I talked about my family, my family's so important.
~By Jim Valvano ~
I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
~By Patrick Warburton ~
I have to be very careful about how often I drag my family to places. They need some stability in their lives.
~By Gregory Harrison ~
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
~By Jessica Lange ~
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 had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it.
~By Lizzy Caplan ~
Family is always the most important part.
~By Ekaterina Gordeeva ~
For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer we played football outside.
~By Claudia Schiffer ~
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
~By Virginia Satir ~
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 ~
Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life.
~By Dick Murphy ~
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 ~
And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us.
~By Jami Gertz ~
I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why the media wouldn't leave me in peace.
~By Grete Waitz ~
I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.
~By Nora Roberts ~
When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
~By LaToya Jackson ~
The government is becoming the family of last resort.
~By Jerry Brown ~
I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.
~By Michael Landon ~
My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.
~By Roger Bannister ~
In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation.
~By James Young ~
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 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 ~
It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.
~By Mary Cheney ~
My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.
~By Emeril Lagasse ~
People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.
~By Kazuo Ishiguro ~
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 ~
The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard.
~By James Daly ~
Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family.
~By Mink Stole ~
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 ~
Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.
~By Serena Williams ~
Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.
~By Joe Manchin ~
I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.
~By Alberto Juantorena ~
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 ~
Everybody I talked to - from my friends to my family and some of the players - really gave me a lot of support from the start. And that certainly made me feel good about trying to come back and be one of the best again.
~By Mario Lemieux ~
When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
~By Barry Levinson ~
I always knew I was going to be a family man.
~By Rick Schroder ~
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
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 ~
As far as the girls in my grade, it was always kind of an on-and-off thing. When all this came up, it was kind of hard. My guy friends and my family friends have been so amazing and supportive.
~By Stacie Orrico ~
In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.
~By Fanny Burney ~
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 ~
Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
~By Daniel Boone ~
For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family.
~By Avi Arad ~
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.
~By Betty Hill ~
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 ~
Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.
~By James Levine ~
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 ~
I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.
~By Maureen Forrester ~
When I was 20 or 21, I didn't... I won't say care about anything, but you're like in your own world - you made something that you always wanted to do, and then you kind of think only about your family and yourself.
~By Thierry Henry ~
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 ~
They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.
~By Dave Reichert ~
My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God.
~By Bob Balaban ~
I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.
~By R. A. Salvatore ~
The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.
~By Dodie Smith ~
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
~By Henry Ellis ~
My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.
~By Johnny Vegas ~
My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy.
~By Blake Lively ~
Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.
~By Earl Wilson ~
Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.
~By Augustus Y. Napier ~
I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
~By Eddie Bernice Johnson ~
After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records.
~By Richard Reeves ~
It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.
~By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ~
You do become very close like a family but because you see each other for such an intense period of time on the set everyday. You really don't end up socializing that much.
~By Sela Ward ~
Through the years you, the Delaware State family and your predecessors, have faced many challenges. You worked through them with fierce determination and good will, and you have made great progress.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.
~By Catherine Helen Spence ~
The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
~By Talcott Parsons ~
In time your relatives will come to accept the idea that a career is as important to you as your family. Of course, in time the polar ice cap will melt.
~By Barbara Dale ~
My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
~By Yancy Butler ~
I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.
~By Diane Cilento ~
And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.
~By Calista Flockhart ~
I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.
~By Marisa Tomei ~
I took a long time off to have my baby and spend time with my family.
~By Kelly Preston ~
Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word.
~By Star Jones ~
I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.
~By Miley Cyrus ~
It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.
~By Paul Prudhomme ~
I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family.
~By Jack Bowman ~
The world's a small place and people are watching; and, you know, somebody disappears, the family knows and their colleagues know, and so eventually, these things do get out.
~By Jane Mayer ~
My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
~By Ethel Waters ~
This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.
~By Olga Korbut ~
The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!
~By Antonia Fraser ~
The 'movement' is paramount, the concept of 'family' is the symbol we wish to project.
~By Juan Antonio Samaranch ~
According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.
~By Kit Bond ~
A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.
~By Tom DeLay ~
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 ~
Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.
~By Elizabeth Fishel ~
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 ~
I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.
~By Paul Nurse ~
I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.
~By Dick Bruna ~
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 ~
Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.
~By Chris Brown ~
Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.
~By Warren Farrell ~
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