Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
- George Eliot
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
- Douglas Coupland
Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.
- Jim Carrey
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
- Fred Allen
Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
- Barbara Bush
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
- Josh Billings
The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
- Faith Hill
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
I have a great family, I live an amazing life.
- John Oates
If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.
- Michael Enzi
My family was my guide to my reality.
- Haywood Nelson
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
- James Joyce
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
- Charles Dudley Warner
I don't think anyone has a normal family.
- Edward Furlong
I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.
- Richard M. Daley
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
- Khalil Gibran
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
- Richard Bach
I stay in tune with my family and God.
- Regina King
Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
- Bernice Weissbourd
I live quietly at home among my family and friends.
- Antonio Tabucchi
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
Tennis just a game, family is forever.
- Serena Williams
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.
- Elizabeth Fishel
I'm thankful to God for having a family that's been there for me. He's been there from the time I was a child to even now with my family helping with my little boy. It's worth more than words could ever describe. That's one of the ways I've been able to stay grounded is thanks to family and God.
- Ashton Shepherd
Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.
- Bob Ehrlich
I love all my fam. I have quite possibly the best dad, mom, and sister in the world.
- Ryan Eggold
A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.
- Mel Gibson
What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
- Princess Diana
I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.
- Jessica Lange
When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.
- Paris Hilton
Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.
- Christina Milian
I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.
- Thomas Hardy
You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.
- Sandra Bullock
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
- Alex Haley
I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!
- Shirley Manson
The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.
- Ron Reagan
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
- Gloria Steinem
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
- Christopher Lasch
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
- John Cheever
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
- Barbara Bush
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
- Pope John Paul II
For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.
- Paula Abdul
My kids give me the balance to live right.
- Celine Dion
I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.
- Ednita Nazario
If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.
- Jasmine Guy
My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
- Gwyneth Paltrow
For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
- Jessica Lange
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
- Elizabeth Edwards
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
- Agnes Smedley
I would rather start a family than finish one.
- Don Marquis
If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.
- David McCallum
Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.
- Charlie Sheen
First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.
- Angelina Jolie
We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.
- Julia Barr
It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.
- Dave Eggers
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.
- George Clooney
I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.
- Akhmad Kadyrov
I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.
- Patty Duke
I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
- Patrick Warburton
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
- Christopher Lasch
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
- Margaret Drabble
Our family life was certainly not intellectual.
- Douglass North
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
- Gertrude Stein
The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world.
- Richard G. Scott
I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
- Nastassja Kinski
When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.
- Jerry Falwell
I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.
- Maureen O'Hara
America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.
- Mitt Romney
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.
- Janet Jackson
When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
- LaToya Jackson
I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.
- LaToya Jackson
A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.
- Kathleen Turner
A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met.
- David A. Bednar
I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.
- Heidi Klum
At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.
- Gwen Stefani
My family is more important than my party.
- Zell Miller
The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.
- Dennis Wilson
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
- Douglas Coupland
My family background was deeply Christian.
- Abbe Pierre
I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.
- Anthony Anderson
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.
- Prince William
There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.
- Shirley Knight
We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.
- Darius Rucker
I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.
- Penelope Cruz
Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.
- Christopher Love
I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
- Joseph Stiglitz
God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.
- Frank Knox
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
- Anwar Sadat
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
- Kofi Annan
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.
- Joachim du Bellay
I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.
- Joyce Meyer
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns
Life is supposed to be about love and good times, and so I've forgiven myself after paying the consequences of my bad decisions, and I'm ready to move forward and allow my life to be a light to others that it's never over, even for a person like me, who has lost a tremendous amount of respect among my peers, my fans, my friends and family.
- Jon Jones
Don't worry about the pressure or the responsibility. Just live in it, have fun, and when everything seems to be going right, just stay humble and remember your family.
- Roman Reigns
You can't choose your family, but you can choose your friends.
- Scott Hall
Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.
- Willard Scott
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
- George Bernard Shaw
I'm thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support.
- Serena Williams
The memories we make with our family is everything.
- Candace Cameron Bure
Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.
- Tim Vine