Quotes About My Family

#1. With my family, historical facts are subsidiary to narrative, and narrative must always show the narrator in the best light.

Stuart Rojstaczer

#2. All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.

Gloria Gaynor

#3. Having life experiences outside of acting is something my family has always made sure happens.

Yara Shahidi

#4. I have nothing but troubles with my car. Every Sunday I take my family out for a push.

Rodney Dangerfield

#5. My family actually owns an MMA promotion company, so it's kind of a family deal. It's called Fight Sports Entertainment, and they throw amateur fights in California. Because of that, I've given my mom a lot of the fighters to fight in a show.

Jonathan Lipnicki

#6. I'm well in touch with my family, my children. I keep them on my answer phone, so if I want to hear one of their voices, all I have to do is punch it up and it will be there.

Davy Jones

#7. When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted to. Afterwards, I went to Cambridge to study law - in a way, I was carrying the academic hopes of my family, as Mum and Dad left school at 14.

Stephen Mangan

#8. My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure.

Conor Oberst

#9. Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?

James Hetfield

#10. It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return ...

Carl Jung

#11. My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on a bottle of scotch.

Rodney Dangerfield

#12. I'm really happy in Liverpool and the club feels such a family. I feel great, I have a nice house and my family have been here from the beginning so they could help me.

Royston Drenthe

#13. I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would have to sell real estate in New York City to look after my family, that would be fine with me.

Alec Baldwin

#14. I am what I am. Before I was not so proud to make fashion. My family thought fashion wasn't very interesting. So I hid that.

Sonia Rykiel

#15. We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science, and economics. We are still incapable of understanding that the only genuine backbone of our actions-if they are to be moral-is responsibility. Responsibility to something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success.

Vaclav Havel

#16. I spend time with my family. I have got two daughters who are too young to know their Dad's a footballer. They just want to play with their Dad. I like to play golf, too, but apart from that, that's me, I'm afraid.

Alan Shearer

#17. I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and father have been married four times each - eight ceremonies with the best of intentions.

Joshua Ferris

#18. My family barbecued a lot; good barbecue is more complicated than you think.

Manish Dayal

#19. The only time I mind autographs is when I'm out with my family. You're trying to enjoy kids and grandkids and here comes a swarm, and there go your wife and kids. That happens to every celebrity. It's the price you pay.

Billy Williams

#20. I didn't think I was going to be an actress. Everybody in my family was in films, and they succeeded so much, I thought, 'It's better for me to do something else,' and they agreed.

Isabella Rossellini

#21. I became an American citizen three years ago, and if I'd been arrested, maybe that wouldn't have happened. That was a very proud moment, by the way. I still have my Irish passport, but becoming an American citizen was important in terms of my family.

Jason O'Mara

#22. As it happens, however, no one in my family recognizes the existence of an impossibility. (We're not specially courageous, we're just bullheaded as all get-out, and the whole lot of us as independent as a hog on ice. Every last one of us would argue with a wooden cigar-store Indian.)

Markham Shaw Pyle

#23. I was stolen from my family by Navajo raiders when I was fourteen, and taken in by a Navajo family who had lost a daughter of their own." Josefina

Kathleen Ernst

#24. I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

Harry Houdini

#25. I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it. The only thing I know about it is what I picked up from my aunts and parents.

Robert Barry

#26. When I became successful, I put up a caution. I didn't think it was fair to have the shadow of that kind of success thrown on my family. And I was cautious about being taken by things that could destroy you.

Robert Redford

#27. My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.

Rupert Everett

#28. A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

Rick Moranis

#29. My whole life has been nothing but trying to find a way to take care of my mom and take care of my family as quickly as possible.

Derrick Rose

#30. I don't want to do anything to embarrass my family or my church because the town that I come from is so small. There are certain things that I just can't be part of because of my foundation.

Michelle Williams

#31. I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, and one of them was 'The Phantom of the Opera' with Claude Rains that was in color. It was something very important for my career because I began to follow these stories that were morbid.

Dario Argento

#32. I love religion only when it can strengthen my family.

Toba Beta

#33. I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'

Dwight Henry

#34. I must admit that outside the university, it is difficult to be a pure mathematician. No one in my family understands what I do. My neighbors wonder why I spend all my time in my study scribbling with pencil on a yellow pad of paper instead of going outside to mow the lawn.

Isadore Singer

#35. I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

Robin Gibb

#36. When my mother died, it sort of put a damper on things. My career didn't have the same significance or excitement. It had always been about doing well for my family - my brothers, sisters, father, mother. Then something interesting and important happened - I started doing things for me.

John Travolta

#37. My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.

Thomas Jefferson

#38. As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.

Annette Funicello

#39. My family is my career.

James McBride

#40. My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my sense of humor.

Karen Duffy

#41. I'm about making music and spending time with my family. I've been in the spotlight so long that I'm looking for something different.

Big Boi

#42. Believe it or not, my best meal is to go to the store and buy a DiGiorno pizza, come home, add some fresh Parmesan cheese, and just hang with my family!

Cheyenne Jackson

#43. I think I've got a responsibility to be home a little bit more, be available to my family a little bit more and do some things to help make our country better. I don't know what that is right now, but we'll see.

Tony Dungy

#44. In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

David Mamet

#45. I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business.

Kathy Ireland

#46. He wanted to know all about me and my family and especially my childhood.

"That's where everything starts," he'd say. "Both heaven and hell.

Celeste Albaret

#47. I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

Dolly Parton

#48. I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.

E.L. Konigsburg

#49. I wanted a house near my family in a quiet neighborhood with a front yard and a backyard that my dog will like.

