Family Quotes

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.

Andre Rieu

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

Chris Christie

Family comes first. You're the only thing they have.

Heidi Klum

Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.

Nicole Kidman

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

Henry Louis Gates

I have a family.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

Christopher Lasch

In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.

Brett Favre

I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.

Sting

I've been experimenting more and more with LN2, liquid nitrogen. I've used it in battle on 'Iron Chef America,' but have also made some great ice creams at home for my family. Since it freezes basically on contact, you can have ice cream ready in mere minutes.

Cat Cora

I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.

Tiger Woods

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.

Harvey Fierstein

I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.

Brooke Burke

In Vanya's family, silence had never meant surrender, only tactical retreat.

Orson Scott Card

Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad

William Shakespeare

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.

Ang Lee

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.

Marlo Thomas

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

Akhmad Kadyrov

My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of &pound10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.

Hugh Jackman

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

James Taylor