| Author | Quote | Rank |
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| Desmond Tutu | You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.  | 27 |
| Gary Vaynerchuk | Stop doing things that waste time. Don't replace time with your family or things that you need to do. I needed to put together two fantasy teams this weekend because that's something I enjoy, but I did stop playing Nintendo Wii for hours on end. | 101 |
| George Santayana | The family is one of nature's masterpieces. | 101 |
| Kim Kardashian | At the end of the day, life is about being happy being who you are, and I feel like we are so blessed to have the support system and the best family to really just support each other no matter what we're going through. | 101 |
| Pope John Paul II | Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church. | 101 |
| Kofi Annan | Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. | 101 |
| Richard Bach | The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. | 101 |
| Aishwarya Rai Bachchan | My family is my strength and my weakness. | 101 |
| Amy Winehouse | All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family. | 101 |
| Barbara Bush | To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. | 101 |
| Charles Kuralt | The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. | 101 |
| Christina Rossetti | For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands. | 101 |
| Clayton Christensen | The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends. | 101 |
| Colin Farrell | You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form. | 101 |
| Ellie Goulding | 'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good. | 101 |
| Eric Hoffer | Children are the keys of paradise. | 101 |
| Faith Hill | The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me. | 101 |
| Forest Whitaker | When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in. | 101 |
| Frank Abagnale | A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father. | 101 |
| Fred Saberhagen | I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together. | 101 |
| George Burns | Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. | 101 |
| Gia Coppola | My family and I are so close, it's important to have a close knit relationship and to make time to spend with each other, especially at the holidays. | 101 |
| Guy Lafleur | When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you. | 101 |
| Haniel Long | So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it. | 101 |
| Hayden Fry | I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it. | 101 |
| Ioan Gruffudd | As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus. | 101 |
| Ishmael Beah | I had gone to a talent show - I was interested in American hip-hop music - with my older brother, to another town, and my town was attacked. I went from having an entire family to the next minute not having anything. It was very painful. | 101 |
| Izabel Goulart | Diabetes is a disease that's had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby and I have spent time learning about the disease and trying to bring attention to it so that one day soon we will reach a cure. | 101 |
| Keira Knightley | Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side. | 101 |
| Kelli O'Hara | My mom's side of the family is from Arkansas! | 101 |
| Kelly Clarkson | My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water. | 101 |
| Khaled Hosseini | I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things. | 101 |
| Kym Whitley | I love Cleveland, and I love going back home. That's where my family is. That's where my roots are. | 101 |
| Lee Iacocca | The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. | 101 |
| Len Goodman | Life is precious and relationships are precious. I'm a great believer in family. | 101 |
| Lex Luger | Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time. | 101 |
| Lil' Kim | I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily. | 101 |
| Luke Evans | I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy. | 101 |
| Madonna Ciccone | Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family. | 101 |
| Marcus Samuelsson | I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me. | 101 |
| Mark Cuban | Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have. | 101 |
| Mel Gibson | A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere. | 101 |
| Michael Bloomberg | And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government. | 101 |
| Michael J. Fox | Family is not an important thing. It's everything. | 101 |
| Nick Clegg | My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. It's very warm, it's very up, it's very down. I would celebrate that. | 101 |
| Oliver Hudson | Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with. | 101 |
| Olivia Newton-John | My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with a life-threatening illness like cancer choose a point person for people to call to find out how you are doing - a sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, or close friend. | 101 |
| Ronaldinho | My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them. | 101 |
| Rosie O'Donnell | I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do that it's inborn. I'm not asking that. All I'm saying is don't let these children suffer without a family because of your bias. | 101 |
| Suzanne Vega | You have to defend your honor. And your family. | 101 |
| Trevor Noah | I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix in South Africa. And this was obviously awkward because I grew up in a mixed family. My mother's a black woman, South African Xhosa woman... and my father's Swiss, from Switzerland. | 101 |
| Uday Kotak | I was not very keen on joining the family business... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality. | 101 |
| Vinny Guadagnino | My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are. | 101 |
| Wendy Davis | Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It's a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It's a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you're damn right it's a true story. | 101 |
| Wentworth Miller | My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion. | 101 |
| Willard Scott | 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. | 101 |
| Willie Stargell | There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street. | 101 |
| Xi Jinping | Our responsibility is to rally and lead the whole party and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups, take up this historic baton and continue working hard for the great renewal of the Chinese nation, so that we will stand rock firm in the family of nations and make fresh and greater contribution to mankind. | 101 |
| Yann Arthus-Bertrand | I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words. | 101 |
| Zell Miller | My family is more important than my party. | 101 |
| Zoey Deutch | My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage sale. Treasure hunting is a family passion. | 101 |
| Andrea Arnold | I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. | 101 |
| Anthony Carmona | Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person's sense of self-worth. | 101 |
| Billy Porter | I love the community of theater. There is something about the camaraderie: People who show up eight times a week to do a show. It's unlike any other business. It's just lovely. You feel like you're in a family. | 101 |
| Charlie Munger | Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but I think civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses. | 101 |
| Christopher Monckton | The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible. | 101 |
| Dan Savage | Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials. | 101 |
| David Ogden Stiers | Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. | 101 |
| David Oyelowo | My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA. | 101 |
| Drew Gilpin Faust | I think the expectation of me was that I'd grow up, get married, have a family, probably not even have a job outside the home. I had bold notions sometime in my childhood that I wanted to be veterinarian... I wasn't sure I'd ever do it. | 101 |
| Ednita Nazario | I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children. | 101 |
| Emma Roberts | I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them. | 101 |
| Eugene H. Peterson | I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything. | 101 |
| Fabrice Muamba | Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go. | 101 |
| Faith Evans | When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the name Biggie Smalls, but I really wasn't that much into hip-hop at the time, so I really didn't know that was him. He said he didn't even know I was an artist on 'Bad Boy.' | 101 |
| George Weinberg | My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could. | 101 |
| Giuliana Rancic | A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today. | 101 |
| Henry Ian Cusick | Hawaii is a beautiful place to bring up a family. | 101 |
| Jared Kushner | The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff. | 101 |
| Jeffrey Kluger | It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back. | 101 |
| John Irving | To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense. | 101 |
| John James Audubon | Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family. | 101 |
| Josie Loren | God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don't know what I'd do without them. | 101 |
| Kathryn Hahn | I was on vacation with my family when I got the scripts for 'Wanderlust' and I was trying to work on the audition while I was on vacation. I remember a big gust of wind blew the entire script into the pool, so I had to dry it with a hairdryer. | 101 |
| Kerri Walsh Jennings | I think the No. 1 thing that helps me get through every single day is the support of my friends and my family. | 101 |
| Kristen Bell | I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it. | 101 |
| Laurie Colwin | I come from a coffee-loving family, and you can always tell when my sister and I have been around, because both of us collect all the dead coffee from everyone's morning cup, pour it over ice, and drink it. This is a disgusting habit. | 101 |
| Mika Brzezinski | I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home in time to say good night, I may have one good hour with the girls, maybe a brief family dinner or a family walk with the dog, and then it is back on the computer to prepare for tomorrow's shows. | 101 |
| Pam Grier | I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance. | 101 |
| Patricia Velasquez | Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now. | 101 |
| Patrick Warburton | I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do. | 101 |
| Penelope Ann Miller | Luckily because I had a family and children, my priorities changed. I mean, I'm very passionate about my work but I have other interests and other things that balance my life. | 101 |
| Philip Green | It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family. | 101 |
| Ralph Fiennes | One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor. | 101 |
| Richard Attenborough | I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man: who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something. | 101 |
| Stefano Gabbana | I never talked about homosexuality with my family. After I was 18, they know everything, but I never talk; it was like an information but in silence. I start to talk when I was 32, it was good for me - it was like a liberation. I'm talking about a love story. I'm not talking about sex because love is love. | 101 |
| Ted Lindsay | A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit. | 101 |
| Travis Barker | I wanted to say thanks... and share my gratitude for everything I've been blessed with. Family, friends, and continued support from everyone. | 101 |
| Vartan Gregorian | Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family. | 101 |
| Victor Ortiz | I do not have a family, per se. When I was younger, I grew up in foster care with my brother and sister. It was really a struggle, and knowing that there were people out there with tight-knit families really made my childhood an unfortunate one. | 101 |
| Victoria Smurfit | If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family. | 101 |
| Wong Kar-wai | My mother has a very big family in Shanghai, so I have, like, almost 40 cousins, so we stayed together all the time. So by the time I get to Hong Kong, I become the only child and the only one surrounded by adults, you know. | 101 |
| Agnes Smedley | Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster. | 101 |
| Albert Pujols | I'm thankful God has given us the technology where we can see each other through Skype on the computer. It's not the same thing, but at least we can see each other. Imagine the time before when that wasn't available and people had to go defend our country. It's really hard. I go two weeks without seeing my family and I go crazy. | 101 |
| Ann Hood | We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brother's winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips. | 101 |
| Anna Chlumsky | My family and school life are important to me. | 101 |
| Anthony Holden | When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue. | 101 |
| Ashton Shepherd | I'm thankful to God for having a family that's been there for me. He's been there from the time I was a child to even now with my family helping with my little boy. It's worth more than words could ever describe. That's one of the ways I've been able to stay grounded is thanks to family and God. | 101 |
| Charles Hodge | The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body. | 101 |
| Charles Perrault | After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood. | 101 |
| Dikembe Mutombo | I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values. | 101 |
| Drew Sidora | I love 'Braxton Family Values!' I love seeing a strong family unit striving for success while dealing with everyday struggles like everyone else. Whatever drama they find themselves in, they find a way to solve it and get back to the importance of family. A positive show for sure. | 101 |
| Eric Millegan | If you have a friend or a family member who's bipolar, or has panic attack disorder, or is depressed, read up on it a little bit so you can get to know where they're coming from. | 101 |
| Gary Sheffield | I wanted to retire after I played for the Mets. My family said wait one year, that there was no need to rush it. I gave it a year and now it's time to say goodbye. | 101 |
| Glenn Tipton | The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family. | 101 |
| Haywood Nelson | My family was my guide to my reality. | 101 |
| Henry Fonda | My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church. | 101 |
| Jami Attenberg | I actually didn't grow up in a household that loved Chinese food particularly, and it's not really my go-to food or anything... We were more a pizza family, being from the Chicago area and all. | 101 |
| Jenna Morasca | My advice: Take a second out of the day today and be thankful for your family. | 101 |
| Jodi Picoult | I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack. | 101 |
| Karl Marlantes | For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life. | 101 |
| Kay Hagan | The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren. | 101 |
| Kevin Powers | The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood. | 101 |
| LaToya Jackson | I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future. | 101 |
| Lauren Ambrose | Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries. | 101 |
| Liane Moriarty | Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based on them. I once had a character say that she never wanted to be invited to another children's birthday party, and I never received another children's birthday party invitation ever again. | 101 |
| LisaRaye McCoy-Misick | I've got to be able to get my time off whether it's just enjoying my house or the peace and quiet of my family and being there and cooking for them. I love doing that. I also love doing leisure things. I ride horses. I love to shop. I love to drive! | 101 |
