Quotes About My Own Family

#1. I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Angelina Jolie

#2. I have a great work ethic - from watching Lucille Ball, not necessarily my own family.

Jenny Lewis

#3. Sometimes I think that I cheated my own family and my closest friends by giving to audiences so much of the love I might have kept for them. But that's the way I was made; I truly don't think I could help it

Mary Martin

#4. No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.

Anchee Min

#5. I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.

Malachy McCourt

#6. My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about - having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

Kevin Hart

#7. My own family were far from perfect, yet I thanked the Lord that I had them, even if they did sometimes make me want to kill them all.

Wade Chris

#8. After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.

Suzy Bogguss

#9. It was deflating to realize how much my own family's quality of life might improve if I replaced myself with a Fundamentalist stay-at-home daughter.

Quinn Cummings

#10. My own family basically did what the American justice system does: I was given more lenient treatment than the black kids.

Trevor Noah

#11. I went upstairs to my office. Lay in the dark among my books. The only comforting thing I have. An exile in my own house, my own family. Maybe in my own country.

Philipp Meyer

#12. By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.

Ed Begley Jr.

#13. In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.

Rosalind Wiseman

#14. Most of the time my own family feels like I don't need anything, I'm tough as nails and I don't have any feelings about anything. They really think that I'm this super tough person. I have a tough exterior, but I get upset. I have feelings and all those things. I wear my heart on my sleeve.

NeNe Leakes

#15. I know, not what you were expecting am I? Everybody says that. Including my own family.

Rachel Caine

#16. I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was. I was much more terrified by my own family and real life, you know?

Tim Burton

#17. 'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia.

Kate Grenville

#18. I'd prefer if people had no impressions of me. As a kid, I had to tell my own family, "Please, just don't talk about me!" Because they always got it wrong. Always. I just didn't want them to tell anyone anything about me.

Jack Nicholson

#19. I'm starting my own family, and there is no other feeling like it.

Daniela Ruah

#20. I vale friendship above every thing I care for my friends more then I do my own family sometimes

Pikmin100xx

#21. For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

Anne Tyler

#22. Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

Lionel Blue

#23. Migrants all over the world are pushed and pulled across borders by hunger, terror and climate change. It happened to my own family.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#24. Over the years, I observed that many talented graphic designers, including those in my own family, had difficulty getting their designs to market. I thought it would be possible to hold open stationery design competitions where all designers could participate.

Mariam Naficy

#25. When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account.

Samuel Alito

#26. I'm pretty quiet. But I love to play sports. I like playing all sports. I'll act goofy at times around my wife and my son, around my own family. I like to have fun in general.

Steve Blake

#27. Like the women in my family, I've found the women in my lab a hard-nosed, ambitious lot who have gone on to be faculty members at top universities. In my own family, it is my father who is prone to bursting into tears.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#28. I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment.. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children.

Dolly Parton

#29. Why do others see the need to change me my stringers,teachers even my own family they all seem to find something wrong with the only ones that seem to completely get me are my friends

Pikmin100xx

#30. When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.

John Sedgwick

#31. Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

Camille Paglia

#32. My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize.

Mike Honda

#33. So. Now you know the worst thing I have ever done. I fucked my own family's dinner.

Philip Roth

#34. There's virtually nothing made up in 'The Immigrant.' So much of the film came from somewhere in my family's past. All the details are from my own family.

James Gray

#35. ...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

#36. I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us.

Nancy Pelosi

#37. Now I can see myself married, and I can see myself having my own family. With you. And that's the best gift I could ever have.

J. Lynn

#38. When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.

Cory Booker

#39. When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.

Margaret Mahy

#40. I love you more than myself, more than my own family, for Christ's sake. I don't want to take another step in this world without you next to me,

Penelope Douglas

#41. Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.

William Monahan

#42. We got a lot of letters of people who didn't like them, like my own family who thought they were unnecessary and unpleasant and taking advantage of women in a sad situation - I never saw that. And I think that sometimes, you have to take a risk.

Vera Wang

#43. I grew up with a big family. I want that. I want to have my own family.

Ryan Lochte

#44. It makes me very nervous and poorly,to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbours who think of themselves before anybody else. However, your coming just at this time is the greatest of comforts, and I am very glad to hear what you tell us, of long sleeves.

Jane Austen

#45. I've been wanting to have my own family since I was young. It just took me a while to find the perfect woman.

Matthew McConaughey

#46. I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart.

Matt Groening

#47. When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.

Lois Lowry

#48. I want to conquer the world and it seems like my own family is putting a stop to that.

Kim Wilde

#49. I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys.

Susan Olsen

#50. I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.

Nancy Sinatra

#51. Success is a lot of things. In my personal life it is to have my own family with me, to give all my best to let my daughter have a better life than me, better choices.

Ali Suliman

#52. I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own family's involvement with the armed forces.

Carolyn Murphy

#53. I will put my heart and soul into making sure that the care your son or daughter or mum or dad receives is the same I would want for my own family.

Michael Gove

#54. My Dad is everywhere and he is nowhere. My world tilts on a different axis, orbiting the sun of my own family- but still, I feel his warmth.

Elisabeth Egan

#55. I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.

Johnny Depp

#56. 'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums.

