My Family famous quotes
05-12-2025
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I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.
-- A.M. Homes -
But I don't fit. Your family hates me. I make your life difficult." That's where she was wrong. "No, You're my family. And as for making my life difficult, you, Blaire Wynn, make my life complete.
-- Abbi Glines -
I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
I've always just had troubles with my family because I'm psychotic. It had nothing to do with that.
-- Adam Sandler -
I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.
-- Adam West -
My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.
-- Adora Svitak -
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.
-- Aidan Quinn -
Education equals choices. I have been blessed with the choice to be anything I ever wanted to be, and I truly owe my happiness to my family and education.
-- Aimee Garcia -
I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.
-- Al Roker -
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.
-- Alan Jackson -
What motivates me more than money are God and my family.
-- Albert Pujols -
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
-- Alex Haley -
Probably the earliest memories for me would be going to restaurants with my family.
-- Alexander Wang -
Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.
-- Alexis Korner -
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.
-- Alison Bechdel -
Eating at home is fine, as I can easily work around the foods that don't agree with me and still eat heartily with the rest of my family. I don't force them to follow my diet.
-- Andrea McLean -
I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant,
-- Andrew Dice Clay -
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.
-- Anita Desai -
Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.
-- Anna Chancellor -
My family and school life are important to me.
-- Anna Chlumsky -
I grew up poor. I had no money. My family was poor. There's things I wanted to do and couldn't. I was an abused wife. Just -- there's tons of things that I couldn't even mention. And for me to come up and to have all of this fame and fortune, it's just.
-- Anna Nicole Smith -
My family tends to be pretty alcoholic and drug-addicted.
-- Anne Lamott -
I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life.
-- Anne Lamott -
In the ’70s it was skateboards, in the ’80s it was drugs, in the ’90s it was art, and now it’s my family.
-- Anthony -
In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.
-- Aravind Adiga -
I love art. I used to have a painting of Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.
-- Armie Hammer -
I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period.
-- Art Modell -
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.
-- Ashley Tisdale -
My family isn't posh; they're musicians.
-- Audrey Niffenegger -
The thing I know for sure is that at the end of my life, what I'm going to remember is the love I felt for my family and my friends, and whatever good I did for other people.
-- Barack Obama -
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.
-- Barbara Cook -
I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
Perserverance. . .that's been the story of my family.
-- Barry Goldwater -
My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.
-- Ben Harper -
My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.
-- Benjamin Bratt -
I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.
-- Benjamin Bratt -
Being with my family is my highest priority.
-- Bethenny Frankel -
I can't work without my family being with me.
-- Bethenny Frankel -
My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.
-- Bill de Blasio -
Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
-- Bill Drayton -
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.
-- Bill James -
I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.
-- Bjork -
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.
-- Bob Balaban -
I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.
-- Bob Balaban -
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.
-- Bob Balaban -
I'm Winnie the Pooh - that's as sexy as I am. I meet ladies and they talk about their family and I talk about my family. It's about as sexy as a bag of Brussel sprouts.
-- Bob Hoskins -
I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.
-- Bobby Flay -
If I told you that the big contract had nothing to do with my signing, Id be lying. It made the future secure for my family.
-- Bobby Hull -
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.
-- Boman Irani -
In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling.
-- Bonnie Wright -
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.
-- Brad Pitt -
I work to take care of my family, not the other way around.
-- Brian J. White -
I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my bible, my X-Box - just kidding.
-- Brian Littrell -
All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.
-- Brigitte Nielsen -
My family is large and in charge! Thats my favorite way to describe them.
-- Britt Robertson -
When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
-- Calvin Trillin -
I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.
-- Camilla Belle -
I can actually cook one meal now, as opposed to before, when I could cook nothing. My family are very excited.
-- Carey Mulligan -
I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since.
-- Carl Spitteler -
But I found my family. I found the right thing to do. I found the way home.
-- Caroline B. Cooney -
In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.
-- Caroline Kennedy -
Let me tell you something about my family. We're as thick as thieves and we protect each other 'til the end.
-- Caroline Manzo -
I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.
-- Caroline Wozniacki -
If not for my family, I would have been in big trouble.
-- Chad Everett -
My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.
-- Chang-Rae Lee -
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.
-- Charlotte Church -
My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.
-- Chen Guangcheng -
My fervent hope is that it would be possible for me and my family to leave for the U.S. on Hillary Clinton’s plane,
-- Chen Guangcheng -
I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'
-- Cher -
I was the third one in my family born, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name,
-- Chord Overstreet -
I will continue to pursue my music and live my life with my family.
-- Chris Daughtry -
I know Im British. I havent spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasnt British, what would I be? I am British.
-- Chris Froome -
None of what’s happened to me and to my family has shaken what I know to be correct and true about science and medicine, and my experiences.
-- Christine Maggiore -
My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.
-- Christine Taylor -
Nobody in my family ever thought that I'd a be a model.
-- Cindy Crawford -
Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.
-- Clive Owen -
A member of my family, who shall remain nameless, refers to all newborns as ‘blobs’.
-- Cordelia Fine -
When my family isn't alright, I get restless. It just doesn't seem right to me.
-- Cristiano Ronaldo -
It's important for me to have my family close.
-- Curtis Joseph -
In my very own self, I am part of my family.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
The things that make me happy most are my family and working.
-- Damon Albarn -
I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.
-- Dan Stevens -
I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family.
-- Danny Dyer -
When I retired in 2002 I had retired to stay home with my family and didn't necessarily think my playing days were over.
-- Darren Flutie -
I was lucky enough to have a loving present father in my family.
-- David Duke -
What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.
-- David Guterson -
I've often lost faith in myself, I've never lost it in my family
-- David Sedaris -
My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment.
-- Davy Jones -
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.
-- Dawn French -
I grew up going to church three times a week in my family. It's been a center of my life.
-- Debby Boone -
Oh, my family lived in 21 places before I was 17.
-- Dennis Kucinich