| Liu Yang | Baby eagles can never soar under their family's wing. | 101 |
| Mike Mills | I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness. | 101 |
| Nacho Figueras | Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature. | 101 |
| Natassia Malthe | I'd like to someday see myself married to my true love and starting a big family, and at the same time still having an artistic job. | 101 |
| Patrick O'Brian | I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters. | 101 |
| Paul D. Boyer | Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures. | 101 |
| Poppy Delevingne | It would be ridiculous for me to say I am unlucky, but, like any other family and any other girl, I've had my ups and downs. | 101 |
| Prince Andrew | Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed. | 101 |
| Richie Sambora | I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy. | 101 |
| Rosa DeLauro | Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world. | 101 |
| Sheldon Adelson | If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell. | 101 |
| Tipper Gore | The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes. | 101 |
| Tony Shalhoub | I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week. | 101 |
| Bernice Weissbourd | Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports. | 101 |
| Bridget Moynahan | My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by love. | 101 |
| Buddy Hackett | As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. | 101 |
| Christopher Love | Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God. | 101 |
| Darius Rucker | We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family. | 101 |
| David Thewlis | I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying. | 101 |
| Eric Swalwell | I support gun safety measures, and I'll tell you, I grew up in a family of gun owners and hunters, and I went hunting with my dad as a kid, and you know, I have deep respect for the Second Amendment and the culture of our country. | 101 |
| Gertrude B. Elion | Over the years, my work became both my vocation and avocation. Since I enjoyed it so much, I never felt a great need to go outside for relaxation. Nevertheless, I became an avid photographer and traveler. Possibly my love for travel stems from the early years when my family seldom went away on vacation. | 101 |
| Gregg Sulkin | The Jewish community is all about love and family, which is the most important thing in my life, too. | 101 |
| Jared Padalecki | I'm so happy with my family, my career and my friends, and I'd like for them to be here forever, so I guess loss is what scares me the most. | 101 |
| Jeremih | I was raised on the Southside of Chicago, and my whole family was musically-inclined. | 101 |
| Joe Manchin | Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher. | 101 |
| Joaquin Phoenix | I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters. | 101 |
| Kim Ki-duk | A person's current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in. | 101 |
| Kristina McMorris | Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook featuring recipes my grandmother had collected and created over decades. While interviewing her for the biographical section, she began to talk about her courtship with my late grandfather. | 101 |
| Patrick Schwarzenegger | I'm very fortunate to have been raised in my family. I learned early about the importance of giving back. | 101 |
| Paula Broadwell | I grew up in a strong faith-based family. I think I have selected to return to those roots for strength, for my family, for myself and to protect our children and to forgive others and move on and face forward. | 101 |
| Ring Lardner | The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have. | 101 |
| Romeo Miller | Family always gonna be there. The material things, they come and go. | 101 |
| Ryan White | AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself. | 101 |
| Scott Ritter | One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you. | 101 |
| Tom DeLay | A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability. | 101 |
| Alan Thicke | Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness. | 101 |
| Alice Sebold | I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality. | 101 |
| Anwar Sadat | There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. | 101 |
| Arne Duncan | So instead of watching TV, we read every night together as a family. | 101 |
| Atticus Shaffer | I'm most passionate about anything to do with nature and the simple things. I love taking walks with my family or my friends and seeing nature. And that's why I love living where I live because I live up in the desert area in the mountains. | 101 |
| Beverly Lewis | Growing up around Amish farmland, I enjoyed the opportunity to witness firsthand their love of family, of the domestic arts - sewing, quilting, cooking, baking - as well as seeing them live out their tradition of faith in such a unique way. | 101 |
| Brenda Song | To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it's family or friends or co-workers, I think it's the most important thing. Whether you have success or don't have it, whether you're a good person is all that matters. | 101 |
| Caterina Murino | I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am lucky that I have such a good image of family life - my father and mother are still in love, still happy. | 101 |
| Cindy Morgan | I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends. | 101 |
| Dale Archer | Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify. | 101 |
| Dana Delany | In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there. | 101 |
| Douglass North | Our family life was certainly not intellectual. | 101 |
| Jenna Ushkowitz | I speak about family and adoption because it 100% changed my life and who I am. It definitely played a very large role into just learning how to be grateful for what you have and being fulfilled in a way that a lot of adopted kids don't feel. | 101 |
| Kevin Alejandro | I absolutely love spending time with my family. | 101 |
| Larry Bishop | I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important. | 101 |
| Larry Wilcox | Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction. | 101 |
| Mark Goddard | Life is about family and technology. | 101 |
| Michael Ealy | I would love to have a complete family. I'd love to do it all at once. I'd love to be able to give to my children what my parents were able to give to me. And if I'm blessed to be able to do that, fantastic. If I'm not, then life goes on. You have to do the best you can. I do think we have to bring the family back; I do. | 101 |
| Ricky Ponting | I want to be a dad, first and foremost. I want to be a good father. I've spent so much of my life on the move and travelling around the world that just to set up a home for my family and be a good dad is something that motivates me. | 101 |
| Stana Katic | My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and they managed to build a business, a family, and a future for their family. They didn't have any of the resources of people who have lived here for two or three generations. | 101 |
| Sung Kang | When I did 'Tokyo Drift,' a lot of the philosophy that Han lived by I have actually gone through in my own life. As I got older, I realized that I really believe in those philosophies, like the importance of family. | 101 |
| Thomas Carper | Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs. | 101 |
| Ann Turner | 'Hard Hit,' a YA collection of poems, explores the country of grief and survival. Mark, a 16-year-old boy and skilled pitcher, must confront the coming death of his beloved father with the help of his friends, family, baseball, and an idiosyncratic belief in God. I used my own experience of my parents' deaths to inform this journey. | 101 |
| Art Donovan | Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips. | 101 |
| Billy Williams | Mobile is a seaport town, and we ate a lot of seafood. We'd go fishing, we'd catch our fish and we'd eat our fish. It was a ritual on Saturday morning for all my family - my grandfather, my brothers, my uncles, my father - to go fishing, and then the ladies of the family would clean the fish and fry them up. | 101 |
| C. J. Cherryh | The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort. | 101 |
| Chris Froome | I know I'm British. I haven't spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasn't British, what would I be? I am British. | 101 |
| Daniella Monet | I am really close to my family. My cousin is my best friend! | 101 |
| Dave Checketts | Some people who know me might say, 'He's not a great example of a nice person; he's a malicious, tough and ruthless guy.' But when the day is done, as long as I've held to my values and been true to my family and my God, it won't matter what anyone else thinks. | 101 |
| Diana Lopez | I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for. | 101 |
| Dodie Smith | The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to. | 101 |
| Jennifer Ellison | Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded. | 101 |
| Jerry B. Jenkins | Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family. | 101 |
| Jess Glynne | I keep my head straight by having the right people around me, from my friends and family to my management and my team. They all keep me in my place. If I didn't have them supporting all the work that I do, I wouldn't be in such a solid place. | 101 |
| JoJo | I'm lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you. | 101 |
| Jon Corzine | No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty. | 101 |
| Jose Carreras | I have a wonderful shelter, which is my family. I have a wonderful relationship with my brother and sister; this makes me feel that I know always where I belong. | 101 |
| Josh Pais | My father was born in Amsterdam in a highly religious family. He was in Amsterdam, and he went into hiding right near where Anne Frank was. He was a theoretical physicist and the last Jew to get a Ph.D. in Amsterdam. | 101 |
| Manish Dayal | My family barbecued a lot; good barbecue is more complicated than you think. | 101 |
| Michael Imperioli | My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me. | 101 |
| Michael O'Brien | Whether one is Marian or Charismatic or both, or prays in one or more of the many other ways open to us, it is all a flow of love, if the heart is truly speaking to and listening to the Holy Trinity. Personally, I pray the Divine Mercy chaplet every day. We pray the Rosary every day in our family. | 101 |
| Mike Farrell | My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform. | 101 |
| Rima Fakih | We're a Muslim family, but we're also very cultured and we have a mixture of different religions. For example, my brother-in-law is Catholic, and my sister converted and my nephews are baptized. I have an uncle who just graduated and currently he's a priest. | 101 |
| Robert Morse | I lead a simple life. I get residuals. I have a family; we're doing alright. | 101 |
| Sunny Mabrey | I think of myself as a Hollywood hillbilly, but I'm sick of all these questions people ask about Alabama. 'Do you have an outhouse?' 'Is there a lot of inbreeding in your family?' They think all Southerners don't have computers and TV sets and that we're all still living in 1862. | 101 |
| Aleksa Palladino | Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place. | 101 |
| Amandla Stenberg | As a fan of the books, I feel fortunate to be part of 'The Hunger Games' family. It was an amazing experience; I am proud of the film and my performance. I want to thank all of my fans and the entire 'Hunger Games' community for their support and loyalty. | 101 |
| August Strindberg | That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all. | 101 |
| Constance Jablonski | The life of a model isn't easy. But I try to keep a good head on my shoulders by staying close to my family and old friends. They're my support system. | 101 |
| Duniya Vijay | What is wrong in getting divorced? If a couple is incompatible and just cannot stay married anymore, should they put on a show of togetherness just for the sake of society, or, for that matter, any extended family? | 101 |
| Jase Robertson | I'm just a simple guy. I love being at my house with my family, I love playing dominos and card games and hunting and fishing. That's just what I like to do. | 101 |
| Mary Kom | I started athletics in 1999, throwing discus and shot put. I didn't tell my family when I started boxing. | 101 |
| Mink Stole | Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family. | 101 |
| Mark Strong | My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly. | 101 |
| Rachael MacFarlane | I don't think that I could have survived in my family without a naughty sense of humor; yeah, absolutely. I think my brother and I both get our senses of humor from our parents. I mean, my mother was absolutely hilarious and foul. She had the most ridiculously off color sense of humor, so that was sort of what we grew up with. | 101 |
| Samantha Isler | Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family. | 101 |
| Sandrine Bonnaire | Our family makes us who we are, defines us totally. When you go to a therapist or have analysis, whatever reason you go in for, they will always bring you back to your family. We're strong or weak according to what family we have. You might have left them long ago, might not even talk to them, but something lingers; we have no choice. | 101 |
| Sister Parish | Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family. | 101 |
| Steve McFadden | It's an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and will be a moment in history that will always be remembered. I'm really looking forward to being out on the river with friends and family. To mark this historic moment will be extremely special. | 101 |
| Allan Ray | My off-the-field heroes, the people who gave me the values to live by and who inspired me with their hard work and unselfish dedication to their family, were my mom, Catherine, and my dad, William. | 101 |
| Joe Sakic | After 20 years in the game, I was fortunate to get away from the game and enjoy my family, which was great for me. | 101 |
| Margaret Drabble | Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place. | 101 |
| Mark Shriver | I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always came together as a family for that holiday, playing capture the flag and touch football and laughing a lot. | 101 |
| Matthew Underwood | Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice. | 101 |
| Max Martini | I want people to take the initiative to find veterans that need help, veterans that are suffering and in need of assistance reintegrating from combat back into society, into normal family lives and jobs. We need to take a real 'boots on the ground' approach to helping veterans in need. | 101 |
| Melonie Diaz | When I have kids, when I have a family and nieces and nephews, I'm gonna teach them to love more and be kinder and to not judge someone by the colour of their skin or any other thing. | 101 |
| Robert Buckley | Next to hurting my family, cheating on me is the worst thing someone could do. | 101 |
| Susan Lieberman | Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world. | 101 |
| Suzanne Weyn | Perfect happiness would be knowing that all my family and friends were happy and safe. Then I'd go to a tropical island with my husband where it was gorgeous and fun all day long and interesting and fun all evening. Good food and dancing would be nice, too, and weekly visits from those safe and happy family and friends. Plus world peace. | 101 |
| Jayson Williams | I give God all the glory. And try to move on. Come home and hug my wife and my children. And thank God for every day that I have with my family. | 101 |
| John Cheever | When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places. | 101 |
| Julia Sweeney | Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental. | 101 |
| Mary Decker | I can't complain about my life. I have a really nice life. I have a great family and I live in a gorgeous part of the country. | 101 |
| Julia Barr | We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved. | 101 |
