Quotes About Family

Family is the only anchor that will hold in a choppy sea.

How parents interact with each child as he or she enters the family circle determines in great part that child's final destiny.

Coming from a large family makes you feel protected - you have friends and allies.

I've often lost faith in myself, I've never lost it in my family.

In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

in the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.

My wife is the CEO of the family. I'm the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.

Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.

You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

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!

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole.

My family has to be very patient living with me, if you're playing a part that's not you. You have to get it right.

In everything I do, my children come first, and my husband. I just think it's so important to maintain family stability.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.

When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94.

Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because were from North England.

I come from a food family, so you would think that I would be great at making baked beans or something, but I'm not.

I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.

I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home.