My Family Quotations

I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my bible, my X-Box - just kidding.

Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

My family was my guide to my reality.

If not for my family, I would have been in big trouble.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

My family and school life are important to me.

I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family. It is not a contest between the two.

I would never put my job before my family.

I have three stepfamilies as well as my family of origin. I've had to adjust to them and also go back and forth among them. I became an observer of human nature because when you are in those situations you have to be.

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.

I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my family.

The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me.

My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop.

I love spending time with my dog, my niece and my family. I'm very family-oriented.

You know, just in terms of having to have a life on the road, you know, having the celebrity aspect be a burden for my family, friends and extended family.

My wife is way funnier than I am. As much as I don't really feel I share a sense of humour with my family, I definitely share one with her - we find the same things funny.

My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.

I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.

Every member of my family was displaced by Katrina.

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.

My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.

I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.

When I'm at my grandparents', I know I literally have to do nothing but relax, enjoy myself, and enjoy my family members' company.

My family gave me the best in education.

I am proud of my heritage and my family.

I just love to work and spend time with my family. And that's the reason I don't look at the length of the role, but what it has to offer me.

In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling.

I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period.

I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

My family advocates doing what fulfills your soul. They've always said, 'You're a big girl; figure it out on your own.

My family for several generations have been members of the Unitarian Church.

My time with my family is a priority.

My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God.

I grew up going to church three times a week in my family. It's been a center of my life.

Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.

Through my whole career, that's been a major thing - bringing my family with me.

I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.

I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.

I stayed close to my family. My family never changed.

Three-quarters of my family is Irish. Of course, the 'Kazee' is not.

I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I'm like a kid.

I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment.

About six years ago my family was affected by multiple sclerosis.

I have to be very careful about how often I drag my family to places. They need some stability in their lives.

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

I needed to feed my family. I read a couple of the episodes. How can you keep on doing the same thing?

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

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

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

The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.

I really appreciate the British part of my family.

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.

I am really good about compartmentalizing and treating my family as one thing and the show or whatever my job as a secondary thing.

My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.

I work to take care of my family, not the other way around.

I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.

I want to make sure my family's straight.

They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldnt be.

I am not preparing myself or my family for anything but life.

My family restores my sense of ease and keeps me balanced.

My family is large and in charge! Thats my favorite way to describe them.

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.

The things that make me happy most are my family and working.

Nobody in my family ever thought that I'd a be a model.

It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.

My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing.

I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.

My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.

I don't know about you, but my girlfriends have been my girlfriends forever, and they're my sisters and my family.

My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.

A lot of my material was based on my family.

I had this thing about hanging out in dark theaters. My family thought I grew out of a rock.

I'm the only one in my family who is deaf, and there are still conversations that go around me that I miss out on. And I ask what's going on, and I have to ask to be included. But I'm not going to be sad about it. I don't live in sad isolation. It's just a situation I'm used to.

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.

My family are too grounded, and I will go home to visit. I always need my dose of Liverpool to keep me grounded.

For me, cooking is very connected to my family and friends.

The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.

I am close - too close - with my family.

I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.