| Marge Kennedy | Soup is a lot like a family. Each ingredient enhances the others; each batch has its own characteristics; and it needs time to simmer to reach full flavor. | 101 |
| Jo Beverley | When a gently born spinster has little money, her choices are few. She might receive an offer of marriage, but it's unlikely to be from a wealthy man, so she'll have a hard life trying to make ends meet for her growing family. | 101 |
| Jenna Boyd | Girls need to be strong and know how to stand up for themselves. Definitely having friends is a big part of it, so that they can help you through that, and a strong family. | 101 |
| Jordan Bridges | The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is given the opportunity to act at a young age and to learn what it's like to be in the business. | 101 |
| Julie Roberts | My Christmases have always just been very simple and about family. | 101 |
| Erma Bombeck | I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. | 102 |
| Princess Diana | Family is the most important thing in the world. | 102 |
| Ivanka Trump | People talk about balance. Balance is an awful measure of things because it implies a scale that inevitably tips. I like to look through the filter of, 'Is the life I'm leading consistent with my priorities?' For me, my family is the ultimate litmus test. | 102 |
| Jamie Lee Curtis | I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is. | 102 |
| Joel Osteen | Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year. | 102 |
| Al Sharpton | The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house. | 102 |
| Antonin Scalia | In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along. | 102 |
| Beau Bridges | And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs. | 102 |
| Barbara Bush | I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. | 102 |
| Benjamin Todd Jealous | Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families. | 102 |
| Brett Favre | And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on. | 102 |
| Camille Paglia | Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars. | 102 |
| Caroline Kennedy | It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul. | 102 |
| Carrie Fisher | There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming. | 102 |
| Christiane Amanpour | I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished. | 102 |
| Darren Aronofsky | I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life. | 102 |
| Dave Reichert | At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service. | 102 |
| David A. Bednar | A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met. | 102 |
| Dawn French | My best friend is the most important girl, outside of family, to me. I met her when I went to college and we bonded immediately. I'd do anything for her at any time. We phone each other every day. | 102 |
| Edie Falco | Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun. | 102 |
| Elizabeth Edwards | You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined. | 102 |
| Elizabeth Warren | Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house. | 102 |
| Ellen Hopkins | Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions. | 102 |
| Elliott Erwitt | I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph. | 102 |
| Eric Ries | Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance. | 102 |
| Frank Knox | God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease. | 102 |
| Gracie Gold | Red certainly is the family color. From my mother and my grandmother, I've learned a lot of little tricks - the significance of color and lipstick being one of them. I started skating when I was eight years old, and my mom did my makeup for me back then. | 102 |
| Harold Ramis | We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough. | 102 |
| Isla Fisher | Growing up, there wasn't much emphasis on being nice or naughty. As a family, there wasn't much discipline. It was more relaxed at home, which I'm grateful for. | 102 |
| Jackie Chan | I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting. | 102 |
| Kate Middleton | I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight. | 102 |
| Kate Moss | I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others. | 102 |
| Kathleen Turner | A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family. | 102 |
| Kylie Jenner | People think they have a perfect idea of who you are from a four-second Snapchat video... and fake blogs, stories, magazine covers. In reality, that's not the case. Nobody knows who I am except family and my close friends. | 102 |
| Lorde | I come from a big, loud family, and I'm the quieter one. Performing is something I have to switch on. I've heard I get real sassy onstage, which I'm not in real life! It's fun to be that person for an hour a night. | 102 |
| Luke Bryan | Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family. | 102 |
| Mario Batali | As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible. | 102 |
| Neneh Cherry | For me, making music is about my whole life. The basics, the components, simple things - family, living, just going to the market and getting new fruit and veg. That's what keeps my blood flowing. | 102 |
| Nik Wallenda | One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live. | 102 |
| Niklas Zennstrom | Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way. | 102 |
| Nicholas Kristof | One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot. | 102 |
| Olivier Martinez | It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love. | 102 |
| Paul Cellucci | Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family. | 102 |
| Richard Engel | 'Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored by the Assad family's operatives that the enforcers of the regime used to move money, smuggle weapons and intimidate opponents. | 102 |
| Shawn Mendes | There are times when I'm super-overwhelmed, and everything feels like it's hitting me in the face at once, but I think what's keeping me calm, and who I am by staying true to myself, is my whole family being so supportive and keeping me grounded. They treat me the exact same way they treated me years and years ago. | 102 |
| Taraji P. Henson | I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy. | 102 |
| Tim Vine | Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin. | 102 |
| Tyson Fury | I pray for forgiveness. For help and guidance. To be a better person. For the health of my family. For the world to be a better place. | 102 |
| Victoria Justice | Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you're not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family. | 102 |
| Virginia Satir | 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. | 102 |
| Warren G. Harding | Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. | 102 |
| Zakk Wylde | Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage. | 102 |
| Alex Haley | In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. | 102 |
| Andre Maurois | Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. | 102 |
| Andrew Dice Clay | 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. | 102 |
| Arlie Russell Hochschild | The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors; we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us. | 102 |
| Ashwin Sanghi | What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyone's ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be. | 102 |
| Bobby Jindal | On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been. | 102 |
| Carl Paladino | I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don't want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option - it isn't. | 102 |
| Chaz Bono | A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family. | 102 |
| Chris O'Donnell | I look to my family for my support. I'm fortunate to have a big family. | 102 |
| Chuck Berry | Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands... I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way. | 102 |
| Cindy Crawford | Our family room, where we live, is about togetherness and ease. Nothing in my house is too formal. There are no coasters on tables; the kids can eat Popsicles on the couch if they want to. I let them ride these little cycles we got for them when they were 3 that have rubber wheels and no pedals. | 102 |
| Dana Carvey | I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings. | 102 |
| David Walton | My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus. | 102 |
| Denise Mina | We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles. | 102 |
| Dionne Warwick | Brazil is where I belong, the place that feels like home. They love their family, their country and God, and are not afraid to let anybody know it. | 102 |
| Ellen Barkin | You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really. | 102 |
| Janet Jackson | I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that. | 102 |
| Jet Li | I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other. | 102 |
| John Boehner | Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local government, every state, knows they have to do a budget. | 102 |
| John Shelby Spong | I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people. | 102 |
| Kamisese Mara | The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy. | 102 |
| Li Na | I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around. | 102 |
| Lou Doillon | Luckily, I was raised by a kind of gypsy family, which is why I always get along better with people who worked in circuses than with kids of other actors. My mom was so carefree with us in a beautiful way. We were used to sleeping anywhere. | 102 |
| Lynda Resnick | Epilepsy is a disease in the shadows. Patients are often reluctant to admit their condition - even to close family, friends or co-workers - because there's still a great deal of stigma and mystery surrounding the disease that plagued such historical figures as Julius Caesar, Edgar Allan Poe and Lewis Carroll. | 102 |
| Mahendra Singh Dhoni | Since 2005, I have not spent much time with my family. In fact I have spent more time at the Taj Landsend in Mumbai. It was my 100th visit recently, which means I have spent more than 400 days in that hotel, and that is a lot more than I have spent with my family. | 102 |
| Martin O'Malley | The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members. | 102 |
| Michael Symon | My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner. | 102 |
| Patricia Ireland | When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line? | 102 |
| Paul Broun | I represent poor people, I represent working people. I represent senior citizens. I represent family businesses. I represent people who don't have the wherewithal to hire overpriced Washington lobbyists and lawyers. I want to send the powers back to the states and the people. | 102 |
| Rita Levi-Montalcini | The four of us enjoyed a most wonderful family atmosphere filled with love and reciprocal devotion. Both parents were highly cultured and instilled in us their high appreciation of intellectual pursuit. It was, however, a typical Victorian style of life, all decisions being taken by the head of the family, the husband and father. | 102 |
| Robert Byrd | One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family. | 102 |
| Roma Downey | Growing up in Ireland, when my family received important news, good or bad, we would boil water and make tea. It was the first thing I did when my father died in 1984. This ritual allowed me a moment to take in the enormity of what had happened. | 102 |
| Scott Baio | Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming. | 102 |
| Shirley Knight | There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about. | 102 |
| Suge Knight | I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period. | 102 |
| Summer Sanders | I watched some serious '80s television. 'Alice,' 'Good Times,' 'The Jeffersons,' 'Family Ties,' 'Cheers'... every night it was eat dinner, watch 'Cheers.' I was actually on 'Jeopardy' with Rebecca Lobo and Dot Richardson, and we were laughing because I was just nailing every random '80s trivia question - sitcom, theme music, movie, you name it. | 102 |
| Tina Yothers | I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life. | 102 |
| Amos Oz | I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world. | 102 |
| Anita Diament | The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. | 102 |
| Anna Chlumsky | I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year. | 102 |
| Arjun Rampal | Physical attributes can make you appealing, but to keep the appeal going, one has to draw from within. You have to be a real person. Your fans and the people you associate with have to be able to see beyond your looks. You have to be a good friend, dutiful son and a good family man. | 102 |
| Azim Premji | A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education. | 102 |
| Boman Irani | Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened. | 102 |
| Casey Affleck | My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark. | 102 |
| Chandra Wilson | I'm fortunate enough to have learned not to waste time getting frustrated with my kids, or co-workers, or friends and family for not doing everything I wish they would. If someone doesn't respond to me the way I want them to, I understand that it doesn't have anything to do with me. | 102 |
| Chris Noth | Everyone feels like family and I am back in the city that I love. | 102 |
| Courtney Thorne-Smith | You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters. | 102 |
| Edward Furlong | I don't think anyone has a normal family. | 102 |
| Elisabeth Hasselbeck | I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I'm spending the majority of my time. The answer to that question always needs to be 'with my family.' | 102 |
| Joshua Foer | Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most. | 102 |
| Kara Lindsay | Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend. | 102 |
| Karl Marlantes | When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting. | 102 |
| Kevin Powers | I think a lot of the guys I know and a lot of people I've talked to, what they want is very often what most people want, a kind of simple life, a livelihood, a family, people who care about them, people they can care about. I think vets on the whole want the same things that everybody else does. | 102 |
| Kirk Kerkorian | When you're a self-made man, you start very early in life. In my case it was at 9 years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited. | 102 |
| LaDainian Tomlinson | People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever. | 102 |
| Mike Honda | My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone. | 102 |
| Prince Andrew | The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society. | 102 |
| Sanjeev Bhaskar | I've always saved. I believe in keeping money back for a rainy day and living within my means. I don't buy expensive clothes; I have a 10-year-old car I'm hoping to replace when a big job comes in. I suppose when we do go on family holidays, I am quite happy to spend when we are there. | 102 |
| Terri Clark | When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too. | 102 |
| Thaksin Shinawatra | Enough is enough. Six years you serve the countries. You been working hard. You sacrifice your time even your life. And, even your family life. So it's, it's time for me to go back as a private citizen. And contribute to the Thai society outside political arena. | 102 |
| Tony Parsons | My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me. | 102 |
| Adrian Grenier | What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life. | 102 |
| Anita Baker | You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. | 102 |
| Basmah bint Saud | Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a 'khali' is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up. | 102 |
| Bruce Bueno de Mesquita | Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator. The dictator delivers opportunities for them to become rich, and they protect him from being overthrown. | 102 |
| Cote de Pablo | My priority is to hang out with the ones I love - my family, my loved ones. | 102 |
