Family Quotes
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My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America seems to have no problem with that.
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My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.
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I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.
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You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.
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I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.
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I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.
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I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.
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Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.
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Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.
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When family ties are disturbed, devoted children arise.
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I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.
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I pray for forgiveness. For help and guidance. To be a better person. For the health of my family. For the world to be a better place.
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I know that life is much more than football. We have family and it's all about being happy and healthy.
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Where does a child of mine get all that hair, I wonder? Arthur’s not exceptionally hirsute, and the men on my side of the family are as bald as potatoes. I must have had an affair with a gorilla before he was born, but you’d think I’d remember something like that, wouldn’t you? ... Be a dear and remind me to leave my brandy flask at home the next time I visit the zoo.
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I come from an old establishment family from Singapore.
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Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
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Thousand years ago, we all descended from Africans who left the continent. Those ancestors, we will never know their name. We can go back 200 or 300 years and actually populate your family tree with real people who had names and documents. They had customs, characteristics that, unbeknownst to you, you have inherited. Almost through osmosis it has been passed down to you.
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This forest was immense. It stretched away uninterruptedly to the north, till stopped by having got to the shores of the Baltic. We had it all to ourselves. Unnoticed, except by what Johann called finches, we passed along its vistas, and no human eye beheld the capes, the coronets and the cockades. In that past which seemed to me at my age remote, these things had all been new and spick and span, because of the glory which for a time was the portion of the family; and when, having risen and blazed, the glory at last faded out, it left a litter behind it, in every stage of decomposition, for the ultimate use, so it appeared, of one small foreign girl and one small indigenous dachshund.
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Away from shooting, well, I always want to spend time with my family and being at home.
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A lot of my family were teachers, so that's what I always thought I'd end up being.
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I grew up in Rhode Island. Most of my family on both sides is from Rhode Island.
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I'm not familiar with an unaccepting family. But in my profession, nothing can be foreign.
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There was nobody in my family who knew anything about the film industry. I'm from the west of Scotland. It's not exactly a mecca for filmmaking. I think I saw Rab C. Nesbitt in Asda once, but that was about it.
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Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.