Amy Bloom

#57. All the characters in this book are fictional, but they are as real to me as the members of my own family. I had to tell their story because they could not.

Maral Boyadjian

#58. I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmother's since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.

Penelope Lively

#59. I am my own woman ... and was, long before I became Prime Minister. Attending to my family's needs only made me stronger as a leader because if you know how to run a home and ensure each person's particular need is met, it's the best leadership training you can have.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#60. When I moved to London at age 16, tired of the shuffle around other people's houses and ready to live on my own, I met my English brother and sister, who instantly claimed me as family.

Allegra Huston

#61. At this moment, I know that the answer has to be yes. I am defeated. By my own father. How Darth Vader.

Denis Markell

#62. My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.

Ryan White

#63. Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's.

Rick Riordan

#64. And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.

Sydney J. Harris

#65. I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.

Harmony Korine

#66. I'd always lived with people - my family, or had people living with me, because I'd never liked being on my own.

Elton John

#67. My family advocates doing what fulfills your soul. They've always said, 'You're a big girl; figure it out on your own.'

Kidada Jones

#68. My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing. I don't know. I can't explain my popularity.

Jane Pauley

#69. I'm not fighting restraints or worrying about pleasing everyone. I've been able to carve my own niche in the marketplace, which is pretty cool. Obviously, I'm just blessed to be able to tour the country and make a living to support my family at the same time.

Bill Kirchen

#70. Frankly, accepting the family's unique qualities has done wonders to help my own sanity.

Carly Philips

#71. My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.

Tony Hale

#72. I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.

Rick Astley

#73. I looked into her eyes, and saw my own staring back, the same peculiar shade, pale grey, flecked with yellow, rimmed with black. Now I knew the nature of her debt. It had weighed on her conscience for fourteen years. I was looking into the eyes of mother and I knew that I would never see her again.

Celia Rees

#74. Demond's family history wasn't so different from my own, did that mean we were living the same story over and over again, down through the generations? That the young and Black had always been dying, until all that was left were children and the few old, as in war?

Jesmyn Ward

#75. What will life be like without her? I am dreadfully sad she is leaving. What if she just disappears; gets tired of all this trouble at home? What if she leaves me too? How heavy is a dresser when you're the only one pushing it against the door? I feel truly on my own.

Mira Bartok

#76. In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.

Radhanath Swami

#77. I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn't care for it in other people either.

Brene Brown

#78. My friends and family always thought I was pretty funny, but I don't know if they thought I was get-my-own-show funny.

Nick Kroll

#79. What is a family without love? And by family I don't just mean a packed kitchen table with a hoard of children around it. A family can be made up of any number of people. Me and my fiancee are our own little family, a family of two (and the dog!), and our love is at the heart of that.

Pink

#80. I prayed every night that God would keep my family safe. But as far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

Ja Rule

#81. I am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way, and has enabled me to maintain my family and educate my children and grandchildren, as well as to create a Foundation to empower women and girls.

Isabel Allende

#82. Open her heart to me, please, God. After the mess I've made of things, I can't do this on my own.

Karen Kingsbury

#83. 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

#84. I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.

Rodney Atkins

#85. My favorite place in Indonesia is Bali. I was there with my family in Nusa Dua, and my kids loved it. I'm a workaholic, so for me, Bali is a place where you can have a vacation, but you can have your own moment as well. You feel like you blend with nature - and I love the beach.

Joe Taslim

#86. I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.

Rafael Nadal

#87. Everyone in my family is a risk taker in his or her own way.

Ann Bancroft

#88. What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.

Bonnie Blair

#89. I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family.

Nita Ambani

#90. My parents never pushed me to be an actress. You can come from a family of actors, and sometimes there have been families that grow you up as an actor, but this wasn't my situation. It's very important to find your own way because it's something you then have to confront yourself.

Violante Placido

#91. Thorn, Gardener, get it? More skeptical people tended to believe that the Thorn family simply named itself after their high position in the Gardeners. I had my own theory. I thought his name was Thorn because he's a giant prick.

Erica Lindquist

#92. We all say in our own lives that money isn't everything. Love matters, friendships matter. My relationship with my kids matters. It shouldn't be a giant leap to take that thought and introduce it into political dialogue

David Cameron

#93. I love time with family and friends, but completely relish time on my own when I have no agenda to follow, no to-do's, just me and time alone.

Jacqueline Winspear

#94. I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, 'You've got everything going for you right now', and I say, 'Oh yes, but!' Which is not a good way to be.

Tamsin Egerton

#95. I never want to produce anything that a family could not enjoy together. I never want to create art that would embarrass my own children later.

Clay Aiken

#96. you don't have to bend over backwards, either, and go asking her to dinner or something. She does have a family of her own. You're supposed to take my side in this." "I thought you didn't want us to take sides." "No, no, I don't. I mean you shouldn't take her side, is what I'm trying to say.

Anne Tyler

#97. An armchair Jungian would say the whole thing is about my own ongoing spiritual search. My interior life has always been one of trying to find a spiritual link, maybe because I'm from a family of separate religious philosophies: Protestant and Catholic.

David Bowie

#98. My family's great and everybody's happy and healthy and my career is good. But personally, I had to sacrifice a lot in my own personal life. And I regret that.

Darren Shahlavi

#99. Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.

Drew Fuller

#100. I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

Adriana Lima