| Jacques Pepin | This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's very, very important, I think, for the kid to spend time not only around the table eating with their parents, but in the kitchen. | 102 |
| Jennifer Hudson | Family makes a house a home. | 102 |
| Joan Cusack | You know, I think I'm more of a micro-person, so to me, the context and the framework of trying to do what you love and feel passionate about, in supporting your family in that way, is the most important thing to me. | 102 |
| John Major | It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state. | 102 |
| Joseph Stiglitz | I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely. | 102 |
| June Carter Cash | This is the bunch of songs I did first, and it's just the type of thing I do. I am a Carter Family girl, so the record is book-ended with Carter Family songs. | 102 |
| Katharine Butler Hathaway | A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. | 102 |
| Matthew Gray Gubler | I never thought I'd be making a living off of acting - it's still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night. | 102 |
| Michael Weatherly | We are very excited about welcoming a new member of the family, a daughter! | 102 |
| Samantha Stosur | Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs. | 102 |
| Shereen El Feki | My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility, became a vicar in the Church of Wales. But my mother converted to Islam on marrying my father. She was not obliged to; Muslim men are free to marry ahl al-kitab, or people of the Book - among them, Jews and Christians. | 102 |
| Tig Notaro | It's almost embarrassing how much support I have. I mean, I always tell people I feel like I'm perfectly set up to have cancer. I have great health insurance, I have a savings account. I have work lined up. I have friends and family. I have the best doctors I can get. | 102 |
| Ben Roethlisberger | I try to live my life like my father lives his. He always takes care of everyone else first. He won't even start eating until he's sure everyone else in the family has started eating. Another thing: My dad never judges me by whether I win or lose. | 102 |
| Bobby Brown | Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children's life, I had to learn my lessons. | 102 |
| Clive Bell | Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind. | 102 |
| Catherine O'Hara | I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously. | 102 |
| David McCallum | If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence. | 102 |
| Dennis Wilson | The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music. | 102 |
| Elizabeth Fishel | Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be. | 102 |
| Manute Bol | I love my family. | 102 |
| Melissa Gilbert | My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction. | 102 |
| Pritam Chakraborty | I don't like talking unnecessarily, and my communication skills are zilch. I just can't converse with people. Maybe it's because of my stuttering or stammering, but I'm not confident of talking with people. I only talk to very close friends and family. | 102 |
| Sheena Iyengar | Life hands us a lot of hard choices, and other people can help us more than we might realize. We often think we should make important decisions using just our own internal resources. What are the pros and cons? What does my gut tell me? But often we have friends and family who know us in ways we don't know ourselves. | 102 |
| Akhmad Kadyrov | I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five. | 102 |
| Ann Robinson | The results of this survey are shocking and should be a wake-up call to men and women that drinking and smoking too much not only gives you a bad headache in the morning but can affect your ability to start a family. | 102 |
| Jose Carreras | I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction. | 102 |
| Sonia Rykiel | I am what I am. Before I was not so proud to make fashion. My family thought fashion wasn't very interesting. So I hid that. | 102 |
| Susannah York | Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend. | 102 |
| Anna Eshoo | I like a quiet evening with family or friends over, great food and great discussion and a lot of laughter. That's really what I think fills my tank. | 102 |
| James H. Douglas, Jr. | A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement. | 102 |
| Jasmine Guy | If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family. | 102 |
| Jean Dujardin | I like simple things. I like being in my family in the South and playing petanque. | 102 |
| Jean Reno | I'm a minimalist. I don't really need much to enjoy a good holiday - just my family and the bare essentials. | 102 |
| Amanda Borden | Gymnastics demands so much of our time. We train all week and travel and compete on weekends. The people you're surrounded by really become your second family, your best friends, your sisters. My coach was like a second mother for me. | 102 |
| John Salley | I was a vegetarian first. I had high blood pressure at 27, everybody in my family died of cancer, and I knew it was in the food, so I changed my diet. | 102 |
| Beyonce Knowles | For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It's where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that's very important to me. | 103 |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher. | 103 |
| Margaret Mead | Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. | 103 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family. | 103 |
| Andie MacDowell | As a single mother of four, my mother taught me that you always want to show up strong for the moments that really matter with family, friends, and community. I now recognize how her strength helped shape the person I am today and the mother that I have become. | 103 |
| Barry Goldwater | Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world. | 103 |
| Barbara Bush | Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family. | 103 |
| Bill Murray | While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did. | 103 |
| Charlize Theron | My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence. | 103 |
| Chris Kyle | I'm just trying to be the me that I am and not all of this other crap. I just want to be the family man, and if somehow I can make the money to get my ranch and get the hell away from everybody else, that would be awesome. | 103 |
| Emma Thompson | Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening. | 103 |
| Estelle | I come from a family of well-endowed booty women. | 103 |
| Ezra Miller | Family is this very deep, complex thing that for most people becomes everything. It informs your entire life. | 103 |
| Freya Stark | Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle. | 103 |
| George Foreman | When it gets to the part in life where you're more afraid of what your wife is going to do to you than if you box, say, Mike Tyson, you've got to get a new profession. You don't get to be a family. I know why boxers never quit, some of them. They don't have wives. | 103 |
| Gilbert Gottfried | My family originally lived in Brooklyn. Our first apartment was a little place above my father and uncle's hardware store in Coney Island. Now, don't get the impression that we were surrounded by merry-go-rounds, roller coasters and Ferris wheels. Nope, this was a little side street. | 103 |
| Harbhajan Singh | I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion. | 103 |
| Harlan Coben | What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes. | 103 |
| Igor Stravinsky | A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares. | 103 |
| Isabel Allende | Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country. | 103 |
| Isabel Wilkerson | What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude. | 103 |
| James Hetfield | 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. | 103 |
| John Lewis | Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family. | 103 |
| Karl Malone | I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation's Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out. | 103 |
| Kenny Chesney | It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports. | 103 |
| Lindsey Vonn | Skiing takes so much out of me, and when I start a family, I want to do it 100%. | 103 |
| Magic Johnson | Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people. | 103 |
| Mary Karr | If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada. | 103 |
| Niklas Zennstrom | Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way. If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype. | 103 |
| Norman Finkelstein | Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis. | 103 |
| Paul Allen | You've got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if you're involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life. | 103 |
| Rick Warren | It is mind-boggling to me that the Almighty power created everything I see; the Bible says that God created the entire universe just so he could create this galaxy just so he could create Earth so he could create human beings so he could create a family. | 103 |
| Sarah Jessica Parker | I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage. | 103 |
| Shirley Manson | I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered! | 103 |
| Sylvester Stallone | I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project. | 103 |
| T. E. Lawrence | Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression. | 103 |
| Vanilla Ice | One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life. | 103 |
| Viggo Mortensen | Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself. | 103 |
| Vivica A. Fox | I don't like to see projects that are all black or all white. It's how life is. I do like to make sure that I do a nice black family film; that's like keeping my home base. I do other things, but I like to always come back to a positive family film, because of all the negative influences today. | 103 |
| Zachary Quinto | My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family. | 103 |
| Adam Carolla | If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life. | 103 |
| Alexa Von Tobel | Kids can learn a lot about necessities and wants by recognizing what people live without. A common routine, but one that should not be overlooked, is having a family donation to a charity for those less fortunate. Ask your kids to search for items, toys, or clothes that they no longer use and contribute those items a collection box. | 103 |
| Bruce Feiler | The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps. | 103 |
| Buddy Valastro | Oh, my wife is a wonderful cook. She comes from a food-loving Italian family - her father owned a pizzeria! | 103 |
| Clive Owen | Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies. | 103 |
| Dan Savage | I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family. | 103 |
| Evelyn Glennie | Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way. | 103 |
| Gabrielle Union | 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. | 103 |
| Jessamyn West | Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. | 103 |
| Joseph Brodsky | Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. | 103 |
| Julian Baggini | Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality. | 103 |
| Laura Marano | I'm so thankful for my family and friends - they're really supportive. Everyone I work with on 'Austin & Ally;' the cast and crew are like my family now. We have so much fun, and I'm so happy they're in my life! | 103 |
| Marlon Wayans | I think family is key, and if you have love for family, then you have love for others - and you have unity as a people. | 103 |
| Martha Plimpton | It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits. | 103 |
| Nancy Friday | I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together. | 103 |
| Rick Pitino | The one thing I've always said: Let your family and close friends be the judge of who you are as a person. Don't worry about being judged by others who don't know you, because your family and close friends know what you're all about, good and bad. | 103 |
| Rick Santorum | You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies. | 103 |
| Sara Sheridan | My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an English/Irish/Catholic father, there is no form of guilt to which I was not subjected in my childhood. Members of my immediate family live all over the world - a diaspora of cousins, aunts, uncles and more in a dizzying mix. | 103 |
| Annette Funicello | Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today. | 103 |
| Bob Ehrlich | Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table. | 103 |
| Cat Cora | My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free. | 103 |
| Chaim Potok | All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. | 103 |
| Christina Milian | Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected. | 103 |
| David Rubenstein | What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.' | 103 |
| Darren Criss | When I was in college, I was in the theater department, which for anyone who has been involved in any kind of theater program, you know that it's really wacky and tight-knit, a real family. Me and my good friends from college would do random shows and plays that were sometimes serious, but most of the time really goofy and funny. | 103 |
| Dean Ornish | When you grow up in an extended family, or in a stable neighborhood with two or three generations of families who live there, you feel seen. Not just the good things you've done, the stuff you put on your resume. You know they've seen you in your dark times, when you've messed up - but they're still there. | 103 |
| George Weah | When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life. | 103 |
| Hans-Georg Gadamer | Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live. | 103 |
| Jake Gyllenhaal | I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy. | 103 |
| Joel Kinnaman | We're all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters' mothers are all good friends with my mother. We're a big family, 25 people. | 103 |
| Judi Dench | I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and I was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea. | 103 |
| Julianne Hough | I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first. | 103 |
| LaToya Jackson | I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise. | 103 |
| Ma Jian | I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I've found the sky of freedom above my head, I've lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations. | 103 |
| Neil Kurshan | Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone. | 103 |
| Rahul Dravid | A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to. | 103 |
| Suresh Raina | I have time only for cricket, and when I am not playing, I love to be at home, chat with my family, do puja with them, call for some yummy paani puri, etc. Also I love to cook. I can make dal, sabji and chicken! But, at home everybody's a vegetarian, so I can't cook non-veg at home! | 103 |
| Alyssa Milano | If you come from a solid family structure, it doesn't matter what you go through in your life. You're going to be okay. | 103 |
| Andrew Vachss | I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family. | 103 |
| Colbie Caillat | Talking with my friends and family every day helps keep me grounded and connected to home. They are the most important things to me. | 103 |
| Marissa Jaret Winokur | You would think with me living in Los Angeles I would go to the beach all the time, but we don't. It's the same as visiting the Statue of Liberty. If you don't live in N.Y.C., it's the first stop on your family vacation, but if you live there, you only go if you have relatives visiting from out of town! | 103 |
| Richard M. Daley | I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives. | 103 |
| Ronnie James Dio | My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education. | 103 |
| Sanjay Dutt | My entire family has been with the Congress right from the time of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Congress is in our blood and as a loyalist, I am always there for Congress. | 103 |
| Ted Strickland | Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values. | 103 |
