Family Quotes

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.

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

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

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

My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.

What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.

I used to date Latoya for awhile, I was a close freind of the family.

Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends - they will never go out of fashion.

The practical reality of managing cars in the family - I do 36-month leases. I think they're horrible investments. And you want to give them back after their warranty is over.

I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape. I never got in serious trouble, except for my grades.

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans.

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

I come from a pretty strange family.

I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.

My family comes first, and you have to be in charge to be able to protect that. You have to be the one who says no or you don't have a life, which is what I found out the first time.

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

The Rooneys are very classy. They're very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you're part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don't have a lot of rambunctious players running around.

I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.

My father never talked about the sacrifices that the family made for me.

As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.

I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.

You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community.