Kylie Jenner

#50. Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.

Janine Di Giovanni

#51. I willingly devoted myself to my children and to my husband. I come from a broken home, and I decided a long time ago that I would put my family ahead of everything.

Andie MacDowell

#52. I don't think anybody should ever take their life for being bullied. But if it wasn't for my family ... and my circle of friends, I could definitely see why someone would see it doesn't get any better than this, but it does. Life is so beautiful.

Khloe Kardashian

#53. Everything's a real passion to me - my children, my family, my work, travel. I don't play tennis, I don't play music, but I have a great time.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

#54. Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs.

Chaka Khan

#55. Petersburg, growing up at home, all by my family and friends, Petersburg really, city-raised me, you know everybody there.

Trey Songz

#56. In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general.

Benjamin Booker

#57. I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.

Mike Krzyzewski

#58. It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

Don Marquis

#59. I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.

Lucy Hawking

#60. Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell him that my family was part of the Catholic Church in India, he knifed me.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#61. It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.

Dawn French

#62. It was difficult when I was very young because I was so separated from my family. When I was at school or acting in a play, I felt very much part of something, and then it would always change, and I would be by myself.

Kim Cattrall

#63. I'm the only one in - of my siblings, my mom and my family - that hasn't been affected by Lyme disease. It's been really hard for me because I'm the only one that doesn't really understand it.

Gigi Hadid

#64. Fundamentalist Christians are my sisters and brothers, my family and friends, my oldest colleagues and coworkers. But I fear their love for the nation has become an obsession to reshape it in their own image.

Mel White

#65. I love Jere more than anybody. He's my brother, my family. I hate myself for doing this. But when I see you two together, I hate him too." His voice broke.
"Don't marry him. Don't be with him. Be with me.

Jenny Han

#66. Insanity does NOT run in my family. It strolls through, takes its time, and gets to know everyone personally. - T-SHIRT

Darynda Jones

#67. My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.

Emma Bunton

#68. Saying of the Prophet
The Bequest
I have nothing to leave you except my family.

Idries Shah

#69. We all have, in my family, what we call the 'Vorderman bottom' - a sticky out, bigger-than-normal, signature, of the rear variety. It's been a family joke all our lives - even my lovely brother has one. I know the lines to all the good singalong big bum songs.

Carol Vorderman

#70. I love coffee, I love my family, I love being in New Zealand - that's honestly one of my top five favourite things - faith is important to me, and I hope to be married one day. I love that coffee was number one.

Zac Farro

#71. Throughout my career, my family and I have fallen victim to inappropriate attempts to contact me by several unknown individuals.

Marvin Sapp

#72. 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

#73. The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love my family, thank God - we've given ourselves, to some degree.

Dan Gilroy

#74. My family, my fans and yes, romance is always there in one way or another. Life is full of these emotions and I have always found pleasure in incorporating them into my music.

Marc Anthony

#75. I like to see photographs: I like to see my family. To me, when I open a basic browser, and it's that very elegant silver simple user interface, I am unhappy. I don't need elegant and silver and simple!

Mitchell Baker

#76. intended as a dig at my father, the enterprise being another of science's excesses, like cloning or whisking up a bunch of genes to make your own animal. Antagonism in my family comes

Karen Joy Fowler

#77. It's great to have a place of my own, but I still see my family often, as we are very close.

Anthony Howell

#78. My family brought me up to be very assimilated and accepting of everyone. But I do get frustrated when I see other Asians who behave in a way that reflects a stereotype.

Pearl Tan

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

Novak Djokovic

#80. When my family isn't alright, I get restless. It just doesn't seem right to me.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#81. I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.

Brad Pitt

#82. My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.

Chang-rae Lee

#83. Considering the fact that I have been in the spotlight more or less since I was 18, there is an aspect of normality to my public profile, which I have grown to live with. As much as I would like to disappear into the crowd, my work won't let me - difficult as it is for my family.

Cat Stevens

#84. My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

John Oliver

#85. My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Billy Graham

#86. What gives these corporations like CONOCO, SHELL, EXXON, DIASHAWA, ITT, RIO TINTO ZINC, and the WORLD BANK a right which supercedes or is superior to my human right to live on my land, or that of my family, my community, my nation, our nations, and to us as women?

Winona LaDuke

#87. Early on, my family really made me love who I was and what I looked like.

Jennifer Lopez

#88. It's like he's my family, except better, because I've chosen him.

Patrick Ness

#89. I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.

Nigella Lawson

#90. I really felt that I had accomplished my goals in life. My first passion has always been to be a restaurateur, a good husband and father, and to provide for my family.

Guy Fieri

#91. They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

Francis Ford Coppola

#92. I've been here for nine years, and over that time, these people have become like my family.

Jerry Lawler

#93. My family is from a tiny town in Alabama. So all I wanted to do was get out of this town.

Lennon Parham

#94. I've never believed in risking what my family and friends have and need in order to pursue what they don't have and don't need.

Warren Buffett

#95. My family was not Republicans. I'm the youngest. I came to this party based upon choice.

Kevin McCarthy

#96. Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.

Nastia Liukin

#97. There are no winners today, but I feel justice for my family, i have to watch my two sons put a leg on every day ... but I can tell you it feels like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders.

Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev

#98. I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.

Bill James

#99. I pull back and an exhale eases out of my lips. He's the first person I've intentionally touched outside my family for the last six years.

Jessica Sorensen

#100. When I went back to Shea last year it really hit me how much the fans care for me, it still gives me goose bumps. I want to do the right thing for them and my family.

Dwight Gooden