| Ashley Olsen | Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family. | 103 |
| Camille Guaty | My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table. | 103 |
| Matthew Quick | When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent. | 103 |
| David Charvet | I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father, and trying to be a good father, I already have my work cut out for me. | 103 |
| J. Edgar Hoover | No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family. | 103 |
| Kevin Hart | My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about - having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character. | 104 |
| Marie Curie | I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy. | 104 |
| Athol Fugard | Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page. | 104 |
| Bil Keane | We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment. | 104 |
| Celine Dion | I'm so centered in feeling great about me that I can give great things to my son and my husband and my family. | 104 |
| Clayton Christensen | I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become. We can articulate the culture that we would want to exist in our family, and you can then, as the rest of life happens to you, you can utilize those things to help you become the kind of person you want to be. | 104 |
| Dee Dee Myers | As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes. | 104 |
| Donna Karan | I love skiing, I love the sun, I love my children, I love my grandchildren, I love my family and friends... and whatever I haven't done. | 104 |
| Enrique Pena Nieto | I see myself as a family man. | 104 |
| Fetty Wap | I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better. | 104 |
| Gisele Bundchen | When you come from a big family, you see that, growing up, you're learning how to share. Your sisters have got your back; you're not alone in this - 'We all support you!' Your family provides that; it gives you a sense of safety, and it's a very grounding feeling. | 104 |
| Henry B. Eyring | Heavenly Father has assigned us to a great variety of stations to strengthen and, when needed, to lead travelers to safety. Our most important and powerful assignments are in the family. They are important because the family has the opportunity at the start of a child's life to put feet firmly on the path home. | 104 |
| Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center. | 104 |
| Kellan Lutz | In L.A., I was meeting people who were all actors. My mind started to open up to what acting was. I didn't realize that Brad Pitt was a real person. I didn't think he was a robot or a machine, but I thought you were just born into acting - that it's a family tree, kind of like NASCAR. No one can just say, 'Hey, I'm going to be a NASCAR driver.' | 104 |
| Kerry Washington | The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river. | 104 |
| Kim Jong Il | The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background. | 104 |
| Meek Mill | If you don't have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the money in the world, but with no friends and no family, it's no good. | 104 |
| Narendra Modi | I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness. | 104 |
| NeNe Leakes | Most of the time my own family feels like I don't need anything, I'm tough as nails and I don't have any feelings about anything. They really think that I'm this super tough person. I have a tough exterior, but I get upset. I have feelings and all those things. I wear my heart on my sleeve. | 104 |
| Ray Dalio | Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine. | 104 |
| Robert Benchley | A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death. | 104 |
| Tony Abbott | For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family. | 104 |
| Zendaya | 'Shake It Up' definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family. | 104 |
| Alex Haley | When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. | 104 |
| Anne Graham Lotz | When the storms of life come, if they come to me personally, to my family or to the world, I want to be strong enough to stand and be a strength to somebody else, be shelter for somebody else. | 104 |
| Brian O'Driscoll | When you talk to family and friends, they can't tell you anything from an impartial point of view because they have a vested interest in you. | 104 |
| Brooke Burke | I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs. | 104 |
| Bruce Feiler | The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet. | 104 |
| Cheryl Hines | The suburbs are the American dream, right? Living in a nice house, having a good job, a happy family. | 104 |
| Cyndi Lauper | Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening! | 104 |
| Elizabeth Berkley | I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl. | 104 |
| Gina Rodriguez | I try to keep in mind that it's a long journey. It's not a race. It's about staying focused, continuing to do good work, make my family and community proud; that's all I really want to do... and pay my bills. | 104 |
| Grace Kelly | Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family. | 104 |
| Luanne Rice | Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we'll see that person again - or perhaps knowing that we won't. | 104 |
| Margaret Cavendish | Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton. | 104 |
| Michelle Bachelet | Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans. | 104 |
| Roma Downey | My dad used to sit me on his knee and read from the Bible to us. We were a praying family. Ours was a family of love and a family of prayer. | 104 |
| Sasha Grey | I sacrificed a lot, in terms of friendship and family, from working so much at such a young age, but I wouldn't be where I am if I hadn't. | 104 |
| Tom Vilsack | In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income. | 104 |
| Al Roker | I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family. | 104 |
| Biz Stone | Balancing family and work is a top priority for me, and I treat it as such. Meaning, I actually put specific family time and events in my calendar so that precious time is dedicated and properly blocked off from any work that may try to sneak its way into my schedule. | 104 |
| Carol Vorderman | There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years. | 104 |
| Jesse Tyler Ferguson | I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent. | 104 |
| John Oates | I have a great family, I live an amazing life. | 104 |
| John Piper | The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family. | 104 |
| Josh Homme | I'm in three bands, and I love to produce records of other bands, and I have a family that I love. I wanted to be everything for everybody and do all of that... I think I just really beat myself up until I got really sick and needed surgery, because it was physically manifesting itself. | 104 |
| Julian Lennon | Dad could talk about peace and love out loud to the world, but he could never show it to the people who supposedly meant the most to him: his wife and son. How can you talk about peace and love and have a family in bits and pieces - no communication, adultery, divorce? You can't do it, not if you're being true and honest with yourself. | 104 |
| Julius Erving | 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. | 104 |
| Kelly Slater | There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you can share with people. It's not just a solitary thing - it's become a family thing, too. It's about exercising and passing something on from father to son, and from mother to daughter. | 104 |
| Lisa Bonet | I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism. | 104 |
| Mariano Rivera | My father was strict and always taught me, no matter who it is, everybody is an uncle. To me, everybody was someone I respect like family. I grew up with that. | 104 |
| Michael Enzi | If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family. | 104 |
| Michael Ian Black | Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town. | 104 |
| Ryan Eggold | I love all my fam. I have quite possibly the best dad, mom, and sister in the world. | 104 |
| Abbe Pierre | My family background was deeply Christian. | 104 |
| Anna Neagle | No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes. | 104 |
| Anthony Anderson | I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house. | 104 |
| Jessica Savitch | Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus. | 104 |
| Ryan White | We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around. | 104 |
| Max Greenfield | I literally have over a thousand emails in my inbox that need to be returned. I'm sure all of my friends and certain family members are like, 'Oh, look who got nominated for an Emmy and doesn't want to write me an email back!' I need a good few hours to just sit and get on the phone. | 104 |
| Jean Reno | Sometimes I take the watch, or I take the shoes, but usually the souvenir is to take the life you had with those directors, or the crew - the camera person, the lighting person. When you finish a film it's like a little death. You had a family for a bit, and you finish the movie and you probably will never see each other again. | 104 |
| Joan Lunden | Our life is all about the choices we make, and when I was looking for a mate for life, I really was looking for someone who was a family man, somebody who would embrace my girls as much as they were going to embrace me. I guess I just wasn't finished having children yet. | 104 |
| Buddha | To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. | 105 |
| George Bernard Shaw | A happy family is but an earlier heaven. | 105 |
| Thomas Sowell | The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state. | 105 |
| John Lydon | Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name. | 105 |
| Brad Goreski | I love everything about the holidays: the decorations, the parties, and spending time with friends and family. What I love most is that feeling of giving back. Every bit counts. | 105 |
| Christopher Lasch | The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about. | 105 |
| Dee Dee Myers | No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle. | 105 |
| Gisele Bundchen | Some people start modeling because they want to be models and they want the parties and the recognition, and then there are people like me. I come from a simple family, and for me getting into modeling was a chance to make money and create a business. | 105 |
| Howard Gardner | The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning. | 105 |
| Kate Winslet | The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner; big family gatherings; and being able to go to the grocery store - if I can get those things in, I'm doing good. | 105 |
| Mario Andretti | Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that's really what it feels like. | 105 |
| Muhammad Yunus | Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women. | 105 |
| Nancy Gibbs | I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance. | 105 |
| Os Guinness | Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations. | 105 |
| Patti Davis | The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this. | 105 |
| Phil Robertson | Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanking God for the food He's provided means everything to us. Prayer is a natural part of our lives - not only around the dinner table, but all day long. | 105 |
| Sandra Bullock | I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity. | 105 |
| Stevie Nicks | My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers. | 105 |
| Willa Cather | Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. | 105 |
| Amiri Baraka | There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes! | 105 |
| Andre Leon Talley | When I was a young boy, growing up in Durham, North Carolina, the women in my family were truly passionate about their clothes; nothing was more beautiful to me than women dressing with the utmost, meticulous attention to accessories, shoes, handbags, hats, coats, dresses and gloves to attend Sunday church services. | 105 |
| Bobby Darin | My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys. | 105 |
| Charles Eastman | The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe. | 105 |
| Dave Eggers | It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent. | 105 |
| Emma Roberts | I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my family and run around play dress-up all the time. I think I was 4 when I told them I wanted to do movies. | 105 |
| Harmon Killebrew | My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.' | 105 |
| Karisma Kapoor | I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you. | 105 |
| Kevin DeYoung | God tells me that I need to provide for my family, discipline and teach my children, and love my wife as Christ loves the church. If I don't do that, I'm being unfaithful and sinful. | 105 |
| Mika Brzezinski | I don't want to impose rules on people, but you have only a short window, and you're sorely mistaken if you think you can put off having a family. It's very hard to find a good man, and it's never a 'good time' to have a baby if you have a career. | 105 |
| Mohsin Hamid | I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me. | 105 |
| Ricky Schroder | I always had a separate life than just my work. I built my own family. I have my own hobbies and interests. I have a ranch with livestock and horses. I didn't always get my self-esteem and identity from acting. I never worked unless I wanted to. I never did anything just to do it, just for the paycheck. I always did things that I liked. | 105 |
| Steven Curtis Chapman | I did nothing to deserve God's love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God's family. | 105 |
| Angie Stone | I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food. | 105 |
| David Mixner | Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home. | 105 |
| Jane Smiley | The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews. | 105 |
| Jenna Morasca | Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they're driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you. | 105 |
| Mark Udall | It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it's running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business. | 105 |
| Stanislav Grof | Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe. | 105 |
| Brandi Chastain | I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun. | 105 |
| Regina King | I stay in tune with my family and God. | 105 |
| Stephenie Meyer | I always write things that entertain me, and one of the things that I find really enjoyable to explore is the idea of love. I like looking at my own life and my friends and family and how love changes who you are. It fascinates me. | 105 |
| Jim Fowler | The other thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your family, it doesn't matter if it's a recession or not, you can include that in your quality of life. | 105 |
| Joe Baca | Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives. | 105 |
| Pope John Paul II | The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. | 106 |
| Alec Baldwin | My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish. | 106 |
| Billy Joel | Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand. | 106 |
| Chris Kyle | I really don't care what people think of me. I've got my family. I've got my friends. Yes, I have been trained to be a little more aggressive if I need to be, but I don't go around thumping people. | 106 |
| Christopher Lasch | When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. | 106 |
| Don Rickles | I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important. | 106 |
| Earl Nightingale | 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. | 106 |
| Eric Burdon | I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had rationing. We couldn't buy meat, we couldn't buy pleasurable goods like cigarettes and sweets. I didn't starve - my family were lucky - but I knew what it was like standing in line waiting for foodstuffs. | 106 |
