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Quotes About Family

I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.
~ Ricky Jay
Lafayette saw himself as the protector of royalty; they [the king and his family] considered him its gaoler.
~ William Doyle
Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that's really what it feels like.
~ Mario Andretti
I'm from such an old family, it's been condemned.
~ Phyllis Diller
I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
~ Billy Sherwood
I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family.
~ James Goldman
My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.
~ Gloria Steinem
It is going to be special to drive in the Netherlands because it means I can take part in a Formula One demonstration in a country where I have a lot of family and friends.
~ Nelson Piquet
My family were from Jamaica.
~ Diane Abbott
Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.
~ Jacques Pepin
I have family members that are bipolar. One had a case recently that I witnessed, and it was very, very helpful.
~ Trai Byers
My family are really happy here at Liverpool and I am prepared to have my daughter with a Scouse accent, even though it is sometimes a problem for me.
~ Rafael Benitez
I have the most amazing and supportive family. My parents always encouraged us to aim high and follow our dreams. They instilled in us that nothing worth having comes easy.
~ Jamie Eason
I got born in the wrong family.
~ Helen Cresswell
In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.
~ David Mamet
My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.
~ Kal Penn
My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
~ David Mamet
The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit.
~ Luis Gutierrez
A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.
~ Ronald Reagan
Christ didn't leave us a book of instructions; He left us a body, a family - a Church. If it were perfectly clear, there wouldn't be any freedom.
~ Francis George
My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The daughter never ever gives up on the mother, just as the mother never gives up on the daughter. There is a tie there so strong that nothing can break it.
~ Rachel Billington
Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.
~ Terry Zwigoff