Thing About Family Quotes

#1. The great thing about family, Mary mused, was that they showed up. When it really mattered, your family, be they blood or by choice, were always where you needed them to be, even though they had busy lives and jobs and children of their own.

J.R. Ward

#2. And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.

Dave Barry

#3. The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.

Robert Breault

#4. The thing about members of your family is that if you met them for the first time at a party, you might not bother to take their phone number, and yet something binds you.

Celia Imrie

#5. I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

Oscar Wilde

#6. That's the thing about becoming a family: you gotta melt. You have to keep melting into each other until you become something entirely new. The only constant family rule is that everyone has to keep showing up.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#7. If there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking. Also, the people whom I grew up with all did things they really loved. And I think that's an important lesson.

Rooney Mara

#8. It's been scattered and I had to follow leads. Some stuff was with different family members in various drawers. I find out about more stuff and more stuff [over time]. I won't call it a treasure hunt, but it's like an old Western movie we're you're onto one thing and it turns into another.

Aaron Brookner

#9. No one has got close enough to use or abuse me, and even if they did, I wouldn't get too emotional about it. The only thing I ever get emotional about is my family. I am kind to everyone but I trust no one. That keeps me from getting hurt.

Akshay Kumar

#10. I didn't really know anything about Romany culture going into this [Glue series]. The one thing that I liked the most about it is that it's so family based. They don't have mothers and fathers in the same way we do. They're really in a community, so parenting is shared between the community.

Yasmin Paige

#11. The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.

Jeremy Hardy

#12. The most important thing about a family is that all the people in it love each other.

Leslea Newman

#13. The great thing about having a small family is that there are fewer people to disappoint.

Dov Davidoff

#14. When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.

Bruno Heller

#15. That's the wonderful thing about the human heart, there's room enough for all kinds of love.

Heather Gudenkauf

#16. What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.

Rooney Mara

#17. Your family are the people who pester you until you do the right thing.

Jeanne Gehret

#18. I'm happy that the sacrificing, the hard training, the travel, the time being away from the family, is going to stop. So I'm happy; I'm glad about that. But I'm also terrified. Frightened. Because, I mean, in my whole adult life, cycling was the most consistent thing I ever did.

Jens Voigt

#19. We have to get the ... the thing I got ... to the Angel. And then he'll tell Door about her family, and he'll tell me how to get home."
Lamia looked at Hunter with delight. "And he can give you brains," she said, cheerfully, "and me a heart.

Neil Gaiman

#20. But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies - about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are - all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. - It is a regular thing

Jane Austen

#21. The best thing about it is that she [Sophia Loren] is the most normal person, and I have the utmost admiration and love for her. I know that she is an icon and an absolute legend, but as a family member, the most beautiful thing is that she is really, really normal.

Sasha Alexander

#22. One thing I always heard from the begining when I talked about this being a movie - was that the rule is that animated movies don't work unless they're Disney movies for kids. Unless they're family movies.

Mike Judge

#23. Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together ... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.

Alan Thicke

#24. The Jewish community is all about love and family, which is the most important thing in my life, too.

Gregg Sulkin

#25. The great thing about coming from where I come from - Liverpool and my family - is that we're very close. I have a great relationship with my siblings and their kids.

David Morrissey

#26. I'm 36 years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. But until I heard the voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.

Ray Kinsella

#27. I love both of you exactly the way you are. I love that you have no filter, and I adore that Gavin can make grown men cry. There is not one thing I would change about either of you, and if anyone doesn't like it, they can kiss my ass. You guys are my life and my family now. Nothing else matters.

Tara Sivec

#28. The hardest thing about moving to California from Connecticut was just missing my family. If I went back, it would be just because I was homesick.

Kevin Nealon

#29. The funny thing about my films is that you can make little piles of them. You could make little piles of the movie that were family movies, you could make a little art movie pile, you could make a little action movie pile.

Julianne Moore

#30. I miss you when you're not there. When you're happy, it makes me happy. But I could say the same thing about Charlie, Jacob. You're family. I love you, but I'm not in love with you.

Stephenie Meyer

#31. I'd actually rather go off with my family. This is another thing you don't advertise about yourself,

Gayle Forman

#32. I'm 100 percent sure this is it. I know that I'll never play in the NHL again. It's not a hard decision. I think the hardest thing is you get a little emotional talking about your family. I couldn't have played any longer than I did and I accomplished what I wanted to.

Chris Chelios

#33. Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing ... to stay alive for them.

Sylvie Meis

#34. What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.

