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I was the youngest child and the only son. I was expected to shine in academics. It seemed like too big a risk to take up cricket as a career. I thought I had to live up to my family's expectations. So I chose to be an engineer.
— Sushant Singh Rajput
Since I was a boy - born into a farming family in Bonaire, GA - I've had agriculture running through my veins.
— Sonny Perdue
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.
— Benjamin Franklin
A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.
— Dwight L. Moody
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
— Pope John XXIII
The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
— Talcott Parsons
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.
— Toni Morrison
Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.
— Alveda King
Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.
— LeBron James
Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.
— Wiz Khalifa
My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.
— Tim Heidecker
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.
— Joshua Foer
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.
— Sheena Iyengar
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.
— Vince Lombardi
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.
— Shawn Mendes
We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots religion, nation, community, family, or profession are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust.
— Alvin Toffler
My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.
— Conor McGregor
You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.
— Sandra Bullock
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.
— Harry Browne
Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.
— Thomas Cochrane
When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.
— Anne Lamott
I had this child, and it destroyed my family.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.
— Martin Short
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.
— Ednita Nazario
I love spending time with my dog, my niece and my family. I'm very family-oriented.
— Lil' Kim
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.
— Xi Jinping
In the family, in interpersonal relationships, even in friendship, faith is tremendously important. If you have a partner who you believe is a good person, then it is your duty to have faith in them until the end, despite the fact that they might have done some bad things. And you have to support and believe in your children.
— Greg Graffin
One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.
— Ben Kingsley
I'm lucky in that I have close friends and family and my agent to advise me.
— Imogen Poots
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.
— Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't go on vacations. I don't take my family on vacations because I don't have a family. My family is the racing family.
— Tony Stewart
My advice: Take a second out of the day today and be thankful for your family.
— Jenna Morasca
I kind of love coming home and being with family and feeling comfortable and knowing where I come from I kind of like it. 
— Michael Angarano
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.
— Brenda Song
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.
— Tyson Fury
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.
— Ronnie James Dio
Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.
— Oliver Hudson
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.
— Tim Vine
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.
— Kanye West
My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.
— Jane Goodall
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.
— Eddie Vedder
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
— Alex Haley
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
— Andre Maurois
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.
— Elizabeth Fishel
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
— George Eliot
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
— Gertrude Stein
The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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.
— Jackie Kennedy
Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
— Vartan Gregorian
What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
— Princess Diana
I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.
— Penelope Cruz
Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.
— Grace Kelly
I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
— Jet Li
I love all my fam. I have quite possibly the best dad, mom, and sister in the world.
— Ryan Eggold
With all my fans I got a family again.
— Tupac Shakur
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.
— Dean Ornish
I have the best memories as a kid eating ice cream. It was a family tradition that I had with my father. It was nice.
— Michael Strahan
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.
— Hope Solo
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.
— Trevor Noah
My grandfather was a persuasive man who made friends with people at every level of influence. In order to fight against our tribe's termination, he went to newspapers and politicians and urged them to advocate for our tribe in Washington. He also supported his family through the Depression as a truck farmer.
— Louise Erdrich
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.
— Al Sharpton
Baby eagles can never soar under their family's wing.
— Liu Yang
Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
— Zac Posen
I have a really good family. I'm lucky to have people who support me and love me in my life.
— Kenny Wormald
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.
— Luke Bryan
Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.
— Sister Souljah
I admire people's marriages, and I think it's a wonderful thing to have, but I don't think it's the only way to live. I think there are many ways to live and many ways to establish intimate support in your life that can be from family or friends or great roommates that you like.
— Linda Ronstadt
I didn't want to be the best at anything; I just wanted to blend in. And that was kind of my existence throughout my family experiences at home of just kind of blending in in the background through my other siblings, which was easy to do.
— Misty Copeland
I know Donald Trump. I've met him I know his family. I have love and friendship and affection for his family members. But I'm going to work very hard to ensure that he is not our president.
— Cory Booker
You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.
— Lynn Johnston
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.
— Mario Andretti
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.
— B. B. King
Holidays are the best. I couldn't imagine being from a small family.
— Kim Kardashian
Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend.
— Susannah York
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.
— Sonia Rykiel
My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.
— Denzel Washington
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
— Desmond Tutu
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.
— Chris Kyle
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.
— Kelly Slater
It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear.
— Melody Beattie
To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
— John Forbes Nash, Jr.
There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.
— Salman Rushdie
My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.
— Jeremy Lin
My mom keeps me going, man. She deserves such a good life. I just wanna give it to her. My dad, too. My family, my friends, they keep me motivated. Just knowing my personal legend, just knowing what I'm supposed to do, that keeps me going.
— Big Sean
I came from a traditional family, and it was an exciting but challenging transition to move to America and live on my own. The world around me was suddenly so different.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
November 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Patterson's at Lisle. This respectable family treated me with every mark of distinction and friendship, and likewise all the people did the same. I really want for words to express my gratitude.
— Deborah Sampson
In family relationships, 'love' is really spelled 't-i-m-e,' time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
My family is everything. They love me unconditionally.
— Sofia Carson
My greatest success story has been my family.
