Family Quotes

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.

If not for my family, I would have been in big trouble.

Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.

I look at 'Breaking Bad' as a show about the American family.

I feel that sometimes, holding yourself as black, saying that is your sole identity, can sometimes stand in your way of being a member of the humanity of man, being a member of the family of the divine.

For me, what I try to heal is the major thing that I think all of us go through, where we came from. From our family of origin.

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

I think family is so important.

I want to have a family and I'd like to live in a lovely big house, with a massive driveway and gates and loads of kids.

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.

It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.

I'd like to do more family dramas.

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.

We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.

I didn't do anything differently than what my father was doing. It's a really hard family to rebel in. I could have become an accountant. Or I could have become a Republican.

My whole family is very sarcastic and constantly making jokes.

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.

I think more about the family now. That's an interesting progression for me.

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.

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

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.

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

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

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.