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Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.
— Andrew Motion
My family's story isn't special. What's special is the America that makes our story possible. Ours is a nation like no other, a place where great journeys can be made in a single generation. No matter who you are or where you come from, the path is always forward.
— Julian Castro
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.
— Jeanne Moreau
I sailboat raced, I love to go out on my motorcycle alone, but I also love my family dearly. I love that aspect of my life as well.
— Bob Seger
I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines.
— RJ Mitte
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.
— Robert Frost
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
— John Ruskin
When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?
— Robin Williams
I need a life outside of soccer. So I very much welcome, you know, new love interests and dating and friends and family.
— Hope Solo
In Puerto Rico, we have a lot of traditions. We eat a very typical thing that's called 'pasteles' - it's almost like a tamale made of bananas, and we make it all together. Like, all the women of the family unite, and it's a very big deal, a very big thing.
— Joyce Giraud
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.
— Reba McEntire
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.
— Jim Carrey
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.
— Chaim Potok
The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
— Ring Lardner
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.
— Paris Hilton
Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.
— Christopher Love
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.
— Jasmine Guy
All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.
— Brigitte Nielsen
There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.
— Meryl Streep
Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.
— Evelyn Glennie
I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.
— Anne Hathaway
The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.
— Bill Cosby
If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.
— Shirley MacLaine
I like simple things. I like being in my family in the South and playing petanque.
— Jean Dujardin
I grew up with a family that had very little and were at times homeless.
— Misha Collins
If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.
— Lacey Schwimmer
Hawaii is a beautiful place to bring up a family.
— Henry Ian Cusick
'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them!
— Taylor Swift
Everything has changed in recent decades - the economy, technology, cultural attitudes, the demographics of the workforce, the role of women in society and the structure of the American family. It's about time our laws caught up. We watch 'Modern Family' on television, but we're still living by 'Leave It To Beaver' rules.
— Thomas Perez
My family barbecued a lot good barbecue is more complicated than you think.
— Manish Dayal
I don't know what story y'all trying to get out of me. I don't know what image y'all trying to portray of me. But it don't matter what y'all think, what y'all say about me because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face - my family that I love, that's all that really matter to me.
— Marshawn Lynch
When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.
— Patricia Polacco
All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.
— Xavier Dolan
For me, there is no greater sunshine in politics or in life than to have a job, security for your family, a good school place where you know your child is going, and the sense that if I put in, there will be a decent, secure retirement at the end of it all.
— David Cameron
What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
— Nancy Carell
I quite enjoy cooking. I love cooking for my friends. It's communal, it reminds me of being with family, and it's also a form of therapy; it heals you from the inside out.
— Tamron Hall
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?
— Lee Iacocca
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.
— Margaret Mead
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
— V. S. Pritchett
What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.
— Brad Henry
The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.
— Kim Jong Il
The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization.
— Barry Sanders
In this room we're all here together, but there's probably a lot of different views, people sitting here thinking, I don't own any slaves, all the slaves are dead. Why am I responsible? My family were immigrants, too.
— Johnnie Cochran
Inspiring passion in family and friends has more enduring value than just staying alive for them.
— Alex Lowe
Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.
— William Julius Wilson
Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.
— Clifford Stoll
A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.
— Vincent Frank
Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.
— Louise Slaughter
I think those who invest in mutual funds want someone else to do the thinking for them. But the fact that they can move the money around the family of mutual funds just through a phone call lets them feel that they can play tycoons.
— Ron Chernow
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.
— Margaret Cavendish
When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.
— George Soros
If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family. And that makes you at home in that world and not fearful. So really it's very self-serving.
— Susan Sarandon
It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
— Barbara Bush
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
— Alex Haley
Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?
— Elizabeth Janeway
Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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.
— Sophia Bush
And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher, go sign up.
— Mitch Daniels
I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundamental unit of government.
— Michele Bachmann
If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.
— Emily Blunt
Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.
— James Blunt
I want to make sure my family's straight.
— Lil Wayne
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.
— Scott Ritter
My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me.
— Michael Imperioli
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.
— Mary Decker
I'm thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support.
— Serena Williams
As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of America depends in part on the success of the Latino community, and this opportunity is just one more signifier of that.
— Julian Castro
How do you rebel in a family of rebels?
— Nicolas Cage
Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.
— Olivia Williams
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.
— Zakk Wylde
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.
— Bill Murray
My ideal travel companions are my family.
— Pharrell Williams
As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
— Jack Antonoff
Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.
— Ray Dalio
Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.
— Edie Falco
I'll paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad.
— Behati Prinsloo
I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.
— Brooke Burke
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.
— Khloe Kardashian
Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not.
— Shailene Woodley
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
— Cary Grant
I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.
— Amos Oz
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.
— Jung Chang
My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.
— Joel Osteen
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.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
— James Joyce
Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
My family is more important than my party.
— Zell Miller
I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.
— Jamie Lee Curtis
My family was my guide to my reality.
— Haywood Nelson
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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.
— Ashton Shepherd
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.
