Family Quotes
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When I get home from a heavy work day, I make sure I get outside with the kids. I don't think there's any better cure than being active as a family outside.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
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Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.
Jeffrey Kluger
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Before 'Y Tu Mama,' I did 16 movies that only my family got to see because I invited them to the premiere.
Diego Luna
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My mother has always kept the entire family together - my dad, due to his business, has always been travelling, and hence, she at times had to play the role of a father and a mother as well.
Karan Patel
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I like composing music, but I love being with my family.
Ennio Morricone
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My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.
Jet Li
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I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.
Alexi Giannoulias
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Houses of worship can be the heart of a community. They can be the cradle of a family. They can be places where our children go to learn, not just faith, but to make friends. They build connections. They are essential to a healthy America. And every community deserves the right to have those houses of worship operate in safety and peace.
Loretta Lynch
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When I visited Vietnam for Oxfam, the thing that really struck me was how the local farmers had to prepare to evacuate or climb to their mezzanines with their valuable family possessions.
Martin Parr
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I would venture to guess that if I was a construction worker... who requested a transfer to another department for the betterment of his family, I would be commended for it. But because it's sports, there's just so much passion added to it.
Derek Fisher
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I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.
Jose Saramago
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My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.
David Sedaris
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We've all grown up with 'Ozzie and Harriet,' 'Father Knows Best,' 'Eight Is Enough.' White families have always represented the universal family.
Joe Morton
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The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection.
Lactantius
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Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.
Edwidge Danticat
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My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.
Christine Taylor
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The reason Jeb Bush is not doing well is because of his name. He is part of a long establishment Republican family, and this is not going well with the Republican Party.
Lois Frankel
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Being a figure skater myself and knowing what it took for my parents to get up at five in the morning to drive me to the rink before school and then drive me to practice after school - it's a huge commitment for any family.
Allison Janney
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My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.
Johnny Vegas
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According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict that the next big wars will be over water. Nevertheless, the average American family blissfully consumes 300 gallons a day, when you add in watering the lawn and washing dishes, clothes, and cars.
Alex Shoumatoff
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A family member of mine was diagnosed with lymphoma, and the treatment they're getting wouldn't exist if it weren't for the work that Team in Training does. I want to support them.
Colin Egglesfield
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God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.
Oswald Chambers
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When I first came out, holidays were hard. I reached a point where I didn't go home anymore. I constructed my own, kind of like, family group around Christmas.
Dee Rees
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The family is not just the basic unit of society; it is the basic unit of eternity.
M. Russell Ballard