This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.
~By Kenny Marchant ~
I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
~By Olivier Martinez ~
I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.
~By Moon Unit Zappa ~
I love my family.
~By Manute Bol ~
Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side.
~By William Wiley ~
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 ~
We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure.
~By Jena Malone ~
I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.
~By Les Brown ~
I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.
~By Donna Mills ~
There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
~By Norman Lear ~
Let us tackle the big issues with bold ideas that transform Iowa to accomplish our shared mission to grow Iowa, and realize our shared vision of Iowa as the best place to live, work and raise a family.
~By Thomas Vilsack ~
Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it.
~By Andy Hertzfeld ~
Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.
~By John H. Speke ~
I was sad to see anybody leave, we had a very nice family on that show. I was very sad to see momma go, Victoria and especially Linda. My god that was my wife on the show, in fact my wife calls her wife.
~By Larry Hagman ~
I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.
~By Bjork ~
I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
~By Patrick Warburton ~
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 ~
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
~By Alex Haley ~
Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.
~By Bob Ehrlich ~
One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.
~By Julius Erving ~
I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.
~By Sonia Braga ~
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.
~By Igor Stravinsky ~
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
~By Ulysses S. Grant ~
My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.
~By Peter Gallagher ~
After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.
~By Suzy Bogguss ~
My two favorite things about being a pro player are Sunday afternoons being able to excite many fans and the money because I get to treat my family and friends and myself to nice things.
~By Dante Hall ~
I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction.
~By Donald Johanson ~
I just have a lot of respect for Terry and his family. He played without a mask, and his life was tragically ended. And it just means a lot to me to be up there with him and the other greats that have played that long.
~By Ed Belfour ~
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
~By Ashley Montagu ~
I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.
~By Max Cannon ~
I definitely have a family. I have a boyfriend who has kids, and we do normal things every day, like get up and go to school. Eat breakfast, lunch and dinner.
~By Tina Yothers ~
I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.
~By Danny Glover ~
I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.
~By Martin Short ~
The family ties between hundreds of thousands of German families and their American relatives led many to think that America would never join a second war against Germany.
~By Julius Streicher ~
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 ~
At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous.
~By Paula Danziger ~
What I got out of it was a great experience working with great people and it becoming a tremendous - basically - a family at the end that none of us wanted to leave.
~By Shane West ~
We have it, we're lucky enough that we've created a show where it's not about... a family, or a kid, it's about a town.
~By Trey Parker ~
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 ~
It was a wealthy family, and they heard me talk about movies, and they told me I should go into movies. That's the benefit of hanging out with rich people; they have no sense of what is or isn't possible.
~By Michael Patrick Jann ~
I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.
~By Kristen Bell ~
Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.
~By Alexis Korner ~
If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.
~By Joe DiMaggio ~
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
~By Billy Joel ~
The whole thing means such a great deal for me, and hopefully one day it will be there. But my friends and my family mean a little more. I would rather be helping them, even if it hurts that.
~By Michael Irvin ~
Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.
~By Mike Honda ~
People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.
~By Jim Valvano ~
I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family.
~By Grete Waitz ~
It's more than just high quality food for the family table; it's growing the food in a way that does not harm the environment. That gives me emotional well-being that is important to me.
~By Robert Patterson ~
Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.
~By Earl Wilson ~
My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.
~By Hugh Leonard ~
Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?
~By Asa Gray ~
I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
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 ~
My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
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 ~
Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.
~By Martha Reeves ~
I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.
~By Julie Andrews ~
After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.
~By Victoria de los Angeles ~
I really miss Gunsmoke. It was like losing my whole family.
~By Ken Curtis ~
The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69.
~By Jonathan Carroll ~
Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.
~By Thomas Bowdler ~
Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue.
~By Prince Andrew ~
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 ~
I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.
~By Jeff Foxworthy ~
I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.
~By Richard Attenborough ~
The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.
~By Ginny B. Waite ~
I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.
~By Bob Balaban ~
Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.
~By Jeff Bingaman ~
I state for the record that I have never sought funds from any POW family, nor led them to believe in any way that we were going on a mission to rescue their specific missing loved one.
~By Bo Gritz ~
Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, that's 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.
~By Kazuo Ishiguro ~
We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
~By Dan Quayle ~
What's really fun is seeing mothers bringing their daughters to the shows. And the best part is the mothers know they don't have to worry about sexual innuendo in the songs. The shows are family shows.
~By Peter Noone ~
My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.
~By Lisa Bonet ~
When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
~By LaToya Jackson ~
In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.
~By Doc Hastings ~
I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.
~By Sanford I. Weill ~
Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.
~By Sam Sheppard ~
I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.
~By Barry Gibb ~
I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn't work out. After 22 months we got an annulment. Then I married an Italian girl, which resulted in an immediate annulment. I had two annulments by the time I was 23.
~By Dominic Chianese ~
When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.
~By Jacques Chirac ~
My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.
~By Jack Herer ~
I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.
~By R. A. Salvatore ~
Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.
~By Lionel Blue ~
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration.
~By Steve Buyer ~
Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids.
~By Mink Stole ~
I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life.
~By Nicholas Lea ~
I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.
~By Patty Duke ~
I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line. They share and deal with that sense of risk every day, so I got to see that up close.
~By Ryan Reynolds ~
I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
~By Oliver Stone ~
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 ~
I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.
~By Alexander Dubcek ~
Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.
~By Clifford Stoll ~
The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout this situation, and for that, I am very grateful.
~By Gordon Getty ~
All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.
~By Carroll O'Connor ~
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