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Quotes About Family

I'm grateful my teenaged daughter is healthy and well and for the work I do to make a living.
~ Alton Brown
My family are my priority but I've always had a strong work ethic and I like to be busy.
~ Amanda Holden
My attitude towards money is because of my mum and dad. My parents have always worked full time and I've always had that work ethic in me.
~ Amy Childs
When you work with kids, you realize if they have a really good, stable family environment that they're going to be okay.
~ Amy Hill
Working from home is so, so hard because I want to be present for them and yet there's so much to do work-wise. That's the biggest challenge for me.
~ Andy Serkis
I take my kids to school and if I go to work they visit me on set, I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, a very warm home. I'm fortunate.
~ Angelina Jolie
I want to raise my kids, I want to get them through their teenage years. ... I do love my work with the UN and with PSVI so if I can do more of that and be more effective I will do whatever I can.
~ Angelina Jolie
I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.
~ Angelina Jolie
I'm a very private person. I don't go out much. I'm home with kids. I go to work. I don't really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.
~ Angelina Jolie
I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail.
~ Annie Dillard
Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.
~ Unknown
The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.
~ Arlie Russell Hochschild
I may not always be offered work, but I'll always have my family.
~ Audrey Hepburn
I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.
~ Barack Obama
Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.
~ Ben Marcus
I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.
~ Ben Marcus
Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.
~ Bertrand Russell
Take personal responsibility. A lot of people go, 'Well, I'll get a dog because I have a kid and a kid needs a dog.' And it doesn't work out for that dog and the dog is on the street.
~ Betty White
The favorite method of vice is to diss all responsibility be work or social, go off by myself, and enjoy a good steak and a great glass of wine. Oh yeah, and my kids are there too.
~ Bob Saget
I just love to work and spend time with my family. And that's the reason I don't look at the length of the role, but what it has to offer me.
~ Boman Irani
Teach yourself and teach your families about the gift of the Holy Ghost and the Atonement of Jesus Christ. You will do no greater eternal work than within the walls of your own home.
~ Boyd K. Packer
Can't you home school me?" Nate pleaded. "You would never do any work." (Nate's mom) "Sounds perfect!
~ Brandon Mull
My parents love each other. They work through their problems.
~ Brian Austin Green