Family Quote by David Starkey

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she…

— Joan Lingard

I came out of a family background that involved itself with people.

— Ella Baker

My most important relationships were with my father and grandmother.

— Jimmy Cliff

My mom died when I was 22. My stepfather, who I loved like a father, pretty quickly got involved with another woman. Suddenly there…

— Cheryl Strayed

Through singing, I met my second husband, Jonathan, who is a professional musician. He transformed our lives and relieved me of much of the…

— Jane Hawking

I have such a strong sense of family, and I really valued the idea of meeting someone else's family.

— Andi Dorfman

I was the seventh child in a family of eight siblings. We lost our father very young, and my mother had pretty much single-handedly…

— Shiv Nadar

My family - my mother and father had gone through such a hard time that by the time I graduated from sixth grade, they…

— Ruby Bridges

In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything…

— Jimmy Cliff

I was very attached to my family when my father died. I was 19. I was about to go live with my father right…

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

I never thought I had to forge a family, but it felt the most natural thing that ever happened to me - meeting someone…

— Jude Law