Quotes About Family

I'm the only member of my family who dared to move away from Birmingham - my brothers and sister are still here, along with my mom.

Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and another with all the faults. But it's never that way.

When someone denies the right of Israel to exist, it hurts us, just as an attack on a close member of our family would hurt us.

Football is important, but my family and faith are also important, and no matter how good a football player I am, I knew I still needed to be a good member of the church. Having that spiritual connection helped me throughout the season. It brought balance. I felt better about myself and saw improvements in all aspects of my life.

Getting people where they want to go, reliably and happily, can make or break their ability to succeed in a work endeavor or to hug a family member at an important moment.

I have a family member who was in the foster system briefly, and so I've kind of grown up knowing about it myself.

The main interest of most members of the Christian Coalition is the breakdown of the family. I think that's our biggest problem, and if the whole country was as concerned and active in issues of the family as members of the Christian Coalition are, we'd probably be better off as a country.

If somebody doesn't want to cook at home or has more family members than they have room for, then it's great to be in a city that's got restaurants that are actually busy on the holidays.

I think in terms of the parents that I had, I sort of drew a bad hand, or bad karma; who knows? And I did have a family that was complicated, with some quite eccentric members. So there was a lot of grist there.

The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church.

I was born in Earl K. Long Hospital. I was born Feb. 5th, 1986. I have a lot of family members. My grandmother had five girls, and all of them had children. It was always a house full. A lot of cousins. A lot of family members.

Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.

My family for several generations have been members of the Unitarian Church.

Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

For me, I have gay family members, and I have a lot of friends in the LBGT community.

I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy.

I can't speak for the other people whose children have died, but I can speak for my family and the other members of Gold Star Families for Peace. We believe we're honoring our children by working for peace.

I always used to put on plays when I was younger for my family to watch, when I was 10 or something. I used to force older members of my family to watch the plays and younger members of my family to be characters in the plays - and my personal favorite was Batman.

I have family members that are bipolar.

Through the 'It's About Ability' campaign and with parents and other members of society, we have created a social family for children with disabilities.

White supremacist? Let's see: if you have a guy who was married for 13 years to an Asian woman and who has two lovely Asian daughters, wouldn't that disqualify him from membership in the white supremacist club?

As irony would have it, the very person who inspired me to write a memoir... was the only person to be ejected from it. My brother didn't appear in 'Out of Egypt.'

My memoir is a story of family and childhood, and everyone has had one of those. Mine is not the definitive version of childhood, but it's a great way to start a conversation.