Quotes about Family

“My father was a San Francisco firefighter. He also was an amateur artist. Art ran deep on his side of the family, which originated in Spain. He painted our portraits. My mom, Jacqueline, was Scots-Irish. They met in 1947 when dad played for the Houston Buffalos, a minor league baseball team affiliated with the St. Louis Cardinals.”

“The physical DNA has always been part of our family. My dad was a good boxer and gymnast; my mum is a ballroom dancer, and my brother does martial arts.”

“I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'”

“Growing up in Chicago is hard. I'd say 80 percent of the people ain't really got no daddies. Their household wasn't right. All they know is the streets and getting some money to support each other and support their family.”

“I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.”

“My wife Maya Bhate is from Pune. My daughters Diya and Keya, and I, are regular visitors to the city, since her family is based here.”

“As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.”

“Work is work, but family is for life. That's what really matters to me.”

“I've come from a grounded family and had a good upbringing.”

“All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.”

“I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God's eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.”

“If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.”

“I have a great life, amazing family and friends, so it's easy for people to be like, 'What have you got to be sad about?' But it's not that; it's a chemical imbalance in your brain that sometimes needs to be treated.”

“I am very close to my family. I have learned a lot from my father. He used to tell me to be honest with yourself and not to argue with your seniors. You don't need to be involved in any quarrel, as sometimes you need to remain silent intelligently.”

“Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.”

“The Neighbours cast is like a second family.”

“I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.”

“The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.”

“I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.”

“Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.”

“Environment does shape you. My environment, in a pit family, in a pit village, with nine kids in total.”