Top 100 With My Family Quotes
#1. One of the reasons my father ... became a dentist was so he could always be home for dinner and spend weekends with his family. At one point he had thought about being a musician, but he said, I'm not going to do that because I'd be on the road all the time and I wouldn't be with my family.
Dean Ornish
#3. I would love to have more kids. Kids are the best part of my day. I don't wake up to make movies. I wake up to hang out with my family.
Reese Witherspoon
#4. I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.
Zubin Mehta
#5. Being at home with my family always inspires me. I find it hard to be inspired when I'm on the move. I'm not creative when I'm jet-lagged and sleeping in strange hotels.
Stefon Harris
#6. Growing up, I used to watch 'Happy Days,' 'Laverne & Shirley,' 'All in the Family.' Those were the shows I watched growing up with my family. And, believe it or not, 'McMillan and Wife' and 'Columbo.'
Mark Pellegrino
#7. I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn't sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time
but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was "productive." Time spend with my family and friends was never wasted.
Gretchen Rubin
#8. I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
Rachel Platten
#10. She was a very unhappy person most of her life. She went to hospitals all the time. All kinds of hospitals. Finally, she went to a hospital that helped her figure things out enough to try and make things normal, so she moved in with my family.
Stephen Chbosky
#11. I am always exhausted; I am always trying to find more time to be with my family, which is why they travel with me so much.
John Tesh
#12. What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.
David Guterson
#13. What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.'
David Rubenstein
#14. I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.
Liam Neeson
#15. Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn't know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren't emailing each other.
Mark Batterson
#16. My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.
Joel Osteen
#17. Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I spend a lot of my spare time with my family playing tennis, biking and rollerblading.
Irene Rosenfeld
#18. I grew up camping with my family. We took so many trips. We had an RV, actually, when we were growing up. We did a ton of camping trips and went across the country.
Kirsten Lepore
#19. I'm thankful to God for having a family that's been there for me. He's been there from the time I was a child to even now with my family helping with my little boy. It's worth more than words could ever describe. That's one of the ways I've been able to stay grounded is thanks to family and God.
Ashton Shepherd
#20. I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I'm whispering it, because I'm a quarter Jewish and afraid it's all going to be taken away.
Helen Hunt
#21. Wherever I go, there's always a child, an old woman, that comes to me and wants to meet me. Not because I am famous but because they suffered with my family.
Elian Gonzalez
#22. I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.
Mark Hamill
#23. If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough ... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.
Harlan Coben
#24. When I go back to France now I spend all the my time with press and sponsors. I do not have a lot of time to spend at home with my family.
Jean Alesi
#25. After a great deal of thought and discussions with my family, I have decided not to seek re-election in 2014. Politics shouldn't be a career, and I never intended to make it one.
Jon Runyan
#26. I stay with my family. I try to be a good husband and good dad. That's my real life.
Omar Sy
#27. It's the boring things that mean a lot to me. I enjoy taking my sisters to eat. Or sitting watching TV with my family.
David Archuleta
#28. I'll make you a promise, Bodee. Long as you're with my family, you won't run out of Kool-Aid." "And I promise you, I'll stop whoever's hurting you ... even if it's you.
Courtney C. Stevens
#29. I am more likely to end up romantically involved with his cat them him.'
The glee falls offer her face, You - what? Gosh, if I'd known you had a thing for long-haired Persians, I'd have set you up with my family's landlord.
Kiersten White
#30. If I don't need the money, I don't work. I'm going to spend time with my family and friends, and I'm going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.
James Spader
#32. I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
Jaclyn Smith
#33. As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.
Dan Stevens
#34. I was pretty quiet as a child. I kind of hung out with my family and listened to music and sh*t. I wasn't too outgoing at all.
James Hetfield
#35. I like to stay home with my family. But travel is good in a way. It makes you redefine each other each time you see each other. Also, it helps that I think my wife is the hottest woman in the world.
Mads Mikkelsen
#36. I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.
Candace Cameron Bure
#37. There are big parts of my life that I don't share. I don't share myself eating dinner with my family. I don't talk about who I'm dating. That's private; that's me.
Ansel Elgort
#38. I always expected to be working construction with my family, so every day I get to travel the world and have fun with my friends is a bonus. I really enjoy pushing myself and so does my wife.
Travis Pastrana
#39. My wife is way funnier than I am. As much as I don't really feel I share a sense of humour with my family, I definitely share one with her - we find the same things funny.
Steve Carell
#40. Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.
Daniel Smith
#41. My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.
Carla Bruni
#42. I just like being able to spend time with my family.
Paula Creamer
#43. I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
Taylor Lautner
#44. Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.
Natalia Vodianova
#45. I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
Adam Hicks
#46. I'm so happy with my family, my career and my friends, and I'd like for them to be here forever, so I guess loss is what scares me the most.
Jared Padalecki
#47. I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.
Yo-Yo Ma
#48. Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#49. My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.
Uzo Aduba
#50. I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.
Iman
#51. JOURNEY: ...no one messes with my family without suffering the consequences.
Bijou Hunter
#52. I took a long time off to have my baby and spend time with my family.
Kelly Preston
#53. Mostly, I just like to write music and spend time with my family and friends and jam.
Aubrey Peeples
#54. I want to hang out with my friends. I want to hang out with my family - well, I sometimes want to hang out with my family!
Dakota Johnson
#55. I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun.
