Family Quotes

You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

Barbara Bush

Family is more than blood

Cassandra Clare

I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.

Christina Ricci

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.

Vin Diesel

I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

Carlos Ghosn

I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.

Guy Lafleur

These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths.

Mercedes Lackey

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

Meryl Streep

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

Alice Sebold

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.

Francesca Annis

Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.

Jerry L. Lewis

If a woman writes about family and about the connections between people and what it means to be alive in this day and time, it's called women's fiction. And if a man does it, it's nominated for a National Book Award. What - you can't have a heart and a penis? That doesn't make sense.

Jodi Picoult

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Denzel Washington

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

Agnes Smedley

He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

Nicolas Bentley

My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.

Mario Batali

My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.

Emma Bunton

When you start a family, couples give up their personal love to achieve a greater responsibility - to nurture their children into good human beings, and nothing should deter them from that goal until the kids are on their own feet

Siddharth Katragadda

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating.

Henry Louis Gates

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

Oscar Wilde