Quotes About Family

No one should be forced to delay health care because politicians have the audacity to presume to know what is best for a woman and her family.

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. 'Disco Pigs' was my first professional acting experience.

I didn't bother to explain about the glitter in my hair. I figured they could think it was a family trait. We all glittered, just like the Cullens in Twilight.

Marriage takes perseverance and determination. There are always opportunities to walk away from marriage but I feel very strongly that you have a responsibility once you start a family.

I had a very close family and I couldn't get away with anything.

Dream of me, my beloved family, happy in my plundering and adventuring, for when the waves rock me to sleep tonight, I will be dreaming of you.

There is no problem in the family, ward, or stake that cannot be solved if we look for solutions in the Lord's way by counseling - really counseling - with one another.

People think I'm so confident. Close family members can see through that.

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.

How we treat our invalids - our mad, our physically or mentally compromised family members - does tell you something about who we are politically, historically, culturally.

Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?

I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.

I'm very fortunate that I have a wonderful family around me and loved ones.

Freedom, like charity, begins at home.

I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.

You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.

I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose. And I chose those two. I think that's what you'd call a silver lining.

Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.

Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work.

The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked