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Quotes About Family

When it comes to my family I never quite know how protective I have to be, or what I should or shouldn't say.
~ Sophie Ellis Bextor
I am happiest when I'm sitting on my parent's couch with the fire place on and talking to my family.
~ Shantel VanSanten
What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.
~ David Brooks
At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.
~ Dean Koontz
My family means more to me than the artificial trappings of my career. If ever I had to choose between my career and my family, the wife and kids would definitely come out on top.
~ Mel Gibson
As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist.
~ Christopher Hitchens
It's important for me to have my family close.
~ Curtis Joseph
I came from somewhat of a musical family. I had an uncle on Broadway. My dad kind of knows how to play instruments. Although, I always find it annoying when he does play an instrument.
~ Nate Ruess
It's a very different bond, siblings and friends. And I just - I wanted that huge family, just to surround me, be surrounded by.
~ Nadya Suleman
Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with.
~ Roger Ebert
I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.
~ Susan Sarandon
I didn't want to do casting in a way that you find yourself in a situation where there's this perfect girl for a part and you just can't cast her because the family says no.
~ Deniz Gamze Erguven
You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.
~ William J. Clinton
I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention.
~ Sandra Bernhard
It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Whatever shift is necessary is dependent on the scale on which it can be implemented, which is to say in your local community and family.
~ Peter Buffett
Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.
~ Viggo Mortensen
We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. The Syrians are members of our family.
~ Desmond Tutu
I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
There was a lot of creative energy that I had, that I feel wasn't understood, and I think that whole world for me felt like another family, another place where I could feel heard.
~ Unknown
I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.
~ Dick Bruna
I'm focusing on my family, raising my family, and staying blessed.
~ DJ Khaled
I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.
~ Dolly Parton
I'm just a friendly person; that runs in my family.
~ Dolly Parton