— Mahendra Singh Dhoni
I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.
— Zig Ziglar
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
— Willa Cather
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.
— Barry Goldwater
A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.
— Cleveland Amory
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.
— Antonin Scalia
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.
— Igor Stravinsky
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.
— John Irving
I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.
— Sarah Jessica Parker
The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.
— Comte de Lautreamont
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.
— Patrick Henry
Had I not made it big, my family would have told me to recheck my decision. Now that I am successful, there is no way. They have to accept it gracefully.
— Amisha Patel
It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.
— Alan Keyes
I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.
— Jane Smiley
Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.
— Stephen Carter
My whole family is lactose intolerant and when we take pictures we can't say cheese.
— Jay London
Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.
— John Zimmerman
I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family.
— Tony Perez
Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family.
— Sister Parish
Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.
— Wes Borland
I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.
— Louis Farrakhan
Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
— Patricia Velasquez
No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.
— Mitch Kapor
Michael is not only my friend, he's my family.
— Emmanuel Lewis
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.
— Jose Carreras
I come from a football family which has really helped.
— Frank Lampard
But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.
— George Cadbury
If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you're not really needed by your family, but you're there. And my kids like to know I'm there.
— Bob Seger
Life is about family and technology.
— Mark Goddard
As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.
— Pierre Salinger
I was actually very pleased that they let me do it, because I feel very deeply for breast cancer survivors. I don't have it, but it is in my family. I've always been very aware of it. I go for mammograms and checkups.
— Erika Slezak
You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.
— Ethel Waters
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.
— Charles Perrault
Dr. Evil got shortchanged in the first one. The family dynamic between Scott and Dr. Evil - the adventures of being an evil single parent - needed to be explored.
— Mike Myers
My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.
— David Ogden Stiers
The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.
— Charles Eastman
It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.
— Paul Prudhomme
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.
— Shaquille O'Neal
We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now.
— Linda McCartney
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
— Christopher Lasch
Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility.
— Susan Sarandon
This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
— Patrick Henry
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
— Gertrude Stein
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'
— Gertrude Stein
Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own it needs continual input from everyone.
— Neil Kurshan
I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.
— Eugene Levy
We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane.
— Greg Anderson
Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.
— Augustus Y. Napier
The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.
— Miley Cyrus
Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
— Vanessa Hudgens
I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.
— Yo-Yo Ma
Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!
— Jerry Brown
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.
— Nicole Kidman
When you look at the world, everyone in the world who cares about his or her family wants to have a major portion of their assets in the United States because we are the growth country and the freedom loving country.
— Arthur Laffer
The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.
— Ice Cube
You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.
— Parvesh Cheena
I'm having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I'll have a family, because I don't want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it's not defining who I am.
— Krysten Ritter
I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.
— Newt Gingrich
You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're always right.' No, they tell me when I'm wrong, and that's why I've been able to stay who I am and stay humble.
— LeBron James
I do want to have holidays and see my family and friends.
— Jason Clarke
I come from a poor family.
— Manny Pacquiao
And that's where I'm finally at today - my life is about being with my family. This is what's important.
— Aron Ralston
Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.
— Novak Djokovic
I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.
— Robin Gibb
I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.
— Lance Bass
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.
— Joan Cusack
I think family mealtime is really important. There's a lot of research that shows kids are going to do better in school and have more self-esteem if you can all sit down and eat together.
— Jewel
I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I'm like a kid.
— Shah Rukh Khan
I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
— Nadia Giosia
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.
— Bobby Brown
I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
— Ted Cruz
Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!
— Oscar Pistorius
In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.
— Mitt Romney
When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.
— George Saunders
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.
— Ted Strickland
I've been so blessed to be part of a family that has dedicated its life to public service.
— Jeb Bush
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.
— Ted Nugent
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.
— Charles Stanley
I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.
— Caroline Wozniacki
Studying doesn't have to happen in a silo. It can be a social experience. You can engage with your friends and family to find out the answer to a tough question or have someone explain it to you. You can also study anywhere you happen to be and on any device.
— Eric Lefkofsky
I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.
— Ozzy Osbourne
My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming.
— Anna Kendrick
It's really all about family, love and the children for me. I work at that every day.
— Celine Dion
My family and friends treat me as they always have.
— Daniel Craig
Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.
— Hope Davis
I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. I'll never be able to repay Mum and Dad for what they did, but at least they know they'll never have to work another day. I'll do whatever it takes to look after them.
— Rory McIlroy
I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.
— Pranab Mukherjee
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.
— Julie Andrews
Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.'
— Bill Skarsgard
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.
— Madonna Ciccone
What I really am is a homebody. I was a homebody even before I had a family. My days are filled with home stuff.
— Ray Liotta
My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.
— Harvey Fierstein
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.
— Jane Fonda
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.
— Stephenie Meyer
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.
— Sophia Bush
But I want to start a family one day, and be involved in more charities, helping children.
— Lily Aldridge
For me, family always comes first; I would do anything to protect them.
