Quotes about Family

“It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.”

“My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.”

“Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.”

“A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.”

“Faith is something we never discuss at the dinner table in my family, but I do believe in God.”

“At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.”

“A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.”

“I was born into a loving family who was able to provide me with everything.”

“I'm half Telugu. My mom is Telugu and dad, a Maharashtrian. I was brought up in Gwalior. I was exposed to English, Hindi, and Marathi. I heard my mom speak to her family in Telugu, so I got the hang of it.”

“My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My family knew a lot of great folk musicians of the time, like Woody Guthrie, Paul Robeson, Leadbelly. They were all people we knew.”

“Divorce is never a nice thing, but it's very easy to take family for granted, and when there's a divorce, you don't take things for granted so much.”

“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.”

“My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.”

“I love Scotland; I love the NHS. I was born into the NHS; I grew up in the NHS. My family grew up in the NHS.”

“I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname; it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands.”

“We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.”

“A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.”

“I keep my family involved in all business.”

“I got a big Filipino family. That's what I love about being Pinoy: we all gotta surround ourselves with family; we all gotta laugh and do things together. I love it! It's family first.”

“We are one people with one family. We all live in the same house... and through books, through information, we must find a way to say to people that we must lay down the burden of hate. For hate is too heavy a burden to bear.”

“If God created the family, He should be the ultimate definer of what it is, and that should be our point of reference.”