Quotes About Family Not Close

#1. Family time was hard when it was your own family, it had to be twice as hard when you were the girlfriend.

Jennifer Close

#2. What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.

Jodi Picoult

#3. Marriage is a team effort. Grow closer to each other as you grow closer to God.

Jim George

#4. 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

#5. Do close your mouth. You look like a cow that's being artificially inseminated.

Nick Wilgus

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. I'm very close to my mother, but not a single other person in my family.

Alexis Stewart

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. My family's really close.

Paul Walker

#20. 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

#21. I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.

Hannah Simone

#22. 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

#23. There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#24. [Christmas] holidays are a heavy, heavy time. We make light of them with our red and green and our stockings and candy canes, but people think heavy thoughts over the holidays because that's when you're thinking about family. Are we close? Or are we not as close as other people?

Augusten Burroughs

#25. I'm not a natural ocean person. I married into a family of swimmers, and I've slowly been drawn into the sea.

Glenn Close

#26. 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

#27. When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.

Mike Singletary

#28. Not by blood, or even by marriage, but family is more than that. You find people you love and keep them close to you. That's what a family is.

Jay Bell

#29. I don't like talking unnecessarily, and my communication skills are zilch. I just can't converse with people. Maybe it's because of my stuttering or stammering, but I'm not confident of talking with people. I only talk to very close friends and family.

Pritam Chakraborty

#30. My rule is, whatever you were calling me four years ago is what you should be calling me now, because I don't like it when my family or close friends call me Nicki Minaj. To me I'm not Nicki Minaj when I'm with them.

Nicki Minaj

#31. Not everyone got a close family. Not everyone needed one.

Ann Brashares

#32. There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.

Richard Rogers

#33. In the traditional family structure of Persia ... one simply cannot discard close relatives just because one does not like them; rather one has to accommodate them, make allowances and accept them, like misfortune.

Shusha Guppy

#34. I've been lucky enough to be surrounded by close friends and family and they've definitely kept me grounded.

Taylor Lautner

#35. I'm very close to my family. Not like these big stars - not mentioning any names - who lose the plot and don't know who they are.

Jennifer Ellison

#36. It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

Barbara Mandrell

#37. You can not say you're unhappy because you have to travel, have to play this tournament, having to play sports ... You can't because you chose to play it and you love it. I'm tremendously grateful for the support I have received from my family and the close ones.

Novak Djokovic

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. I am really close to my family. My cousin is my best friend!

Daniella Monet

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#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. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. They were as close and as distant as any family.

Kate Tempest

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. Take this wealth and this fame, always stay humble, keep your family close, and do ridiculously crazy things.

Rob Dyrdek

#57. My truest desire is fellowship with good friends, the love of a caring family, and a close relationship with God.

Wanda E. Brunstetter

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#61. I leave my circle tight in keep my family close.

Meek Mill

#62. 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

#63. I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.

Barry Gibb

#64. 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

#65. I am close - too close - with my family.

Britt Robertson

#66. 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

#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. It is a family; it's a slightly dysfunctional family, but it's also very close and warm and loving family.

Anna Wintour

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.

Malcolm X

#75. 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

#76. Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.

Amber Tamblyn

#77. My sister has decided to become an actress too. It has ruined the close-knittedness of our family life.

Olivia De Havilland

#78. 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

#79. 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

#80. It's important for me to have my family close.

Curtis Joseph

#81. 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

#82. 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

#83. Love for me is family, close friends - an unbreakable, unconditional bond.

Xosha Roquemore

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. 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