| Ezra Taft Benson | Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family activities, and family budgeting. Don't be stingy with your time or with your means. Give her the opportunity to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially as well as spiritually. | 106 |
| Gwyneth Paltrow | My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much. | 106 |
| Harry Browne | Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free. | 106 |
| Heidi Klum | I'm a big believer in to-do lists. I think of five things in the shower. I set goals and get my work done, but I have to plan for fun things, too. I'm always thinking about what will make my family happier. So I set up playdates and trips. | 106 |
| Hugh Jackman | I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of. | 106 |
| Ice T | My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude. | 106 |
| Jennifer Aniston | Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing. | 106 |
| Jerry Falwell | When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit. | 106 |
| Jim Carrey | 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. | 106 |
| Justin Trudeau | I have a very difficult, high-pressured job. Everyone knows how challenging it is to balance family responsibilities with a job that takes me across the country and working extremely hard. | 106 |
| Khloe Kardashian | I don't think anybody should ever take their life for being bullied. But if it wasn't for my family... and my circle of friends, I could definitely see why someone would see it doesn't get any better than this, but it does. Life is so beautiful. | 106 |
| Malcolm Gladwell | I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church. | 106 |
| Nicholas Sparks | My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving. | 106 |
| Nicole Kidman | Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family. | 106 |
| Olly Murs | I know I'm really lucky to do what I do, but sometimes with the hours and the travelling, I don't get to see my family and friends as much as I'd like. It can be lonely on the road. Sometimes I come offstage after a massive adrenaline rush, and then when I go to an empty hotel room on my own, it can be an anti-climax. | 106 |
| Paul Pierce | Life changes when you have a child, when you have your own family. You become more careful about what you do. You're not going to be out late, going out to clubs, hanging out with your friends. You're going to be at home, taking care of your daughter, playing with her. | 106 |
| Pink | I'm very much in the trenches, and I don't live in the lap of luxury. I come from a working-class military family. We watch the news and read the paper and vote, so there's always something to be upset about. I always have a certain amount of angst in my back pocket. | 106 |
| Prince William | We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that. | 106 |
| Richard Avedon | How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people. | 106 |
| Ronaldinho | Football is a great love because I was born into a family of players and therefore born into football. I'm fortunate to have a style of play that a lot of people like. It's a privilege to be able to do what I like best and in my own way, but I'm fortunate that people like it, and that motivates me even more. | 106 |
| Serena Williams | Tennis just a game, family is forever. | 106 |
| Shah Rukh Khan | I have lived in Mumbai for more than 20 years, have my domicile here, my home and family here. | 106 |
| Shaun White | We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them. | 106 |
| Wilfrid Laurier | Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel. | 106 |
| Yo-Yo Ma | 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. | 106 |
| Bruce Feiler | Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too. | 106 |
| Calvin Trillin | The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. | 106 |
| Christie Brinkley | At Thanksgiving, I always start at the top of my list and say I'm grateful for friends, family, and good health. Then I get more superficial... like being thankful for my Louboutins. | 106 |
| Jane Fonda | I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him. | 106 |
| Jet Li | My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy. | 106 |
| John Boehner | I grew up in a big family. You have to learn to get along with each other... get things done as a family. | 106 |
| Kimora Lee Simmons | Women call me all the time and tell me, 'You inspired me to get out of a bad situation,' or 'You inspired me to take the reigns for myself and go and do this.' I try to tell people to live their best life, and do what you know you need to do for yourself and your family. You need to be supported. | 106 |
| Maria Shriver | You don't wanna walk around and say, 'I'm somebody's niece, I'm somebody's cousin, I'm somebody's daughter. Who are you?' And I think that's always the challenge when you grow up in a well-known family, is ultimately, you have to face yourself in the mirror and say, 'Who are you? What have you done?' | 106 |
| Mary-Kate Olsen | I like change. I've never really had much consistency in my life, you know, from everyday work to my living situation to whether or not I'm going to be in L.A. The one constant thing in my life is my friends and family, which is all I need. | 106 |
| Michele Bachmann | I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness. | 106 |
| Nastassja Kinski | I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family. | 106 |
| Scott Weiland | It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family. | 106 |
| Julius Erving | But you know, we have a very normal family. We've had our ups and downs. You know, we've had our issues, but we've had great cause for celebration. | 106 |
| Taslima Nasrin | I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges. | 106 |
| Aly Raisman | I feel like I'm really blessed and lucky that I have a very good social life outside of the gym, and I have a really amazing family. My parents are so supportive. I have a younger brother and two younger sisters, and they're really awesome. So I feel like I get the best of both worlds. | 106 |
| Lawrence G. Lovasik | The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society. | 106 |
| Maureen O'Hara | I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for. | 106 |
| Jung Chang | When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family. | 106 |
| Wayne Dyer | You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth. | 107 |
| John Lydon | Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly. | 107 |
| Lady Gaga | It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family. | 107 |
| B. B. King | Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway. | 107 |
| Chevy Chase | Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else. | 107 |
| Donald Knuth | I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux. | 107 |
| Edwin Land | If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps. | 107 |
| Eric Clapton | Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family. | 107 |
| Ezra Taft Benson | Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children. | 107 |
| Harry Styles | I've got a really good family; I've got great friends around me. | 107 |
| Helena Bonham Carter | My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen. | 107 |
| Henry Louis Gates | If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating. | 107 |
| John Lasseter | You can achieve all the things you want to do, but it's much better to do it with loved ones around you; family and friends, people that you care about that can help you on the way and can celebrate you, and you can enjoy the journey. | 107 |
| Lee Iacocca | No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? | 107 |
| Marina Abramovic | People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can't; it's impossible. | 107 |
| Padma Lakshmi | In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends. | 107 |
| Peter York | Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures were sacred - Potter, Milne and the rest. Even concerned parents who knew Freud and Jung never saw the contradictions in feeding us on them. | 107 |
| Pope John XXIII | The family is the first essential cell of human society. | 107 |
| Randy Pausch | The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets. | 107 |
| Saul Alinsky | A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family. | 107 |
| Seth MacFarlane | The way Disney characters move, they're very kind of slow and fluid and flowing; one pose kind of eases into the next. If you look at a show like 'The Simpsons' and subsequently a show like 'Family Guy' - the characters will jerk from pose to pose a lot, a bit more snappy. Which sort of goes along with the writing tone of the show. | 107 |
| Wole Soyinka | One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What happens in Darfur becomes an assault on my own community, and on me as an individual. That's what the human family is all about. | 107 |
| Barbara Corcoran | I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun. | 107 |
| Ben Harper | I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music. | 107 |
| Charles Dudley Warner | Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration. | 107 |
| Doris Day | I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven. | 107 |
| Eric Bana | I love being at home, being with friends and family. I'm of European stock, brought up in Australia. I'm a passionate guy. I just love life. | 107 |
| Madeleine M. Kunin | Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline. | 107 |
| Mario Testino | Even someone as photographed and aware of the camera as members of the royal family needs to feel completely comfortable if they are to look their best. | 107 |
| David Mixner | My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days. | 107 |
| LaToya Jackson | When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family. | 107 |
| Sam Abell | My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky. | 107 |
| Bernard Meltzer | If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself. | 107 |
| Pope John Paul II | To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others. | 108 |
| Joyce Meyer | I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you. | 108 |
| Snoop Dogg | What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time. | 108 |
| Bill Cosby | The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them. | 108 |
| Charles Barkley | My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'. | 108 |
| Christopher Lasch | It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life. | 108 |
| David Beckham | I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father. | 108 |
| Eric Clapton | I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself. | 108 |
| Gisele Bundchen | There is good in everything; it's just how you choose to look at it. Everything that's worth it has a price. For me to be a model - I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow. | 108 |
| Gordon Ramsay | There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family. | 108 |
| Jim Carrey | Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches. | 108 |
| John Cena | I hang out with a lot of the people I did when I was in high school, when I was in college, and I have a strong unit of people around me, whether it be friends or family, and if my head gets too big, they will definitely check me immediately. | 108 |
| Mike Birbiglia | I love pizza. I want to marry it, but it would just be to eat her family at the wedding. | 108 |
| Will Durant | The family is the nucleus of civilization. | 108 |
| Winona Ryder | It's equally as important to me to be a good friend and a good sister and a good daughter. I'm very close with my family and friends. | 108 |
| Adam Weishaupt | The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men. | 108 |
| Cary Grant | Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. | 108 |
| Gloria Estefan | My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple's double - she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the '20s, '30s and '40s in the kitchen for my grandmother. | 108 |
| James Brown | Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that. | 108 |
| Jessica Lange | For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home. | 108 |
| Jessie J | It's really important to me that my niece and nephews can come and see my show, as can my grandad and nan. I love spending time with my family, and music has always bonded us. | 108 |
| Jonathan Sacks | Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went. | 108 |
| Kristen Bell | I don't like staying in hotels. I like to be in my own bed. San Diego as a city is really awesome. The only hard part of it for me is that I'm away from my family and my house. But as far as shooting down there, we get amazing locations, and the crew is really, really stellar down there. They are really fun. | 108 |
| Matthew Perry | I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their godfather, and that's one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them. | 108 |
| Michael Schumacher | The first thing, when I got the money, I knew I would support somebody. And the person I supported was my family. Because we were really in debt with the money. And - so I gave to my father this suitcase full of money. And he couldn't believe it. And that was something very special. | 108 |
| Melissa Etheridge | I'm very fortunate that I have a wonderful family around me and loved ones. | 108 |
| Bernie Sanders | Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early childhood education. | 109 |
| Gloria Steinem | Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us. | 109 |
| John Wooden | The most important thing in the world is family and love. | 109 |
| Kid Cudi | My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family home in a middle-class suburb. That doesn't mean I didn't experience hardship, but to me it's not about that, it's about the future and where we are trying to take it. | 109 |
| Lionel Messi | I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream. | 109 |
| Selena Gomez | I want someone honest, someone who's very sweet to my family and friends, and polite to the other people around me. | 109 |
| Adriana Lima | I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone. | 109 |
| Amy Grant | Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times. | 109 |
| Cara Delevingne | Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it. | 109 |
| Elizabeth Edwards | It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home. | 109 |
| Erykah Badu | I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my parents were never able to do. I'm blessed to do anything I want, so I decide to take the best care of my body and my family in the same way. Holistically. Vitally. | 109 |
| Hugh Laurie | Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death. | 109 |
| Khaled Hosseini | I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter. | 109 |
| Lil' Kim | I love spending time with my dog, my niece and my family. I'm very family-oriented. | 109 |
| Luke Bryan | I grew up in a family where everybody had a good time and we were at the lake every weekend and going to the beach and living a good life. It's been the way we always lived, and my wife's the same way - enjoy every day and have fun. | 109 |
| Manny Pacquiao | My #1 driving force is my lord and savior Jesus Christ. Also my family, my wife and children. | 109 |
| Marlee Matlin | 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. | 109 |
| Sophia Bush | I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid. | 109 |
| Tom Hardy | I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been. | 109 |
| Tom Hodgkinson | Festivals are fun for kids, fun for parents and offer a welcome break from the stresses of the nuclear family. The sheer quantities of people make life easier: loads of adults for the adults to talk to and loads of kids for the kids to play with. | 109 |
| Twyla Tharp | My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching. | 109 |
| Walter Bagehot | A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. | 109 |
| Amy Adams | I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays. | 109 |
| Bill Rancic | So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values. | 109 |
