Family Quotes

"Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted."

"Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of truly close friends to a hundred acquaintances."

"When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention."

"I found strength in what hurt me. And in my family - that's my strength as well. I'm truly grateful to be hurt as many times as I have, because I'm happy!"

"Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes."

"We have reached a new milestone as a human family. With seven billion of us now inhabiting our planet, it is time to ask some fundamental questions. How can we provide a dignified life for ourselves and future generations while preserving and protecting the global commons - the atmosphere, the oceans and the ecosystems that support us?"

"We support each other in the Coppola family. We love the idea of everyone getting his place in the sun."

"The first step in empowerment is taking control of your health, respecting yourself and understanding and celebrating the value you bring to your family and society."

"I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it."

"The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society."

"When Katrina hit, my family lost everything - their homes, jobs, friends - and then it was a ripple effect, as so many others attached to them were affected. I had to come up with $12,000 per month to take care of everyone."

"In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work - the hay in the summertime, for example."

"No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island."

"Family preparedness has been a long-established welfare principle."

"For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It's where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that's very important to me."

"The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews."

"Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college."

"I have cared for loved ones nearly all my life, so when I look in the mirror, I see a caregiver looking back at me. It began when I was 12 years old and my father became ill. Taking care of him took a toll on our entire family, my mother most of all."

"I'm overjoyed and honored to become a member of the Hollywood Records family. I've admired the careers they've made and can't wait to see how my musical path is paved out."

"The saga of a nation is the saga of its families written large. And whoever owns the family owns the future."

"When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline."

"My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family's possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C. Interior, just because my grandparents were from Japan."

"You live the life of a gipsy when you are on tour, and that's not ideal for family life."

"I think in London - and I don't wanna offend anybody in America, but this is a real statement - they still have the right approach to making music. In the U.S., people see it as a way to make money; they see it as a means to get out. It's a hustle, which is great - any way you can provide for your family that's legal is fantastic."

"I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things."

"I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity."

"Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?"

"I grew up across the street from, you know, the Villarias, which was a great Mexican family there. In fact, there was three houses right across the street from me. So, day and night, I listened to Mexican music, and I'm sure, you know, my guitar playing, singing, writing, whatever, has a lot of Mexican flavor there, but it comes natural."

"A father's authority is limited to his own family."

"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."

"Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things."

"I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy."

"One of the primary purposes of civilization - and certainly its primary strength - is the guarantee that family life can flourish in unity, peace, and order."

"If you have a good support system like your family and your friends around you, then you can't go wrong. So just believe in yourself, do you your thing, and stay strong in what you believe in."

"It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family."

"My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there."

"My family's lineage, we are warriors. The McGregor clan, we are warriors all through. We are famous all through the world for our fighting capabilities of all generations. So I have no doubt that's stood to me and that led me down this path and gave me what I have."

"Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times."

"No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?"

"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."

"I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion."

"I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family."

"The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life."

"When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children."

"I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap."

"The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated."

"Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family."

"Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation."

"As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family."

"I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food."