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Quotes About Family

I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from "Alice in Wonderland," so we've got some strange names in our family.
~ Brie Larson
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
~ Plutarch
We oppose and abhor the damnable practice of wholesale abortion and every other unholy and impure act which strikes at the very foundation of the home and family, our most basic institutions.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place.
~ Lucy Lawless
Requesting a change of environment was an extremely difficult decision. After a tremendous amount of reflection and numerous conversations with my family, it made the most sense to seek a change.
~ Unknown
OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known.
~ Bill Gates
I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.
~ Steve Zahn
They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.
~ Zadie Smith, On Beauty
Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.
~ Tyler Perry
I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.
~ Dhani Harrison
My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.
~ Ariel Sharon
Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.
~ Greg Bryk
What's important is that my family and I are all good.
~ Solange Knowles
Just think: your family are the people most likely to give you the flu.
~ Jane Wagner
Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.
~ Arthur Compton
I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.
~ Dolly Parton
I've always like roadracing, but you know how it is in a family when you're young. They thought it was a little too dangerous so I started with Trials riding.
~ Sete Gibernau
I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.
~ Taraji P. Henson
If I ever have a son, I would call him Frankie, and it's a family name - it's my dad and my dad's dad, so you know, it sticks. I won't forget it.
~ Frank Lampard
It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.
~ James Ellis
My mum certainly isn't a prude, nor is my brother, so I think I'm lucky to have a family like that.
~ Roxanne McKee
I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?
~ Joan Jett
I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.
~ John Malkovich
In Italy, the concept of the family is very important.
~ Monica Bellucci