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Quotes About Family

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.
~ Jane Austen, Persuasion
Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.
~ John C. Maxwell
I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.
~ Brian Dennehy
Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.
~ Nick Carter
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.
~ Josef Albers
I have a very strong family.
~ Janet Jackson
My family were staunch believers in physical violence, not automatic violence, and we had a Safeway around the corner, so we never really needed to kill anything.
~ Laurie Notaro
I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.
~ Natasha Calis
I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.
~ Nick Carter
I thought, 'If I'm going to die, I'm going to videotape it.' So I got out my little video recorder and was taping goodbyes to my family.
~ Estella Warren
My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments.
~ Irene Cara
I want to be able to take care of my family.
~ Master P
There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.
~ Garrison Keillor
My grandmother died of natural causes. Or as my family calls it murdered by the lord.
~ Dane Cook
My mum still wonders when I'll get a real job. These are the questions we discuss at our family dinners.
~ Unknown
Family is the last and greatest discovery. It is our last miracle.
~ James McBride
It's always exciting that you can rub elbows with some of the greatest players who have ever played the game, and just being around the "family" again from baseball.
~ Rickey Henderson
Growing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets.
~ Dennis Miller
Argentina is my country, my family, my way of expressing myself. I would trade all of my records for the World Cup trophy.
~ Lionel Messi
If we're sitting at dinner and there's no conversation going on because everybody's got their head someplace else in their iPhone, that's a family problem that needs to be solved.
~ Ross W. Greene
You won't see my parents honored on any stamps.
~ Lou Reed
Your parents want to think they have a healthy, happy family.
~ Mary Docter
I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
~ Vera Farmiga
The hardest thing about moving to California from Connecticut was just missing my family. If I went back, it would be just because I was homesick.
~ Kevin Nealon