Family Quotes

I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
     - Dan Quayle -

My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.
     - Dane Cook -

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.
     - David Ogilvy -

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
     - Desmond Tutu -

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
     - Dodie Smith -

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
     - Douglas Adams -

When you look at your life the greatest happiness are family happinesses.
     - Dr. Joyce Brothers -

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
     - Dr. Seuss -

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.
     - Dwight L. Moody -

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
     - Earl Nightingale -

We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.
     - Henry Ward Beecher -

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.
     - Hillary Clinton -

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.
     - Isaac Rosenfeld -

I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships.
     - James Caan -

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
     - Jane Howard -

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'
     - Jeff Foxworthy -

For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.
     - Jeff Foxworthy -

I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.
     - Jeff Foxworthy -

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.
     - Jerry Seinfeld -

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.
     - Jim Carrey -

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.
     - Mignon McLaughlin -

You know, my life's changed now. I'm starting to experience what people are really supposed to do. You supposed to be married. You're supposed to have a family, kids, treat your wife right.
     - Mike Epps -

The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.
     - Miley Cyrus -

I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.
     - Miley Cyrus -

Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.
     - Milton R. Saperstein -

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.
     - Natalie Portman -

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
     - Ogden Nash -

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
     - Oscar Wilde -

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
     - P. J. O'Rourke -

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
     - Patrick Henry -

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
     - Vince Lombardi -

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
     - Virginia Satir -

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
     - W. C. Fields -

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
     - Walt Disney -

A man should never neglect his family for business.
     - Walt Disney -

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
     - Will Rogers -

You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.
     - William D. Tammeus -

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.
     - Willie Aames -

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained.
     - Winston Churchill -

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found
     - Winston Churchill –

I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.
     - Yo-Yo Ma -

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