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Quotes About Family

It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts.
~ George Orwell
One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form a new swarm, each one thinks of carrying away his own honey.
~ George Sand
I watched a bunch of kids movies on Christmas. I was kind of joking with our family by asking, "Is anyone allowed to die in a kid's movie anymore?"
~ George Saunders
I used to feel competitive about a career, but now the only things I'm really passionate about are my family, the environment and Indians.
~ Robert Redford
My family is my number one priority.
~ Georgina Chapman
A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.
~ Robert Breault
Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby.
~ Robert Breault
My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.
~ George Edward Woodberry
Being at home with my family always inspires me. I find it hard to be inspired when I'm on the move. I'm not creative when I'm jet-lagged and sleeping in strange hotels.
~ Stefon Harris
I like to think I'm very grounded. I'm very grounded in my family. I'm very grounded in my community.
~ Gerry Adams
I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.
~ Gertrude Stein
I'm actually totally the prude of my family.
~ Unknown
I'm not a natural ocean person. I married into a family of swimmers, and I've slowly been drawn into the sea.
~ Glenn Close
Family has always been the number one priority no matter what happens anywhere else.
~ Gloria Estefan
If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
My mom would leave her job, and there would be throngs of people screaming and banging on our car. I come from a very private family, but I was born into a public family.
~ Tracee Ellis Ross
I'm going to have my family after I play football.
~ Terrell Owens
I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it. The only thing I know about it is what I picked up from my aunts and parents.
~ Robert Barry
We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice.
~ Gore Vidal
I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.
~ Sayed Kashua
I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there.
~ Grant Bowler
Everybody's family has problems.
~ Greg Kinnear
Rocky would definitely run for councilman. Maybe mayor. But these people are actually most effective in the family unit. That's where they shine.
~ Sylvester Stallone