Family Quotes
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I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
Bear Grylls
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What's really fun is seeing mothers bringing their daughters to the shows. And the best part is the mothers know they don't have to worry about sexual innuendo in the songs. The shows are family shows.
Peter Noone
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I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.
Lesley Garrett
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There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.
Bette Midler
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'If I have said nothing new tonight, it may well be because, in a family of nations as in families of individuals we should expect nothing more sensational than growth.'
Dean Acheson
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Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.
Cherrie Moraga
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Kids feel like they have to puff up or shrink. These reclusive qualities begin to develop because you feel that who you are is going to either be accepted or rejected by your family and friends.
Mahershala Ali
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I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family.
Barbara Walters
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Look at what goes on in our heads when we think about our family or we think about sex. There are things in there that you'd never really say to anybody. You're even ashamed to think it yourself.
John Banville
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I would not have been here if I was not from a political family.
Rahul Gandhi
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I've got an incredible family that I never get to see. I've missed so much. They know how much my career means to me, and they allow me to go and be the workaholic that they never get to see. They support me in that.
Frankie Ballard
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My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.
Dane Cook
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When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.
Jermain Defoe
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Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family.
Bill Toomey
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The joy for me of television is the sort of family feeling of being involved with an ensemble - the cast and the crew and the director of photography and the guys in the camera truck - and you're all coming together. There's a great feeling when that is a successful unit, a successful family.
Jeffrey Pierce
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I'm lucky in that I have close friends and family and my agent to advise me.
Imogen Poots
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Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
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My childhood was completely dominated by Bill Clinton and the OJ trial. I don't think we had a family dinner where one didn't come up.
John Mulaney
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I've made a good amount of money. I'm very happy that I can now support my theatre company and support friends and family, and I'm ready to maybe go back to school and change careers.
David Schwimmer
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I like to hike and play with my dogs and spend time with my family. We go out to family dinners a lot.
Gabby Douglas
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They kept looking at me, as if to say, 'What family is he from?' it was fascinating.
Abe Vigoda
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I'm overjoyed and beyond honored to be a part of the L'Oreal Paris family. I'm such a fan of L'Oreal Paris not just for all of their amazing products, but for what they stand for.
Lea Michele
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We all know about secrets - to have that pressure of something you can't reveal. That's universal: 'Am I safe? Am I gonna be OK? Will my family still love and respect me?'
Jeffrey Tambor
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I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.
A.M. Homes