Quotes About Family

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

The problem for me is that I look like so many people in my family, so I can't really see anything. Except I could say that I look rather like my father without his mustache.

The women in my family are just strong women who do their own thing, so I knew I needed to have individuals like that.

Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.

There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye.

I gave all I had. Now I want to enjoy my family.

Family photos, pictures of groups, those are truely wonderful. And they are just as good as the old masters, just as rich and just as beautifully composed (what does that mean anyway).

I have a group of close personal friends that are all my world. My family is my world. And as long as those people are happy with me, then I'm happy with myself.

Its really good to have so distinctive a name as an actress. No one ever forgets it. My sister and brother are called Perdita and Rollo. Actually, my family calls me Hollyhocks.

I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have sisters, so the women rule the coop in my house.

We are an American family and we rise and fall together as one nation.

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.

The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

I think gold is a great thing to sew onto your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses.

42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.

There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.

There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.

I want you to understand something: I am loving father who would do anything for his kids, whether they are mine or belonging to others in my family.