Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.
~By LeBron James ~
There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.
~By Juice Newton ~
Family is not an important thing, it's everything.
~By Michael J. Fox ~
My family is my strength and my weakness.
~By Aishwarya Rai ~
The dream was not to put one black family in the White house, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
~By Al Sharpton ~
I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.
~By Maria Shriver ~
I was born into a family of preachers.
~By David Soul ~
I mean, I would never want to do anything to hurt my family, but then again I would never want to do anything to hurt myself. And I think they go hand in hand.
~By Lauren Bush ~
I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.
~By Martin Short ~
I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.
~By Ed Harris ~
I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy.
~By Rachael Leigh Cook ~
Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.
~By James Levine ~
I'm the youngest in my family, and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh.
~By Lisa Kudrow ~
In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.
~By John Lasseter ~
I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions.
~By Pete du Pont ~
When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.
~By Pia Toscano ~
Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.
~By Susan Lieberman ~
We use tools such as email, not just as a way to keep in daily touch with family members who live in other cities, but also as a way to keep in touch with staff and members of the public.
~By Tipper Gore ~
Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way.
~By Niklas Zennstrom ~
I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.
~By Lesley Garrett ~
As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
~By Frances Conroy ~
I'd always done family-friendly stuff. I wanted to do a film where I could show my darker side and make people uncomfortable.
~By Melissa Joan Hart ~
I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
~By Novalis ~
I come from a pretty strange family.
~By Illeana Douglas ~
A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
~By Katharine Butler Hathaway ~
Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.
~By Holly Hunter ~
The government is becoming the family of last resort.
~By Jerry Brown ~
I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.
~By Jane Birkin ~
But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing... this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives - relationships and family. To me, it's always an interesting area to mine. I'm drawn to it.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
~By Robert M. Hutchins ~
So I would dance and she would sing, and it was kind of a family thing. Performing was part of our world.
~By Liza Minelli ~
The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world.
~By Richard G. Scott ~
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
~By Malcolm De Chazal ~
The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
~By C. J. Cherryh ~
Holidays are the best. I couldn't imagine being from a small family.
~By Kim Kardashian ~
A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
~By Patrick Marber ~
My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.
~By Jack Scalia ~
The whole family is tight. We all really love each other.
~By Kieran Culkin ~
I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
~By Dan Quayle ~
I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.
~By Ja Rule ~
I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.
~By Carl Karcher ~
The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
~By Mac Thornberry ~
I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother.
~By Pierre Loti ~
A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.
~By James H. Douglas ~
My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.
~By Emma Bonino ~
It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.
~By Tipper Gore ~
We don't have titles on our business cards. No one really gets any special treatment. No one gets a corner office to put pictures of their family and their dog in.
~By Jay Chiat ~
I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.
~By Al Roker ~
And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
~By Bob Geldof ~
I want to be here, for my family. I want to be here for my baby. I want to see the birth of my baby.
~By Jayson Williams ~
My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.
~By Henry Fonda ~
I just love where I am right now in my career. I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre. I've been able to have a solid career that we've built one step at a time and a family. I know that I'm in a good place.
~By Martina McBride ~
One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
~By Ralph Fiennes ~
The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family.
~By Wilford Brimley ~
I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family.
~By Walter Cronkite ~
My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
~By Kate Clinton ~
After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.
~By Charles Perrault ~
However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.
~By Steven Chu ~
It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.
~By Nicolas Cage ~
The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.
~By Sergio Aragones ~
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy.
~By Andrew Morton ~
I mean, there's a little bit that gets out, but for the most part, the thing that makes us work, and makes our family successful, and our life successful, is when we walk home and we walk into our doors of our house, all that other stuff is left outside. It's not a factor.
~By Tim McGraw ~
If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.
~By David McCallum ~
I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.
~By Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ~
We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.
~By Darius Rucker ~
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.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.
~By Brad Bird ~
I don't think anyone has a normal family.
~By Edward Furlong ~
And maybe that's being the third child, although my entire family are very resilient - very, very resilient.
~By Lynn Redgrave ~
I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills.
~By Marcy Kaptur ~
Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside.
~By Brian Ferneyhough ~
That's always at the heart and soul of Disney's features, the feeling of a family values.
~By Tia Carrere ~
Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.
~By Lynne Cheney ~
Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.
~By Dustin Hoffman ~
We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
~By Harold Taylor ~
No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.
~By William J. Brennan, Jr. ~
Everyone feels like family and I am back in the city that I love.
~By Chris Noth ~
Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.
~By Alan Dundes ~
I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too.
~By Mike Myers ~
I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family. Fourteen years have given me a lot and I can't thank God and the industry enough.
~By Akshay Kumar ~
A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.
~By Hugh Sidey ~
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.
~By George Porter ~
I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.
~By Todd Akin ~
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.
~By Janet Jackson ~
I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.
~By Perry Como ~
Jack doesn't belong anymore to just a family. He belongs to the country.
~By Joseph P. Kennedy ~
I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.
~By Candace Cameron ~
In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.
~By Fanny Burney ~
Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
~By Barbara Bush ~
My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.
~By Quincy Jones ~
When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.
~By Mack R. Douglas ~
You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.
~By Robin Yount ~
There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.
~By C. Everett Koop ~
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