— Alex Spanos
My family made it through Hurricane Sandy. We have water, power, and a roof, but the survivor's guilt makes me want to hide. Sneak away from the brilliance of life. It shouts at me: 'Don't enjoy anything too much; people are suffering.' I feel childlike somehow.
— Alysia Reiner
You may not know your complete family history, but the reality is everyone has something, and as you get older, you start to worry about these things more. Health is not sort of like a 6-month project. Health is a lifetime accumulation of behaviors.
— Anne Wojcicki
You can always tell a person's real character and personhood by those who closely surround him, especially if they're family.
— Chuck Norris
In modern life, we tend to forget family values because of the hectic schedule.
— Mahesh Babu
Founding a company is a sheer act of will and tenacity in the face of immense skepticism from everyone - investors, customers, friends, family, and employees, to name a few.
— Steve Blank
Ritesh Deshmukh is rock star. He has a lovely family. He works so hard, and he's a great actor. He's funny, friendly, doesn't have an ego, and is so nice to everyone. He's a fine professional, a good husband, and a good father. That's a rock star for me.
— Nargis Fakhri
I think when things get hard with your family, it's really easy to want to isolate yourself. The world is so harsh, so when stuff happens outside, you want to go to your family, but when stuff happens inside your family, you sort of start to feel like, 'I'm alone. There is no place I can go to where just nothing will happen to me.'
— Dove Cameron
When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline.
— Coretta Scott King
I have no ambitions at all! I have none... seriously. I want to be a good father. I want to be a good husband. I want to be a good son, a good brother, a good family member. I don't have any ambition to direct a film or write a play. I like acting.
— Pilou Asbaek
We all act differently in certain places. We don't want to admit it, but we're different where we grew up than we are with our family and than we are with the guys that we went to college with or our fraternity brothers. People just exist differently. It's small, subtle things, but different colors come out. That's all there is to it.
— Mike Colter
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.
— Dan Quayle
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
— Queen Elizabeth II
Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.
— Donald Rumsfeld
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
— Rodney Dangerfield
You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.
— Courtney Thorne-Smith
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.
— Havelock Ellis
The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
— Barry Gibb
I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.
— Corazon Aquino
While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.
— Bob Menendez
My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.
— Mike Honda
Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
— Daniel Boone
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.
— Jim Fowler
My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.
— Ryan White
I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.
— Olivier Martinez
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
— Billy Joel
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
— Anne Tyler
I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.
— Jeff Foxworthy
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
— Chanakya
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.
— Alfred Adler
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.
— Erik Erikson
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.
— Kristen Bell
The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
— Al Sharpton
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.
— Forest Whitaker
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.
— Mark Cuban
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.
— Christopher Hitchens
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.
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me.
— Tim Duncan
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.'
— Faith Evans
I just feel like it gets harder and harder every year with Ace getting older and time away from my husband and even family events such as birthdays and friends' weddings and things that I've always just missed out on because of softball.
— Jennie Finch
When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.
— Delta Goodrem
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.
— Jodi Picoult
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.
— Johnny Depp
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.
— Eric Bana
A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.
— Chaz Bono
It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.
— Abdullah II of Jordan
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.
— Eminem
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?
— Terry Pratchett
America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out.
— Louis C. K.
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.
— Yoko Ono
In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.
— 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.
— Jet Li
I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.
— Kim Kardashian
When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.
— Jonathan Davis
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.
— Alyssa Milano
Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.
— James Belushi
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.
— Dana Carvey
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.
— Izabel Goulart
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.
— Constance Jablonski
Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.
— Aleksa Palladino
Antique things have an appreciation and worth. Something can be old, but it can be timeless; therefore, it becomes an antique. If this antique is preserved and deemed precious, it could be passed down as a family heirloom.
— CeeLo Green
Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.
— Amy Sherman-Palladino
Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice.
— Martin Amis
One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'
— David Mamet
That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.
— Erin Gruwell
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.
— Karisma Kapoor
I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.
— Natalie Martinez
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
— Barbra Streisand
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
— Queen Elizabeth II
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.
— Brad Pitt
The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.
— Jeff Cooper
No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.
— Hilda Solis
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.
— Rosie O'Donnell
No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
— J. Edgar Hoover
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
— Anita Diament
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.
— Bobby Jindal
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.
— Ariana Grande
We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be.
— Regina Brett
America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.
— Barack Obama
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.
— Meek Mill
I am thankful for all the blessings and talents I have been given, but most of all I am thankful for my loving and supportive family.
— Olivia Holt
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.
— Amy Grant
Next to hurting my family, cheating on me is the worst thing someone could do.
— Robert Buckley
Boys used to call me Soda in school days. Soda means 'serving officers daughters association.' I miss those days when I had a very protected life: one could get close and bond with other army people that they gradually would become your extended family.
— Anushka Sharma
Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese.
— Pele
I've discovered that Motown and Broadway have a lot in common - a family of wonderfully talented, passionate, hardworking young people, fiercely competitive but also full of love and appreciation for the work, for each other and for the people in the audience.
— Berry Gordy
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.'
— Harmon Killebrew
The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
— Jasmine Guy
I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.