Brandi Chastain
#56. I first came to China as a child on a visit with my family in 1978.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#57. On 3 things in his bucket list: On my bucket list ... Uhm, the question is totally catching me by surprise. Some more travel, spending quality time with my family and just getting the most I can out of my wife and daughter.
Gabriel Macht
#58. Some of the things that have been the most meaningful to me have been experiences I've shared with my family.
Kathleen Battle
#59. In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.
Brett Favre
#60. I love the company of people. I always have and always will, it comes with my family. But earlier in life I might have got a little nervous if I was alone for a day or two in a row. I might think, "Where are they?" Now, I just go on doing naturally what I do.
Jack Nicholson
#61. I will continue to pursue my music and live my life with my family.
Chris Daughtry
#62. I longed to not withhold love when it was inconvenient to give it. Those faces [of her children] helped motivate me to want to know Jesus well, and to live near Him and listen to His Spirit as I walked in faith with my family.
Kara Tippetts
#63. I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.
Khaled Hosseini
#64. I wish that when we weren't filming, we could have full privacy. I wish I could live in a bubble and just be with my family.
Kourtney Kardashian
#65. I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family.
Billy Graham
#66. During the week, my days are consumed with school commitments, play-dates and work for Baby Buggy, a nonprofit I started, which collects kids' gear for parents in need. So on weekends, I look forward to uninterrupted time with my family.
Jessica Seinfeld
#67. First and foremost, I am a mom. I get the most fulfillment being with my family.
Mallika Chopra
#68. That's where the challenge has been. Balancing football and life. Trying not to replay every play in my head while I'm with my family. Sometimes, I've done it well. Other times, I haven't.
Chad Pennington
#69. While I live with my family in South Florida, I enjoy visiting New York and always appreciate seeing so many Univision fans.
Raul De Molina
#70. My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the station in Jackson, bound for Memphis.
Alan Huffman
#71. At 83, if I were enjoying life any more I couldn't stand it! My fast-walks, gym work, mountain hiking and interplay long-distance with my family are the basis of my happiness. My writings reflect my work and life experiences, education and research and covers about 75 years.
Jerry Lemonds
#72. I've had fun doing romantic comedies, but I just can't anymore. There's nothing fulfilling creatively, there's nowhere to grow, nothing to learn from it or for yourself. I'd rather just be home with my family or write music until that special project comes my way.
Mandy Moore
#73. I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.
Wolfgang Puck
#74. If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.
Olafur Eliasson
#75. Growing up with my family gave me some of my best memories. I'd like to have a family of my own - slip away for a bit and do nothing but spend those early years with my children.
Katherine Jenkins
#76. I wasn't being followed around by paparazzi all the time. I was able to be a kid and spend that time with my family and not grow up too quickly.
Danielle Fishel
#77. When I came back from filming 'Abduction', I told my agent: I'm staying in London now. If it takes doing children's theater from the back of a van in Kilburn, that's OK. I need to be with my family. My job is to keep the family together and provide for them.
Jason Isaacs
#78. After I had my youngest son,I took time for him and just spent more time with my family. But, I know it's time to get back to work. I am working on new music.
Heather Headley
#79. A lot of people think I'm under a lot of pressure with my family and friends spending all that money to follow me around
Bonnie Blair
#80. I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.
Mary Jo Putney
#81. Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.
Keith Urban
#82. I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.
Richie Sambora
#83. So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.
Ruben Blades
#84. Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.
Clive Owen
#85. With my family, historical facts are subsidiary to narrative, and narrative must always show the narrator in the best light.
Stuart Rojstaczer
#86. I have a real hunger to experience life. I'm really, really inspired by my family. I grew up with my family, really did a lot; we took a lot of road trips, we did a lot of different businesses, we'd always tried stuff. For me, that just kind of sparked something from the time I was a kid.
Omar Benson Miller
#87. I had a lot of conversations with my family, my close friends, with my pastor, with God, and kind of came to a revelation that maybe I should be honest with myself about who I am and let that person - this woman who has lived inside me for my entire life - finally have an opportunity to live.
Caitlyn Jenner
#88. There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway.
Roger Zelazny
#90. And that's where I'm finally at today - my life is about being with my family. This is what's important.
Aron Ralston
#91. Growing up, it was about finding a way to entertain myself outdoors. We spent all the summers on the beach, camping with my family a bunch, and traveling as much as we could. My parents wouldn't let me watch too much TV growing up or play video games, or anything like that.
Stephen Colletti
#92. I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.
Dan Stevens
#93. I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more time with my friends, more time with my family, my extended family. I always want to read more books.
Connie Nielsen
#94. I have always said to myself, 'I never want to say I'm leaving a job because I want to spend more time with my family.' I feel sorry for people when they say that. But my advice to them is that you shouldn't have taken the job in the first place.
Louis Freeh
#95. To be so superfocused and honed in on one thing can be good because then you get what you're supposed to get done, done but you also miss out on other things. I could have spent more time with my family, and a million other little things.
Joan Jett
#96. I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.
Mary J. Blige
#97. I'd actually rather go off with my family. This is another thing you don't advertise about yourself,
Gayle Forman
#98. I am a very keen photographer. I have enjoyed taking pictures since I was a kid with my family, but I became more serious about it at university.
Ren Ng
#99. I do have a nickname with my family; I'm called Snappy, because I do get to be a bit snippy at times. They call me Snappy Bear. That's from New Hampshire. My dad's called Crazy, my mother's Happy - it's a whole thing.
Eliza Coupe
#100. My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
Karen Fairchild