| J. Michael Straczynski | For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people. | 109 |
| Jeremy Lin | Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted. | 109 |
| John Boehner | And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way. | 109 |
| John le Carre | I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit. | 109 |
| Leighton Meester | When I do get free time, I spend a lot of it at home with my family and my close friends and I think that's what keeps me happy, healthy, grounded, and totally in check. | 109 |
| Shailene Woodley | Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not. | 109 |
| Jake Gyllenhaal | I think family is the most important thing in the world. I think your own family is the most complicated thing in the world, and I think it's the most beautiful thing in the world. | 109 |
| Jodi Picoult | I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess. | 109 |
| Suresh Raina | I've always wanted to buy a sports car. After the England series, I went up to my dad and said that I wanted to buy a sports car and got his consent. On his birthday, I surprised him by bringing it home. It's a Porsche Boxter Limited Edition, and my family was thrilled to see it. | 109 |
| Radhanath Swami | In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity. | 109 |
| Lil Wayne | I want to make sure my family's straight. | 110 |
| Toni Morrison | I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man. | 110 |
| Charles R. Swindoll | A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. | 110 |
| Bernie Siegel | We participate and are responsible for a lot of the things that happen to us. If you hate your job, you are much more likely to get sick and die at a younger age than someone who's happy at work and has a nice family life and is mentally well adjusted. | 110 |
| Brad Pitt | I'm satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much. | 110 |
| Celine Dion | My kids give me the balance to live right. | 110 |
| Christopher Lasch | The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time. | 110 |
| H. Rap Brown | The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him. | 110 |
| Hope Solo | I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can. | 110 |
| Howard Schultz | I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream. | 110 |
| Jerry Falwell | We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle. | 110 |
| John Forbes Nash, Jr. | To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives. | 110 |
| Julie Andrews | I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about. | 110 |
| Khloe Kardashian | I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies it's because of a deeper-rooted issue - either their family life is tough or they're being bullied by someone bigger than they are. | 110 |
| Liam Neeson | I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning. | 110 |
| Megan Fox | I'm not a big family person. I'm more of a loner. | 110 |
| Mike Krzyzewski | I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it. | 110 |
| Pete Seeger | I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany. | 110 |
| Tom Hodgkinson | Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun? | 110 |
| Troy Polamalu | I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime. | 110 |
| Willie Nelson | I grew up across the street from, you know, the Villarias, which was a great Mexican family there. In fact, there was three houses right across the street from me. So, day and night, I listened to Mexican music, and I'm sure, you know, my guitar playing, singing, writing, whatever, has a lot of Mexican flavor there, but it comes natural. | 110 |
| Dada Vaswani | The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips. What is involved is love for the entire family that one is marrying into. | 110 |
| Gwen Stefani | At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family. | 110 |
| James Taylor | People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down. | 110 |
| John James Audubon | Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy. | 110 |
| Jonathan Sacks | Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen. | 110 |
| Mario Testino | There is something about Prince William and Prince Harry that brings real modernity to the British royal family. They are also very open, human, and kind, and this is what I have tried to capture in the pictures I have taken of them as well as in my pictures of Prince William and Catherine. | 110 |
| Mehmet Oz | In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient. | 110 |
| Patty Duke | I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now. | 110 |
| Christopher Hitchens | And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home. | 111 |
| Marian Wright Edelman | Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am. | 111 |
| Michael Jackson | I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work. | 111 |
| Adam Savage | Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them. | 111 |
| Al Sharpton | I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values. | 111 |
| Alicia Keys | I don't have a ton of friends, but the friends I have are great ones. I don't have huge family, but the family I have is a great one. | 111 |
| Amy Winehouse | I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends. | 111 |
| Cesar Millan | When looking to adopt a new dog, the most important thing to consider is always the energy of the dog and how the dog will fit in with your lifestyle and your family. | 111 |
| Elizabeth Warren | In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat. | 111 |
| George Clooney | I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency. | 111 |
| Giada De Laurentiis | My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me - their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded. | 111 |
| Gwyneth Paltrow | Creating a meal for my friends and family, sitting together, eating, laughing and talking - that is when I am so happy. Oh my God, if you could see how much food I make - I am the original Jewish mother. | 111 |
| Joseph Smith, Jr. | A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race. | 111 |
| Mario Andretti | Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it. | 111 |
| Mark Wahlberg | For me, family always comes first; I would do anything to protect them. | 111 |
| Martha Stewart | Doing projects really gives people self-confidence. Nothing is better than taking the pie out of the oven. What it does for you personally, and for your family's idea of you, is something you can't buy. | 111 |
| Paris Hilton | When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover. | 111 |
| Richard Avedon | What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people. | 111 |
| Sandra Bullock | You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. | 111 |
| Steven Pinker | Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role for religion in public life, laissez-faire economic policies, private ownership of guns and relaxed conditions for using them, less regulation and taxation, and a valorization of the traditional family. | 111 |
| Amy Tan | At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing about emotional confusion with my mother related to our different beliefs. Hers was based in family history, which I didn't know anything about. I always felt hesitant in talking about Chinese culture and American culture. | 111 |
| Ayelet Waldman | During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning. | 111 |
| Derrick Rose | It's tough growing up where I grew up. My family is very small and really tight. Just being around the neighborhood, my brothers were always around. I didn't want to be in any trouble because I knew my mom or brothers would find out. I didn't want to hurt their feelings. I just tried to do everything right. | 111 |
| Hoda Kotb | If you have a friend or family member with breast cancer, try not to look at her with 'sad eyes.' Treat her like you always did; just show a little extra love. | 111 |
| Richard G. Scott | Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them. | 111 |
| Barack Obama | It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label. | 112 |
| Kanye West | I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food. | 112 |
| Desmond Tutu | God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion. | 112 |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. | 112 |
| Frank Sinatra | I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually. | 112 |
| George Eliot | Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. | 112 |
| Stephen Bannon | I come from a blue-collar, Irish Catholic, pro-Kennedy, pro-union family of Democrats. | 112 |
| Virat Kohli | The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison. | 112 |
| Chanakya | He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy. | 112 |
| Jim Valvano | People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too. | 112 |
| John Ruskin | Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. | 112 |
| Adam Sandler | I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that. | 112 |
| Ariana Grande | I don't feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I've always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don't fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home. | 112 |
| Blake Lively | I came from a big family - two brothers and two sisters. So, there were always a ton of boys around and a ton of girls around. So, I grew up comfortable with both sexes. | 112 |
| Camille Paglia | I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream. | 112 |
| Carrie Underwood | I love being around my friends and my family and spending time with my husband. I like being normal and recharging my batteries, and I feel like I have the coolest job in the world where I get to get on stage and perform and get to do a lot of really amazing things. | 112 |
| Deepika Padukone | I am not very comfortable about dancing at weddings and New Year parties. Maybe it's because of the way I have been brought up; I wouldn't want my family to feel that cringe moment. Dance is an art for me. | 112 |
| Douglas Coupland | People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own. | 112 |
| John Cleese | Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators and competitors, bring up a family and have friends. That's not enough any more, and I think that is absolutely tragic - and I'm not exaggerating - that people feel like a decent, ordinary, fun life is no longer enough. | 112 |
| Jose Rizal | I may be what my enemies desire me to be, yet never an accusation are they able to hurl against me which makes me blush or lower my forehead; and I hope that God will be merciful enough with me, to prevent me from committing one of those faults which would involve my family. | 112 |
| Martin Scorsese | A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father. | 112 |
| Nicole Scherzinger | I definitely have the eye of the tiger. I've fought my way to where I am and will continue to do so. I'm a hard worker - I get it from my family. We only know work. Nothing was handed to us. When I believe in something, I go after it. It's very hard to tell me 'no.' | 112 |
| Sofia Vergara | Sometimes it can be bad to have too much family. Everybody gets involved in your problems, giving their opinion, gossiping, and making drama. But when bad things happen, they will be there to support you. | 112 |
| Sophia Bush | Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are. | 112 |
| Randeep Hooda | My mom often tells me to get married, but she gets it now that I don't want to. Like any other mom, she is worried, but she also understands the demands of my profession. I am blessed to have a family like this. | 112 |
| Ron Reagan | The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book. | 112 |
| Jonathan Davis | When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind. | 112 |
| Richard G. Scott | The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world. | 112 |
| Barack Obama | Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest. | 113 |
| Walt Disney | A man should never neglect his family for business. | 113 |
| Kendrick Lamar | My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family. | 113 |
| Adam Sandler | Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show. | 113 |
| Barbara Bush | Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way. | 113 |
| Chris Brown | Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family. | 113 |
| Havelock Ellis | The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. | 113 |
| Henry Louis Gates | So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. | 113 |
| Hulk Hogan | The fans know what's happened to me over the past couple of years. I lost my family. I pretty much got devastated financially and the fans know that I've had some hard times - and that's the nature of loyal fans. They want to see the people that they love and believe in get back on their feet. | 113 |
| Kid Rock | I am an avid hunter and marksman, and I will not hesitate to shoot anyone who has myself or family in fear for our lives. | 113 |
| Lupe Fiasco | In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront. | 113 |
| Penelope Cruz | I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children. | 113 |
| Reba McEntire | My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world. | 113 |
| Jeanne Moreau | I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self. | 113 |
| Saina Nehwal | Unlike most youngsters who have school as their 'second home' where they meet and make friends, for me playtime has been at the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad. When I am not playing a tournament, my days are spent at the Academy with my coaches, physiotherapists and colleagues, who are like family. We laugh and have so much fun. | 113 |
| Leo Tolstoy | All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. | 114 |
| Jackie Kennedy | The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future. | 114 |
| Chris Kyle | You're in a combat zone one day. You come home, and then you have to readjust, and it takes a few days. We just sit in the house, hang with the family and then things get better. | 114 |
| Deepika Padukone | I have a lot of friends, but my biggest fear is loneliness. I miss my family in Mumbai, and my biggest nightmare every day is to go back home alone. | 114 |
| Eartha Kitt | I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans. | 114 |
| Francis Ford Coppola | I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school. | 114 |
| Helen Mirren | I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them. I don't necessarily feel that way anymore. I'm still ambivalent, I still loathe the British class system, and the Royal family are the apex of the British class system. | 114 |
| John Lasseter | Sunday, for me, is all about being home with the family with no plans. | 114 |
| Rose Kennedy | Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,' you ask? I don't know... I've had so much, a son as president, two as senators, a son-in-law who's an ambassador... perhaps God doesn't permit that much. | 114 |
| Saint Francis de Sales | Through devotion, your family cares become more peaceful, mutual love between husband and wife becomes more sincere, the service we owe to the prince more faithful, and our work, no matter what it is, becomes more pleasant and agreeable. | 114 |
| Shaquille O'Neal | Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family. | 114 |
| T.I. | At the end of the day, I got to live my life for my family, for my children, and I'm going to do what's best for them. | 114 |
| Ted Nugent | I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me. | 114 |
| Yoko Ono | I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it. | 114 |
| Akshay Kumar | No one has got close enough to use or abuse me, and even if they did, I wouldn't get too emotional about it. The only thing I ever get emotional about is my family. I am kind to everyone but I trust no one. That keeps me from getting hurt. | 114 |
| Jessica Lange | I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden. | 114 |
| Barbara Bush | Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships. | 115 |
| Cara Delevingne | I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded. | 115 |
