Family Quotes

There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family.

Jeffrey Kluger

If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related.

Jodi Picoult

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

Patty Duke

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

Leon Kass

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

Maureen O'Hara

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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

George Bernard Shaw

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

Grace Kelly

Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

Queen Elizabeth II

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence

Samuel Johnson

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.

Jodi Picoult

Oh my son's my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all her life.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.

Prince William

Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

R. Emmett Tyell

When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I have no idea who you are.' I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I'll be like, 'Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?'

Sherri Shepherd

I want my family to resemble the family I came from.

Katherine Heigl

With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size, and it wasn't two burgers, it was one.

Ginnifer Goodwin

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

Lady Gaga

I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.

Liam Neeson

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

Oliver Hudson