Family Quotes
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Looking back, I remember my family laughing a lot. We were never the kind of people that dwelled on hard times. My family laughs when things are tough. Growing up like that, I got used to making jokes about things that were difficult. So when I started doing stand-up, that's what I went towards.
Cristela Alonzo
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Being in a band is a really magical thing because you've got a family and you operate as this one entity. It's very democratic; everyone is involved in the output. But within that, there can be a lot of disagreements and strife.
Jenny Lewis
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
Jackie Chan
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It's great to see that kind of support online. For people to be messaging myself, my nan and the rest of my family, all the support has been great.
Adam Peaty
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I'm not one about trying to slow things down. What I try to do is create an atmosphere for my family where we can pretty much have whatever.
Jada Pinkett Smith
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My daughter, I'm proud to say, is senior vice president of ABC Family network. She could hire and fire me. She has hired me, but she has not fired me.
Jessica Walter
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I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family.
Rafael Nadal
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Everyone in my family is a hero to me.
Christy Romano
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From 2002-2008, Planned Parenthood received $342 million in federal taxpayer money through Title X funding alone. With these funds, Planned Parenthood has provided women throughout the U.S. with important family planning and contraceptive services as well as screening for breast and cervical cancers for low-income women.
Lisa Murkowski
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When I was growing up, I was very lucky. My family was the most important thing to me. They provided me with somewhere safe to grow and learn, and I know I was fortunate not to have been confronted by serious adversity at a young age.
Kate Middleton
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Alibaba is Alibaba. We are going to keep on, you know, having Alibaba as our core company in our family.
Masayoshi Son
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I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?
Mary Pipher
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I like to stay home with my family.
Mads Mikkelsen
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I want all my friends, family and fans to know that I am in good spirits and I will be fine.
Lil' Kim
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We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.
Jonathan Sacks
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The older I get, the more I appreciate the idea of being thrown together with a group of people you might have a lot in common with, or nothing at all. You don't have the option of doing anything other than making your family relationships work - forever. I like that.
Kate Klise
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Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.
Jeremy Lin
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As a child, we visited the San Juan Islands during the summer. Kayaking, big family meals, playing on the beach - great memories!
Zoe McLellan
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I'm a social person, and I'm used to working as a band member. I like that. I like being a part of a family onstage and on the road.
Sara Bareilles
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People come up to me and talk about the alcoholism in their family.
Frank McCourt
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The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.
F. Sionil Jose
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My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.
Cristela Alonzo
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Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.
Natalie Portman
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I really wanted to do 'Modern Family,' and I really liked the script, and I liked the people.
Craig T. Nelson