Quotes About Family

There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.

I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.

I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

I would like to go back and spend a Christmas with my family and myself when I was five years old and just see what that dynamic would be like. Observe it. I think it would be a magical gift.

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.

Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.

I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.

Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun?

My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

You always draw inspiration from your family or your parents if they've proven to be inspirational. My mother is someone who's always been inspirational to me.

I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.

My family always makes a huge deal out of Christmas.

I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.

I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.

You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.

I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.