Caitlyn Jenner

#35. For any athlete growing up, the Olympics is the one thing you watch with your family, and it's the one thing you dream about. Seeing your country's flag go up as you get a gold medal is the best thing you can achieve.

Abby Wambach

#36. The thing about families is that you rarely get to choose them since you tend to be born into one and be a part of it. The family, on the other hand, tends to choose you and become a part of you, whether or not you grow to like it or will yourself to want.

Tristan Wood

#37. I really can't say what inspires me the most, because I'm inspired by just about everything. My feelings and relationships, my family, Scooby-Doo. Opinion of my work. Everything. Not just one thing.

Erykah Badu

#38. The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can write things that let them use those talents of association and intuition-all the things they've developed together as a group.

Terry Riley

#39. 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

#40. There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won't stop crying: it is a big baby who won't stop whining about it

Agona Apell

#41. The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them ...

Agatha Christie

#42. I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.

Jodi Picoult

#43. I have a big thing about needing to know that I belong - in my group of friends, in my family, in my industry.

Jenny Slate

#44. Her family... Love and involvement brought joy, but as well could become a hideously heavy millstone slung about one's neck. And the worst was that she felt useless because there was not a mortal thing she could do to help resolve their problems.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#45. Here's the weird thing about the Murdoch family; They believe what they read in the papers.

Matthew Freud

#46. Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read.

Wayne Swan

#47. If you ask anybody about their life, usually the first thing they talk about is how their wife is doing, how their kids are, they don't usually say "My job, my job, my job". It's really true. It's usually about your family.

Julianne Moore

#48. I'm sorry! I just ... I have this thing about opening stuff. I see a door or a lid that's closed, I just gotta open it! Our family therapist says I'm obsessive-compulsive.

Gary Whitta

#49. Marriage can and should be the greatest thing that happens to you in this life, along with having children. We need to make the most of it and work to make it that great experience we dreamed about when we were young.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#50. The power of the unknown fact hit me like a bolt of lightning, that maybe, my father did care about me after all, and I realized another true thing that day: the love of a father is invaluable; regardless of how old you become, or how many bridges you cross in life

Sara Niles

#51. You belong with us. You're the best thing that ever happened to this family."
Surprise filters through me. Okay. Wow.
"You're ours," Easton mumbles. "I'm sorry about tonight. I really am, Ella.

Erin Watt

#52. I'm sort of a Freudian about theater; it's always a struggle between freedom and security, between 'Do I stay where I am with my family because I love them or do I follow the thing that makes my heart feel the greatest?'

Bartlett Sher

#53. The thing about families, Arlo thought, was that there was always some question nobody wanted to answer for you, and it was like a stray thread pulling loose in a sweater. You could tug at it all you wanted, but in the end, all you'd have was a pile of twisted yarn.

Sarah Sullivan

#54. I wouldn't change a thing about my family.

Warwick Davis

#55. 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

#56. It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.

David W. Earle

#57. Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.

Athol Fugard

#58. The thing about my fridge is, it's a family fridge, so there's a little of something everybody likes in there.

Martina Mcbride

#59. I am really good about compartmentalizing and treating my family as one thing and the show or whatever my job as a secondary thing.

Tony Vincent

#60. The thing I love about television is that people watch you in their pajamas, and when they're eating dinner. You're part of the family.

Barbara Feldon

#61. That was the thing about weddings: they forced family members to deal with one another, like it or not.

Jamie Brenner

#62. One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth.

Smokey Robinson

#63. That's what I do this for, to secure my family's future. I don't care about anything else. I'm able to spoil people, and that's the best thing.

Conor McGregor

#64. learn pretty damn fast that everything else is smoke and mirrors. Fame. Money. Success. You realize that life is fleeting and family's what it's all about. It's the only thing that matters.

Brenda Novak

#65. The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

Danny Boyle

#66. The only thing I care about is my family.

Terry Bradshaw

#67. The one [thing about Amish life] that I'm always going to miss is the closeness that I've had with my family. I still talk to them, but I'm an outsider.

Kate Stoltzfus

#68. I use myself as a template for my comedy. So first my background as a Muslim man, my being a doctor, I talk about my family quite a lot, my kids. Anything that resonates with me I talk about. The important thing is it should be able to work in a family setting.

Riaad Moosa

#69. The only thing I don't like about acting is that it takes so much time away from my family. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints.

Mark Wahlberg

#70. The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Calvin Trillin

#71. The thing about depression is that, if you're not the one who's actually suffering from it, there's very little you can do to be proactive. If someone in your family is depressed, all you can really do is send them to the shrink, get them their meds, be gentle, and wait.

Sarah Silverman

#72. My favorite thing about the success I've found is that I get to share it with my family and the ones that I love.

Lindsey Stirling

#73. 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

#74. They can go about collecting every material thing of worldly value, but they're missing everything that truly counts. When you've got nothing else, family means everything to you.

Megan Thomason

#75. For me, it's all about who you are. Some athletes may feel a responsibility. Some may not. One thing I've talked with my family and team about is doing more. Trying to make an impact.

Chris Paul

#76. The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.

Meg Rosoff

#77. What more could you want? How about dominion over this 'beautiful place'? Beauty doesn't last. Friends and family decay. Power is the only thing that goes on forever."
Jack answered with his gut. "No, love goes on forever.

P.C. Cast

#78. A characteristic thing about the aspiring immigrant is the fact that he is not content to progress alone. Solitary success is imperfect success in his eyes. He must take his family with him as he rises.

Mary Antin

#79. Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.

Joyce Carol Oates

#80. Being on a comedy tour is like traveling with family, everyone is all having a great time ... then all of a sudden it turns sour. One thing gets said out of turn, and everyone is on everyone's last nerve. After an hour of silence, we all start laughing about it.

Steve Harvey

#81. When I was just about to leave, and when I realised that I wasn't going to wake up in the morning and do this again - that was probably the hardest thing for me. Leaving this family that I'd created on set, with all the cast and the crew was very sad for me.

Jared Gilman

#82. Maybe the hardest thing about moving over seas was being in a place where no one but your own family had any memory of you. It was like putting yourself back together in little pieces.

Naomi Shibab Nye

#83. The hardest thing about talking to teenagers, I had discovered, was that whatever you said inevitably came across like something an elderly aunt would say at a wedding.

Jojo Moyes

#84. Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.

Roy Clark

#85. The one thing I've learned about family skeletons is that they always have a way of finding the light of day and ending up at the neighborhood garage sale. Alora from The Sapphire Talisman

Brenda Pandos

#86. My mom chooses her battles carefully, and I can tell you one thing about my family. When my mom does say something, she always gets her way.

Stephen Chbosky

#87. You know, I think I'm more of a micro-person, so to me, the context and the framework of trying to do what you love and feel passionate about, in supporting your family in that way, is the most important thing to me.

Joan Cusack

#88. My favorite thing about the holiday season is the lights! I love walking around with family, friends, and a cup of peppermint hot chocolate to look at all the beautiful lights and decorations.

Caroline Sunshine

#89. The one thing that people don't get about GE is that, to the people who work here, it's not a company. It's not just a job. You feel like you're part of a 120-year-old ever-growing, ever-improving family.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

#90. The best thing about my family is my wife. She is a great first lady. I know that sounds not very objective, but that's how I feel. And she's also patient. Putting up with me requires a lot of patience.

George W. Bush

#91. 9/11 revealed that those about to die do not seem afraid or plead for forgiveness for their sins, if they think about them at all. They all have one thing in mind - those they love - and they all do the same thing: They call them up - spouses, family or friends - to tell them they love them.

Eugene Kennedy

#92. I had no one before Rose. No true friends. No family, not really.
Now I have her. I have people I care about. People that I want to protect.
Now I have everything.
The only thing about having everything is that you can lose it all.

Krista Ritchie

#93. I had this thing about hanging out in dark theaters. My family thought I grew out of a rock.

Anthony Edwards

#94. One thing I began to realize in my travels was that everyone I met who was truly successful - whether in business, in philanthropic work, in human rights, in government, or in raising a family - shared one common trait: they were fanatically passionate about the work they did.

Wes Moore

#95. The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.

Rachel Cusk

#96. Cooking for my family is always a pleasure when I'm able to do it. My favorite thing to make is really whatever my kids ask for on any given day. It's more about being with them and doing something together.

Joe Bastianich

#97. The biggest thing that I get most excited about is, my family and I would watch television together, and we weren't just passive viewers. Something would happen, and then we would talk about it. When Will Smith was shot on 'Fresh Prince,' that sparked a conversation about safety.

Jerrod Carmichael

#98. I'm a family guy. Most important thing in my life by far is my relationship with my wife and my sons, daughters-in-law, and 18 grandchildren. And for me, this is all about them.

Mitt Romney

#99. In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#100. That's the best thing about little sisters: They spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters that in the end they're far wiser than the elder ones could ever be.

Gemma Burgess