I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it.
~By Joseph Greenberg ~
For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
~By Jessica Lange ~
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
~By Richard Bach ~
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
~By Margaret Mead ~
My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers.
~By Stevie Nicks ~
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.
~By Anthony Holden ~
Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing.
~By Abdul Qadeer Khan ~
I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career as an actor and taking time out for my husband and family help to cushion a lot of the blows.
~By Marlo Thomas ~
The things that make me happy most are my family and working.
~By Damon Albarn ~
I've been here for nine years, and over that time, these people have become like my family.
~By Jerry Lawler ~
I think those who invest in mutual funds want someone else to do the thinking for them. But the fact that they can move the money around the family of mutual funds just through a phone call lets them feel that they can play tycoons.
~By Ron Chernow ~
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
~By Lisa Bonet ~
They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldn't be.
~By Charlotte Church ~
If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.
~By Paul D. Boyer ~
If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.
~By Edwin Land ~
I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.
~By Dick Bruna ~
I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.
~By Joely Fisher ~
I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.
~By Sandra Cisneros ~
My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.
~By Bobby Darin ~
I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream alive for every family and I share the concern about rising tuition costs.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.
~By Ed Harris ~
A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.
~By Jim Bunning ~
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.
~By Alessandro Del Piero ~
I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote "In Contempt" was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.
~By Christopher Darden ~
I reluctantly left the series because a) my age. I'm 68 tomorrow and time is very precious for me to spend time at home with my family and especially with the grandchildren. They're aged 7 and 5. After three years I became homesick for my home.
~By Richard Briers ~
My family, my parents are hippies.
~By Shia LaBeouf ~
I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.
~By Jane Smiley ~
I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.
~By George Clooney ~
One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today.
~By Paul Prudhomme ~
Jason's got a family, so it's difficult for us to get together.
~By Jeremy London ~
Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.
~By Julie Walters ~
My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.
~By George J. Mitchell ~
Except for me, no one in my family could draw.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.
~By Bruno Bauer ~
Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue.
~By Rosa DeLauro ~
Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
~By T. E. Lawrence ~
The other thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your family, it doesn't matter if it's a recession or not, you can include that in your quality of life.
~By Jim Fowler ~
We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.
~By Zinedine Zidane ~
I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.
~By Jill Clayburgh ~
The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it.
~By Marguerite Moreau ~
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household.
~By Anthea Turner ~
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
~By August Strindberg ~
Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.
~By Rosabeth Moss Kanter ~
We stayed there 24 hours a day. We lived and ate and slept that movie. We were enthusiastic, not just because of the movie, but because we had such a great collaborative team. We had a really good time. It was very much a family.
~By John Dykstra ~
Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries.
~By Lauren Ambrose ~
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
~By V. S. Pritchett ~
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
~By Chanakya ~
And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.
~By Damon Wayans ~
If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.
~By Hulagu Khan ~
I didn't tell anybody about my plan because I was convinced my family or friends would stop me. I didn't think much about what would happen afterwards.
~By Mathias Rust ~
I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.
~By Jenny McCarthy ~
Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed.
~By Prince Andrew ~
Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
~By Barbara Bush ~
The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world.
~By Richard G. Scott ~
Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
~By Bernice Weissbourd ~
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
~By Leon Kass ~
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
~By Thomas Mann ~
The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.
~By Patricia Richardson ~
I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.
~By Rob Lowe ~
I tell her all the time I'd gladly retire and hang out with the kids and clean the house. I want to have a good life and great family, and from a professional standpoint I want to be successful, but it's not the most important thing at all.
~By Nick Lachey ~
I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of.
~By Hugh Jackman ~
We don't have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit.
~By Dixie Carter ~
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 ~
Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today.
~By Annette Funicello ~
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 ~
Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.
~By Mario Andretti ~
My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.
~By Casey Affleck ~
For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.
~By Andrei Sakharov ~
Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.
~By Stephen Carter ~
My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.
~By Tony Visconti ~
This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. I thought it was a great idea to have a mouse like that in your family, so now I get to see what it was like.
~By Geena Davis ~
I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant.
~By Leah Ward Sears ~
Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.
~By Grace Kelly ~
I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family.
~By Catherine Helen Spence ~
It definitely puts a strain on family life - I miss them like mad. Being a working mother I've been juggling house and career from day one. I want to hold out for telly for the second half of the year.
~By Louise Jameson ~
There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village.
~By Roma Downey ~
Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
Oh, you know, driving around, coming to a stop sign and an entire family, from 8 to 80, will be looking at me with that Dr. Evil look - pinkie on the mouth.
~By Mike Myers ~
I don't like staying in hotels. I like to be in my own bed. San Diego as a city is really awesome. The only hard part of it for me is that I'm away from my family and my house. But as far as shooting down there, we get amazing locations, and the crew is really, really stellar down there. They are really fun.
~By Kristen Bell ~
Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.
~By Daniel Smith ~
Allowing children to spew forth whatever is on their minds in the name of openness only creates an illusion of family closeness.
~By Neil Kurshan ~
I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.
~By Terry Zwigoff ~
Of course, my family has been a big reason for me to come back, especially my son who loves the game of hockey - he was a big reason for me coming back.
~By Mario Lemieux ~
Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.
~By Wes Borland ~
House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?
~By Bill Pascrell ~
I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.
~By Randy Harrison ~
I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them.
~By Pete Best ~
Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend.
~By Susannah York ~
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.
~By Michael Douglas ~
I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother and my family was to stay open to the experience, and learn whatever I could at every step of the way as it was going on.
~By Patti Davis ~
I came from a big family - two brothers and two sisters. So, there were always a ton of boys around and a ton of girls around. So, I grew up comfortable with both sexes.
~By Blake Lively ~
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