— Mark Wahlberg
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.
— Carrie Underwood
I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.
— Ernie Harwell
The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media.
— Tony Campolo
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.
— Harlan Coben
I think of my shows as family reunions. I give 100% every time. I just do. It's a huge therapeutic release. Also I love my touring family. And I love my audiences very much.
— Paula Cole
You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.
— Eddie Van Halen
My family is my life, and I'll never lose that.
— Jessica Simpson
We didn't have much money. My whole extended family used to help us, and buy us books and food. It was hard, and there were things I didn't want to talk about. But at the end I was a happy girl.
— Maria das Gracas Silva Foster
Being on 'Glee' was amazing. I remember my first day on set, my first day I arrived to the set I was in my trailer and all of the actors came and banged on my door - Lea Michele, Chris Colfer, Amber Riley, Naya Rivera. They all welcomed me with open arms, so it was a great experience. It felt like family, and I miss them a lot over there.
— NeNe Leakes
I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.
— Betty White
I think family is so important.
— Jacqueline Emerson
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.
— Chris Kyle
I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.
— Annie Ilonzeh
Victoria's Secret is like a big family.
— Candice Swanepoel
But for me, I thought you made a record, you got on a bus, went out and played your shows and made a lot of money. That was the way it was supposed to go down. But there's a lot more to it than that. There are a lot of early mornings, late nights, a lot of traveling, a lot of being away from home, being away from your family.
— Jason Aldean
When I was going on auditions, it was nerve-racking. I'd always say to my mom that it would be awesome if I could get a series. When Modern Family came along, I said, 'You know what, Mom? I believe I'm going to get this role.'
— Rico Rodriguez
I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everything from heavy Catholicism to followers of Indian spiritual masters to Unitarian universalists - all in one family. Though the family aspect was stronger than any particular dogma.
— St. Vincent
I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left the strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles.
— Julia Leigh
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.
— Kevin Hart
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.
— Kid Cudi
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.
— Michael Ealy
I have mostly been terrified of listening to scary stories around a campfire. We camp a lot as a family, and at night my dad would try and tell us scary stories. This made eating s'mores difficult. The story would start with something like... 'and the old man who lived in these woods...' I would then run back into the camper terrified.
— Willow Shields
I'm not a royal family watcher.
— Bill Nighy
I grew up in a family of secrets there was a lot of pathology in the family.
— Naomi Judd
America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.
— Mitt Romney
I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.
— Dolly Parton
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
— Douglas Coupland
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.
— Angelina Jolie
Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!
— Alanis Morissette
The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.
— Suze Orman
You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.
— Sandra Bullock
Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.
— Christina Milian
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.
— George Clooney
If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
— Kanye West
We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
— Dan Quayle
We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.
— Darius Rucker
First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.
— Frank McCourt
There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.
— Michael Douglas
I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not.
— Tyler Perry
I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.
— Heidi Klum
A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.
— Jason Mraz
You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.
— Henry Louis Gates
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.
— Janet Jackson
At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
— Sam Brownback
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
— Elizabeth Edwards
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.
— Amy Tan
My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.
— Jim Carrey
Tennis just a game, family is forever.
— Serena Williams
I have a great family, I live an amazing life.
— John Oates
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
— Josh Billings
Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
— Francesca Annis
Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
— Gary Oldman
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
— Richard Bach
In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
— Adele
My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.
— Emeril Lagasse
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.
— David Ogilvy
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.
— Wentworth Miller
It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to.
— Woody Harrelson
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!
— Shirley Manson
At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.
— Gwen Stefani
My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.
— Gwen Stefani
Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far.
— Gwen Stefani
Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.
— Charlie Sheen
I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.
— Bonnie Raitt
It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.
— Dave Eggers
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.
— David Walton
A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.
— Mel Gibson
Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them.
— Rick Santorum
I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
— Cameron Diaz
My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.
— David Sedaris
With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size, and it wasn't two burgers, it was one.
— Ginnifer Goodwin
My kids give me the balance to live right.
— Celine Dion
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.
— Sting
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.
— 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.
— Christopher Lasch
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
— Christopher Lasch
Nobody in my family ever thought that I'd a be a model.
— Cindy Crawford
I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.
— Patty Duke
For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
— Jessica Lange
I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.
— Jessica Lange
It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have a mum and dad who love and accept me for who I am. But if they never do, it's OK.
— Heather Graham
The family is inclusive of not just your genetic family, but the people that you meet along the way.
— Jane Seymour
The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
— Faith Hill
Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.
— Germaine Greer
I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children.
— Gunter Grass
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
— Fred Allen
I've been pretty focused my entire life, and now that I have a family, I'm just going to keep that focus, but it's going to be a family focus.
— Wiz Khalifa
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.
— Ai Weiwei
God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.
— Jerry Falwell
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.
— Emo Philips
When I'm on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I've had a bad qualifying session. I think insecurity plagues a lot of sportspeople.
— Jenson Button
My health and my family are the core of my being.
— Jon Bon Jovi