.

Edward Rocklin

#24. America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.

Barack Obama

#25. Security comes first from inside of you. Then, if you are very lucky, you will be in a position to find other people who also possess that same sort of security, and build some sort of family or community as a team.

Anthony D. Ravenscroft

#26. Family comes first, and golf is second.

Jason Day

#27. As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.

Laura Osnes

#28. Family comes first. You're the only thing they have.

Heidi Klum

#29. To me, God comes first, my family come second. If I fail at those two, I'm just playing games.

Kirk Cameron

#30. I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.

Faith Hill

#31. My family comes first before anything, they are everything to me.

Nick Carter