— Ronaldinho
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
— Erma Bombeck
I spend most of my time at the ranch with my family, and enjoy life - watch the sun come up, watch it go down, thank God for another day, and just be happy.
— Marcus Luttrell
We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breakup, an insidious culture of violence that cheapens human life, skyrocketing prisoner recidivism rates that rob our communities of husbands and fathers - and recognize that there is a societal role in rehabilitation and restoration.
— Frank Wolf
When my mom, Mercedes, and her younger sister, Juanita, first came from Puerto Rico, they were the youngest in the family. They had to jump into a new community and really learn English, assimilate, and adapt - and I saw that. I grew up in that community.
— Kimberly Guilfoyle
Michelle and I don't want anyone telling us who our family's doctor should be - and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.
— Barack Obama
My wife once said that one of her great ambitions was to walk down the streets of Hong Kong with her children. So we all went to Asia on one occasion. Then she said she'd like to walk down the streets of Jerusalem with her children. So we arranged our family finances and all went to Jerusalem.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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.
— Gloria Steinem
What is it to enjoy life? Sit at the beach? No. What it is is that you have to do something, you have be productive, make a contribution to the society, to the family, to yourself.
— Frank Lowy
I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family. Fourteen years have given me a lot and I can't thank God and the industry enough.
— Akshay Kumar
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.
— Mario Testino
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.
— Edwin Land
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.
— Ashley Olsen
We have overcome economic devastation, defeated mighty oppressors, and lifted up generation after generation of Americans. We can - and we will - do it again. For that is our birthright as members of the American family - white, black, Hispanic, Asian, immigrant, or descendant of the Founding Fathers themselves.
— Brian Sandoval
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.
— Jeffrey Kluger
If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.
— Julia Louis-Dreyfus
I lead a simple life. I get residuals. I have a family we're doing alright.
— Robert Morse
Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.
— Dennis Prager
One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.
— Gabe Newell
I've gotten to learn what's important in life and what's not important, and what to spend energy on and what not to. I don't have a family like some of my teammates, but I have a lot of things pulling at me that I have to put my energy into.
— Aaron Rodgers
All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.
— Andrea Corr
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.
— Ellen Barkin
I'm happiest with my family around me.
— Amy Winehouse
I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.
— Steven Adler
But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.
— Brett Favre
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.
— Mark Strong
Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.
— Jennifer Granholm
When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.
— Iain Duncan Smith
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.
— Beyonce Knowles
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.
— Taslima Nasrin
We've got some talented people in my family in regards to football, and we do it the right way.
— Clay Matthews III
I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.
— Ted Cruz
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.
— Robert Byrd
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.
— Marie Curie
The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society.
— Prince Andrew
The hardworking men and women of this country identify with my father. He is tough, and he is persevering. He is honest, and he is real. He's an optimist, and he's a relentless believer in America and all of her potential. He loves his family, and he loves his country with his heart and his soul.
— Ivanka Trump
Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.
— Marian Wright Edelman
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.
— Scott Adams
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.
— Deepika Padukone
Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.
— Jeffrey Kluger
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.
— George Foreman
We have a huge family history with Singapore because we have the duty-free shops in the airports. It's a very industrious city. It's beautiful, and Singaporeans have this wonderful desire for, and love of, luxury goods. You can see how well thought out and planned the city is with the best boutiques.
— Marie-Chantal Claire
I was raised in a dominantly Filipino family. I didn't know I was 'mixed' until I got older and started asking questions about my grandparents, the origins of our middle and last names. We were kind of textbook Pinoys. A lot of the Filipino stereotypes that were joked about by me and my friends rang very true with my family.
— Vincent Rodriguez III
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.
— Jeff Foxworthy
No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
— Peace Pilgrim
There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.
— David Bowie
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.
— Harry Styles
Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services. Lives are lost, and girls' opportunities to thrive and contribute to their country's development shrink. These are real people.
— Jenny Shipley
The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life.
— Evangeline Lilly
A family spirit is not always synonymous with family life. Bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh makes for brothers, sisters and relatives, who may be as distant as strangers in a foreign land.
— Mother Angelica
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.
— Haniel Long
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.
— Martha Plimpton
I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.
— Julie Andrews
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.
— Prince Andrew
Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family - Jewish or Islamic or Christian or Mexican - and your family determines to some extent what you are expected to become. And society is always there attempting to determine the role we will play within it.
— Laura Esquivel
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
— George Bernard Shaw
We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.
— Nancy Keenan
Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.
— Bob Keeshan
My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.
— Dolores Huerta
What is discipleship? It is primarily obedience to the Savior. Discipleship includes many things. It is chastity. It is tithing. It is family home evening. It is keeping all the commandments. It is forsaking anything that is not good for us.
— James E. Faust
Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor. So, in many ways, my father was a sailor before I was born.
— Tobias Lindholm
I've always been a family man and count myself as one of those who are lucky to have the comfort of a family.
— James Nesbitt
I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.
— LeBron James
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.
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
— Adam Weishaupt
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.
— Brigitte Bardot
The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
— George Orwell
My family and school life are important to me.
— Anna Chlumsky