| Dwight L. Moody | A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know. | 115 |
| Eddie Vedder | Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane. | 115 |
| Gordon Ramsay | I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man. | 115 |
| Jeff Foxworthy | 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.' | 115 |
| Les Dawson | The mother-in-law is the centre of a family. | 115 |
| Patrick Henry | I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion. | 115 |
| Richard Pryor | Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love. | 115 |
| Steve Carell | 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. | 115 |
| Akshay Kumar | Work is work, but family is for life. That's what really matters to me. | 115 |
| Paula Abdul | For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help. | 115 |
| Conor McGregor | That's what I do this for, to secure my family's future. I don't care about anything else. I'm able to spoil people, and that's the best thing. | 116 |
| Jerry Seinfeld | There is no such thing as fun for the whole family. | 116 |
| Queen Elizabeth II | Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements. | 116 |
| Tim Burton | My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think. | 116 |
| Ai Weiwei | Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you. | 116 |
| Brad Pitt | A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all. | 116 |
| Charles B. Rangel | The U.S. Congress can do a lot to support America's workplaces and the family. By working together in a bipartisan fashion, we can ensure our constituents get jobs they need while helping employers make smart decisions about their workforce. | 116 |
| Dave Grohl | Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don't. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He's a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life. | 116 |
| Ezra Taft Benson | Your most important friendships should be with your own brothers and sisters and with your father and mother. Love your family. Be loyal to them. Have a genuine concern for your brothers and sisters. | 116 |
| Fred Allen | I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. | 116 |
| Gordon Ramsay | My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I'm tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It's hilarious. So we decided that I'm going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family. | 116 |
| Harry Styles | I can see how you could get dragged into the bad stuff, but I've got good friends around me, good family. I think I've got my head screwed on. | 116 |
| 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. | 116 |
| Kyle Chandler | I work six months and get three or four with the family. I've stopped racing to get to the red light. | 116 |
| Madonna Ciccone | On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on. | 116 |
| Akshay Kumar | Always think twice before you decide to do anything for a film. It may seem like a career-changing idea, but think of your family and your future before doing anything risky. Train properly, because looking strong and being strong are two different things. | 116 |
| Antonio Tabucchi | I live quietly at home among my family and friends. | 116 |
| Cameron Diaz | I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows. | 116 |
| Jeffrey Kluger | Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold. | 116 |
| Thich Nhat Hanh | If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace. | 117 |
| David Ogilvy | 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. | 117 |
| Mark Zuckerberg | Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now. | 117 |
| Dan Gable | My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws. | 117 |
| Don Marquis | I would rather start a family than finish one. | 117 |
| Elizabeth Gilbert | Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family. | 117 |
| Kevin O'Leary | Working 24 hours a day isn't enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be successful, including your personal life, your family life, maybe more. If people think it's any less, they're wrong, and they will fail. | 117 |
| Marco Rubio | We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have. | 117 |
| Marcus Samuelsson | Weekends are sacred for me. They're the perfect time to relax and spend time with family and friends. | 117 |
| Michael Caine | I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier. | 117 |
| Sachin Tendulkar | I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage. | 117 |
| Thomas Hardy | I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on. | 117 |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate. | 117 |
| Ice Cube | What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out. | 118 |
| Steve Harvey | All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love. | 118 |
| Alfred Adler | In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family. | 118 |
| B. B. King | The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it. | 118 |
| Emo Philips | Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day. | 118 |
| Ezra Taft Benson | The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children. | 118 |
| Heath Ledger | Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends. | 118 |
| Patrick Henry | 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. | 118 |
| Jeffrey Kluger | There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family. | 118 |
| Dan Quayle | 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. | 119 |
| Hillary Clinton | If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable - practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust. | 119 |
| Robert Frost | The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended. | 119 |
| Steve Harvey | I don't have 'The Jerry Springer Show'. I just got 'Family Feud', but some of them families, when they lose, man, they have some real conversations with each other back behind that wall, but I've never been involved in any of them. | 119 |
| Adam Sandler | My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there. | 119 |
| Alan Dershowitz | I never had a strategy about my life. I didn't have enough information to have a strategy. I'm the first person in my family to go to college. I had no family mentors. | 119 |
| Ban Ki-moon | We have reached a new milestone as a human family. With seven billion of us now inhabiting our planet, it is time to ask some fundamental questions. How can we provide a dignified life for ourselves and future generations while preserving and protecting the global commons - the atmosphere, the oceans and the ecosystems that support us? | 119 |
| Daniel Kahneman | Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time. | 119 |
| Tyra Banks | I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy! | 119 |
| Willie Nelson | I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude. | 119 |
| Rodney Dangerfield | I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. | 120 |
| Snoop Dogg | When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William's marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. 'Wet' is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin'. | 120 |
| Brigitte Bardot | I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian. | 120 |
| Julia Roberts | I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table. | 120 |
| Scott Adams | The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want. | 120 |
| Steven Pinker | A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature. | 120 |
| Jeffrey Kluger | A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats. | 120 |
| Joyce Carol Oates | When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed. | 120 |
| Dolly Parton | Dollywood is a family park, and all families are welcome. We do have a policy about profanity or controversial messages on clothing or signs. It is to protect the individual wearing or carrying them, as well as to keep down fights or problems by those opposed to it at the park. | 121 |
| Richard Branson | I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are. | 121 |
| Justin Bieber | I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family. | 121 |
| Christopher Lasch | The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. | 121 |
| Kevin O'Leary | I'm starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is driving a car like a Porsche. I've driven a lot of cars - sedans, trucks and big family vehicles all year long. But there's nothing like a four-wheel-drive Porsche. | 121 |
| Lewis Black | Everybody's family has different values. | 121 |
| Olivia Newton-John | Family, nature and health all go together. | 121 |
| Steve Carell | My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well. | 121 |
| Hillary Clinton | You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion. | 122 |
| Louis C. K. | America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out. | 122 |
| Tupac Shakur | If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center. | 122 |
| Gertrude Stein | Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family. | 122 |
| Shah Rukh Khan | I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I'm like a kid. | 122 |
| William J. Clinton | You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being and that of your family and your country. | 122 |
| George Carlin | The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. | 123 |
| Ariana Grande | I can't stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people - it really cheers me up. | 123 |
| Chuck Palahniuk | My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the boxcars. One year we stole a case of butterscotch pudding that was for export to Israel. It took us years to get through. | 123 |
| Ziggy Marley | My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago. | 123 |
| Barack Obama | My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. | 124 |
| Walt Disney | We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together. | 124 |
| Kim Kardashian | I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down. | 124 |
| Les Brown | Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers. | 124 |
| Regina Brett | I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone. | 124 |
| Bruce Springsteen | I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street. | 125 |
| Tim Burton | I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was. I was much more terrified by my own family and real life, you know? | 125 |
| Beyonce Knowles | We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation. | 126 |
| Pope John Paul II | As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. | 126 |
| Tupac Shakur | With all my fans I got a family again. | 126 |
| Ban Ki-moon | One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community. | 126 |
| Josh Billings | As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them. | 126 |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person. | 126 |
| Bo Bennett | Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family. | 201 |
| Wiz Khalifa | Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place. | 201 |
| George Bernard Shaw | If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. | 202 |
| Princess Diana | What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy? | 202 |
| Vince Lombardi | 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. | 202 |
| Chanakya | As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family. | 202 |
| Margaret Mead | Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. | 202 |
| Sting | I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them. | 202 |
| Charles Stanley | The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose. | 204 |
| Isabel Allende | I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant in the U.S. I have had to leave everything behind and start anew several times, and I have lost most of my extended family. | 204 |
| James E. Faust | Among the other values children should be taught are respect for others, beginning with the child's own parents and family; respect for the symbols of faith and the patriotic beliefs of others; respect for law and order; respect for the property of others; respect for authority. | 204 |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue. | 205 |
| Alice Walker | Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom. | 205 |
| Emma Watson | I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or attention. In my family, what you had to do to receive attention was to have good conversation at the dinner table or for me to do well at school, and those were really my focuses because that was what was valued the most. | 205 |
| Ezra Taft Benson | Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters. | 205 |
| Yogi Berra | I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there. | 206 |
| Mitt Romney | America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home. | 206 |
| Shah Rukh Khan | I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life? | 206 |
| Michelle Obama | See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college. | 207 |
| James Joyce | Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. | 207 |
| Zig Ziglar | People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today. | 207 |
| J. Cole | My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream. | 208 |
| Anne Lamott | When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual. | 209 |
| Douglas Adams | 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. | 210 |
| Joel Osteen | God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family. | 210 |
| Rodney Dangerfield | I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it. | 214 |
| Lao Tzu | In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. | 215 |
| Nelson Mandela | I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself. | 215 |
| Salman Rushdie | Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family. | 215 |
| Johnny Depp | I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up. | 216 |
| Zig Ziglar | U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things. | 217 |
| John Wooden | I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful. | 218 |
| Richard Bach | Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. | 219 |
| Stephen Hawking | Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is. No other member of my family has had it. But I would be in favour of abortion if there was a high risk. | 223 |
| Terry Pratchett | The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care? | 223 |
| Khalil Gibran | Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. | 224 |
| Charlie Sheen | Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever. | 224 |
| Maya Angelou | The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society. | 226 |
| John C. Maxwell | Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness. | 301 |
| George Bernard Shaw | Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. | 316 |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton | The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. | 316 |
| Douglas Coupland | It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. | 317 |
| Gertrude Stein | It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them. | 319 |
| Angelina Jolie | First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that. | 320 |
| Eminem | The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family. | 321 |
| Donald Trump | I have used the laws of this country just like the greatest people that you read about every day in business have used the laws of this country, the chapter laws, to do a great job for my company, for myself, for my employees, for my family, et cetera. | 322 |
| Eminem | My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood. | 323 |
| Maya Angelou | When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter. | 401 |
| Heidi Klum | I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well. | 409 |
| Abraham Lincoln | It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction. | 417 |
| Benjamin Franklin | He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. | 507 |
| Oscar Wilde | Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. | 515 |
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