Top 100 Sayings About A Big Family
#2. I grew up in a big family. You have to learn to get along with each other ... get things done as a family.
John Boehner
#3. In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.
Antonin Scalia
#4. I need to have small morsels of sweets. If I have a day with the fam with a big family dinner, then I'll indulge ... but then the next day or two I'll really be strict. I learned that from Dolly Parton, by the way!
Kimberly Schlapman
#5. I come from a big family of hairdressers; they didn't read newspapers. I would say, 'I'm off to Afghanistan ... ' and they would say, 'Have fun!'
Lynsey Addario
#6. I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname; it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands.
Willem Dafoe
#7. I never thought about what I would write. I just come from such a big family of storytellers.
Molly Antopol
#8. When you come from a big family, you see that, growing up, you're learning how to share. Your sisters have got your back; you're not alone in this - 'We all support you!' Your family provides that; it gives you a sense of safety, and it's a very grounding feeling.
Gisele Bundchen
#9. 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
#10. Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#11. I think it's really amazing to have a big family. I've always wanted one.
Jamie Anne Allman
#12. I'm from a big family; I have four younger siblings. My parents are still happily married together. I grew up moving around a lot, and my family was certainly not affluent.
Alice Greczyn
#13. My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.
Olivier Martinez
#14. Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and the short stories and the poems you never had time to write because of that." And I looked at my children and I said, "These are my poems, these are my stories."
Olga Masters
#15. I'm from a big family. I've got 10 nieces and nephews.
Cheryl Cole
#16. My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.
Rafe Spall
#17. 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
#18. When I was growing up, we always had a big family dinner at around noon on Sunday. I still love that whenever it is possible to gather the family together.
Samuel Alito
#19. One thing I would say is that I think in any environment that you work in, there's always going to be one or two people who you don't like. But there just wasn't that on 'Games Of Thrones'. I know it sounds cheesy and cliched, but it was like a big family.
Alfie Allen
#21. The family we're born into is important, sure, but they're not all we have. They're not all we are. A part of life is making your own family. That's the beauty of it all." I smile softly. "Do you have a big family?" "I do," he says, "but most of us aren't blood related.
J.M. Darhower
#22. I had a big family - two older sisters and a younger brother. My family was like moving around a lot so I lived in a lot of small towns. My father was very restless.
Jessica Lange
#23. I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.
Brooke Burke
#24. We're all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters' mothers are all good friends with my mother. We're a big family, 25 people.
Joel Kinnaman
#25. I'm influenced a lot by my family. I have a big family.
Keith Stanfield
#26. Growing up, I listened and was influenced by a lot of those around me. I have a big family, and my dad listened to '80s music, my mom listened to Motown, my brother listened to reggae, and my granddad was the one that got me into jazz and swing music.
Ella Henderson
#27. I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family.
Gustavo Dudamel
#28. I would compare that to when I first started with the Montreal Canadiens; it was a big family then, where the guys really stuck together and worked like a unit. But when I came back in '88, it was not like that anymore.
Guy Lafleur
#29. But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we're all susceptible to becoming alcoholics.
Payne Stewart
#30. I sort of came from a big family - eight kids - and I guess I always, more than most people, really revel in privacy and solitude sometimes.
John Curran
#31. I'm from a big family - I'm the youngest of seven - and my wife is one of four. So we always wanted a lot of kids. It's what we're used to, and for us it's what life is all about.
Chris O'Donnell
#32. I want six kids. We'll see how it goes, but I want a big family.
Holly Madison
#33. Our lives are so hectic and full, and we have a big family right now.
Marion Jones
#35. I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.
Patrick Dempsey
#36. Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with 'almost.'
Hollis Stacy
#37. I came from a big family - two brothers and two sisters. So, there were always a ton of boys around and a ton of girls around. So, I grew up comfortable with both sexes.
Blake Lively
#38. I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.
Emmy Rossum
#39. My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.
Kendrick Lamar
#40. I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married.
Lewis Grizzard
#41. On the personal side, family is really important to me. I have a big family - five kids and 12 grandkids - so keeping that going is wonderful. And I do a lot of philanthropy. I'm chairman of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Charles Schwab
#42. We are all human beings. As such, we are part of a big family: the human family. The pain of any human being will somehow affect the entire family.
Samael Aun Weor
#43. I want every movie to be like a big family and a great adventure.
Virginia Madsen
#44. I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.
Anne Lamott
#45. It was like a big family, since so many of us brought our kids. We all went surfing. It was so relaxed and easy.
Elle Macpherson
#46. I want to have a big family. My parents have been together for 36 years, and that is what I want. I am in that place. It's all good in that part of my life. It's one part of my life that I'm learning about every day. I've been challenged a lot by it, but it's the most rewarding part.
Gisele Bundchen
#47. My dad loves babies. He's really good with them and is a big family man.
Jade Jagger
#48. I'd like to someday see myself married to my true love and starting a big family, and at the same time still having an artistic job.
Natassia Malthe
#49. To just get in front of different kinds of audiences is important for me. I do think it's important for music to be a big family. Whether it's country or not.
Ashley Monroe
#50. We don't have nannies and all that, we look after our own kids. It's just what you do. If you want a big family that's just what you do, isn't it?
