Quotes about Family

“I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family.”

“My family is more important than my party.”

“We've got a younger fan base - and their parents. One day when we were at Abbey Road, an entire family was outside waiting for us - like, a nine-year-old, a 16-year-old, and their mother. They can agree on liking us for whatever reason. It's kind of strange.”

“I love pizza. I want to marry it, but it would just be to eat her family at the wedding.”

“I gave all I had. Now I want to enjoy my family.”

“We are very excited about welcoming a new member of the family, a daughter!”

“I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three plays about the Kennedy family, and actors would traditionally play JFK like they Hamlet or King Lear. They just would. I mean, people have played JFK, and they'll play him long after I have.”

“I can buy anything I want now. It hasn't changed me personally. It just changed what I can do for myself and my family.”

“My family wasn't involved in the college. They were more of just your 'white trash' kind of family. And so I have that kind of background, but I always kind of aspired to be something else, and I made a lot of different friends over the years that were passing through.”

“We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their families. We need to change this, and we can easily do that.”

“My entire family were Democrats all our lives. But because how furious I was about the previous administration, I turned in my card to become a Republican. I did not want to be known as a Democrat under that person's regime.”

“My whole life has been nothing but trying to find a way to take care of my mom and take care of my family as quickly as possible.”

“I learned a lot of lessons growing up on my family's farm on the Eastern Shore: the dignity of hard work, the importance of planning ahead, and the joy you get from serving others. Not to mention how to collect eggs, shear a sheep, and bail hay by hand.”

“I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.”

“I was born into an artistic family, and they understood me. But they were really worried, because some of the stuff I did was dangerous. If I'd been caught without the veil with a shaved head, I don't know what would have happened.”

“Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.”

“I don't come from a family that had the money to put me through college, so I left school with $100,000 in student loan debt.”

“The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.”

“I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.”

“I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.”

“I try to keep in mind that it's a long journey. It's not a race. It's about staying focused, continuing to do good work, make my family and community proud; that's all I really want to do... and pay my bills.”