My Family Quotations | Page 2

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

My family keeps me pretty grounded. Like if I try anything diva, they're like, 'Oh shut up. Go and do the dishwasher.

I gave all I had. Now I want to enjoy my family.

My family is my life, and I'll never lose that.

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.

I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.

Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn't know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren't emailing each other.

My health and my family are the core of my being.

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

I love art. I used to have a painting of Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.

I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.

I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.

There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye.

My dogs are more important than my family.

All the women in my family are extremely strong.

I talked about my family, my family's so important.

My kids and my family are number one; I enjoy them the most.

I like to stay home with my family.

Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me.

I like to be judged by my family and friends because they know me.

I took a long time off to have my baby and spend time with my family.

I love my family, I'll do anything for them.

My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy.

I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.

I think about how I'm spending my money, and I like to spend on my family.

I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.

I'm not all that demanding, I don't think. My family might think otherwise.

I'm very close with my family, so my mom is part of my entourage.

I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.

I used to worry, 'I've lost my family.' They hated me for a while, but they're very resilient.

I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.

I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.

What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.

I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.

My family always makes a huge deal out of Christmas.

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.

So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.

My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.

It's important for me to have my family close.

Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?

Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

I like to be home every night with my family.

I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'

Being with my family is my highest priority.

My family are very down-to-earth people. We are not showbizzy at all.

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

I'm thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support.

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.

I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.

My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.

I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.

I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!

My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.

I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family.

I like to think I'm very grounded. I'm very grounded in my family. I'm very grounded in my community.

I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.

I like reading, going to the gym, hanging out with my family. That's it.

Probably the earliest memories for me would be going to restaurants with my family.

My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

I can't work without my family being with me.

The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.

When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.

I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too.

My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others.

This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.

My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

I was the first person to go to university from my family.

I'm really close to all of my family.

I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.

I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that home explode, too.

The only thing I care about is my family.

I want to spend more time with my family.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.

I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.

My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

The only thing I don't like about acting is that it takes so much time away from my family. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints.

I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.

It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.

My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.

My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

I text a lot people, because it's how I stay connected with all my family and friends when I'm on set and traveling.

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

My family, the support of my friends, the amount of people that have written and come up to me on the street and said, 'Thank you for representing us,' and Adam Lambert, and Lady Gaga, that's been amazing.

My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time.

My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

I try to stay centered in my faith and my family and the close people around me.

I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.