Ray Winstone
#51. I have a bunch of brothers. I grew up with a big family.
Taylor Kinney
#52. When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug.
Jencarlos Canela
#53. I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father, and trying to be a good father, I already have my work cut out for me.
David Charvet
#54. I grew up with a big family. I want that. I want to have my own family.
Ryan Lochte
#55. I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a pack and we're a big family for a finite period of time. We roll into someplace, cause a bunch of damage, and then roll out.
Francis Lawrence
#56. A football team is really a big family. There's a give and take ... but a few are working for their name only. They go the whole week trying to figure out who said something, what they said and where it happened instead of showing that they're big men.
Otto Rehhagel
#57. When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely ... Having a big family solves that problem.
Michael Chabon
#58. I've always wanted a family since I was a little girl - a big family. I'm an only child, so I wanted, like, 10 kids ... for sure.
Behati Prinsloo
#59. confirmed that Walsh was in a restaurant for a big family celebration on the evening Mr Oakley was killed. I had to
Stephen Puleston
#60. I have a big family and had to move them all from the coast of Oregon to New York three times for the workshops and for the actual production itself, which had about a four month development rehearsal schedule.
Gregory Harrison
#61. Children from a big family have the benefit of a certain amount of neglect.
Wallace Stegner
#62. I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.
Heidi Klum
#63. When the whole world starts behaving like a big family, protecting and caring each other, the world will become a good place to live!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#64. I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.
Carine Roitfeld
#65. I just have two daughters and a grandson. So not a big family.
Patrick Modiano
#66. I came from a big family ... a big family of Southerners.
Blake Lively
#67. I have a big family and no one ever treated me like a child. They always treated me like an adult, like an equal.
Blake Lively
#68. I wish I hadn't stopped. Maybe by now we'd be married with six or seven kids." "Six or seven?" "I always wanted a big family." "And exactly who do you think will be popping out all those babies?" "You've got the hips for it.
Quanie Miller
#69. The NBA is a big family, and I think of all these rookies as my brothers. I still believe I am blue collar among the All-Stars.
Yao Ming
#70. I'm not a big family person. I'm more of a loner.
Megan Fox
#71. It's always a bit overwhelming when you arrive on set and everyone's new, but you soon become a big family. I find the hardest thing about acting is that you have to say goodbye to everyone at the end of a shoot.
Nicholas Hoult
#72. I always thought I desperately wanted a husband and a big family, because I didn't have it growing up.
Drew Barrymore
#73. I have a big family, and I spend a lot of time with them.
Mitt Romney
#74. I look to my family for my support. I'm fortunate to have a big family.
Chris O'Donnell
#75. I come from a big family of storytellers and, growing up, I liked hearing about the years before I was born.
Molly Antopol
#76. I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.
Laurie Anderson
#77. I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#78. I always wanted to have a family - that was one of my big wishes. And in school, I'd taken drama, and I'd always wanted to act. I did go to drama school in New York, Los Angeles and London, and I did small parts here and there, but I never really had the time. Modeling was always paying more.
Jerry Hall
#79. I was singing before I started acting. As a kid, I would always perform at the big family parties.
Chrissie Fit
#80. Dave and Kathy went shopping to buy all the stuff that their baby would need. It was like a great big celebration going on to welcome the new member of the family. Time
Heather Graham
#81. She was uncertain about taking his hand in marriage after he'd revealed to her that his deceased father was a big-time hustler, and his twin brother had taken over the family empire. She was scared.
Aleta L. Williams
#82. So if you serve a whole chicken to your family like grandma did, you may be serving them 10 times as much fat than the days of yesteryear. That's a whole lotta fat, and big trouble for the waistline.
Kathy Freston
#83. I come from a big, loud family, and I'm the quieter one. Performing is something I have to switch on. I've heard I get real sassy onstage, which I'm not in real life! It's fun to be that person for an hour a night.
Lorde
#84. I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.
Olivier Martinez
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
Emma Thompson
#88. People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.
Janelle Monae
#89. That's the thing with Holy Moses: big as a house and scary as heck if you don't know him, but Charley Manson and his whole family could come parading through here and he'd give them you room key for a slice of sharp cheddar.
Ms. Fisher, The Last Stop
Kirt J. Boyd
#90. I'm a big believer in creating family traditions. Every Tuesday morning, I make a proper eggs breakfast, and we all sit down and eat.
Ivanka Trump
#91. I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.
Sloane Crosley
#92. Big Stupid leapt up. Little Duane had a gun. Big Stupid punched Little Duane so hard his whole family tree died back to the Middle Ages.
Victor Gischler
#93. I wasn't big on family gatherings. Too many intimate strangers. I smiled a lot, but really I never knew what to say.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#94. Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
Madonna Ciccone
#95. 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
#96. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.
Zig Ziglar
#97. You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
Erma Bombeck
#98. I'm a big fan of doing 'Triple D.' But I don't want to do it forever, don't get me wrong! Travel away from my family, are you crazy? But do you know what it does for these mom-and-pop restaurant joints? It changes their lives forever. I mean, their businesses will never be the same.
Guy Fieri
#99. If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.
Will.i.am
#100. A Third's okay for a fuck, but not for a family. This isn't goddamned Big Love, Florida Fag Edition.
Tymber Dalton
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