Family Quotes

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

Mario Puzo

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.

Max Muller

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

Meryl Streep

Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.

Brett Favre

It's okay if you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than I've ever wanted anything in my life. But that's what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want. So I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want to stop fighting.

Gayle Forman

She understands suddenly that the stuff that fills her up is not the love or attention she might get from other people; it is the love she herself has for other people. We are, Portia decides, the people we love

Jessica Anya Blau

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.

Albrecht Durer

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

Edward Furlong

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

James Earl Jones

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Angelina Jolie

We grew to know the meaning of love. That is what allowed me and my family to stay close together.

Martin Lawrence

Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.

Clive Owen

I love him dearly. On issues of economics and... family values, there's nobody that I know that's stronger.

John McCain

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man's everyday wants.

Aristotle

Friendship is not by force but by choice.You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.

Stella Oladiran

My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.

Giada De Laurentiis

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

Chaim Potok

I love celery and people don't use it a lot. Celery and flavors in that family - it really brightens and is refreshing.

Todd English

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

Anne Tyler

The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.

Kerry Washington