Family Quotes · Page 185

If you want to have world peace, go to your house and love your family.

— Mother Teresa

I grew up in L.A., but I was the only one in my family born there.

— Blake Lively

I don't come from a unit family; I come from a Sang Parivar, Swayam Sevak family.

— Smriti Irani

We just figured adoption was a great way for us to grow our family.

— Jordy Nelson

“Shift from modern nuclear family to the postmodern permeable family.”

— David Elkind

I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.

— Randy Quaid

I don't look for anybody to pay for health care for me and my family. That's my responsibility.

— Ted Yoho

I come from a family of readers. Our house smelled of book.

— Megan Abbott

What keeps me awake at night? Just about everything! I worry that I am not there for my family enough. So what…

— Julia Sawalha

When working at Women's Aid, I met countless women whose families had not believed them when they spoke of their abuse at…

— Jess Phillips

“In the churches I used to go to, I felt like I didn't fit in... I was accepted but not understood. There…

— Donald Miller

I liked work shoes and big, working-class hands. The stars would come and go, but the crew on my movies was my…

— Shirley Temple

“You and the Knights, you're my family, blood or not, and I deserve the right to hear the good, the bad, and…

— Julie Ann Walker

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…

— Sting

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

— Anonymous

We live life in restaurants, its the center of social life, where we celebrate with family and friends, make new friends, travel…

— Philip Rosenthal

When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer…

— Jaclyn Smith

On the weekends, it's much more relaxed. I enjoy cooking, so on Saturdays I make a big breakfast of eggs or pancakes,…

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

Many a family, in order to make a 'proper showing,' will commit itself for a larger and more expensive house than is…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“He who fights on a foreign soil another man's war Not for his family or his country's honor And, when he lies…

— Anonymous

“Granted, your hard-working hubby is doing his fair share just by bringing home the bacon. But by encouraging him to take on…

— Josie Brown

“If the independent, isolated nuclear family unit is, in fact, the structure into which human beings most naturally configure themselves, why do…

— Christopher Ryan

In the past members of my family on both my mother's and father's side have fought in the war, in the first…

— PJ Harvey

“Job’s wife went with her husband from a comfortable and well-supplied lifestyle to being homeless, bankrupt, and childless. She became a caregiver,…

— Paddick Van Zyl

I actually, truly do love my family. It's not a public relations exercise.

— Chris Rea

I know how fortunate I am and my family are to be healthy.

— Cole Swindell

Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.

— Oliver Hudson

How was I conceived? Was it love, was I meant, or was I just an accident?

— Ray Davies

People are supposed to be loyal to the country above [Donald's Trump] family.

— Steve Inskeep

I advocate family planning, but I have never stood for forcible sterilisation.

— Sanjay Gandhi

All of us from 'The Waltons' still love each other. I think we're closer than some real families.

— Michael Learned

I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers.

— Marlee Matlin

This is the hardest part of military family life - being away from each other.

— Brianna Keilar

The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.

— Timothy J. Russert

I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.

— Naomi Judd

I have English family in Northhampton and have been to England numerous times.

— Steve Kanaly

Give a boy a dog and you've furnished him a playmate.

— Berton Braley

I may not always be offered work, but I'll always have my family.

— Audrey Hepburn

What I like to do is get the family in the pick-up truck... and then we just go for a drive. That's…

— Dwayne Johnson

A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.

— Louis C. K