Family Quotes

Almost everyone who reaches a plateau where he or she is happy and comfortable says it's because of finding balance between work, relaxation, exercise, socialising and family - plus some alone time to do something contemplative, creative, or educational.

~ Neil Strauss

That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.

~ Erik Paulsen

If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.

~ Olafur Eliasson

I want people to take the initiative to find veterans that need help, veterans that are suffering and in need of assistance reintegrating from combat back into society, into normal family lives and jobs. We need to take a real 'boots on the ground' approach to helping veterans in need.

~ Max Martini

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

~ Valerie Solanas

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

~ Maya Angelou

I did a little bit of acting - some guest spots here and there. I got a job working as a therapist doing individual and group crisis intervention and family therapy. I did that for two years. I left to do 'Boston Legal.' So my psychology career has been interwoven into my acting career, and it's my safety net and fallback.

~ Meredith Eaton

We have a legal immigration system that's outdated, it's primarily based on whether you have family members living here. In the 21st century, it has to be more of a merit-based system, and that is why our legal immigration system is in need of modernization.

~ Marco Rubio

Against the wishes of my family, I gave up my legal career, and I volunteered for the Army. I became an infantryman. I went to Iraq and Afghanistan.

~ Tom Cotton

On November 28, 2016, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, an 18-year-old legal resident of the United States whose family was originally from Somalia, used a car to mow down a group of people at the Ohio State University.

~ Peter Bergen

Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.

~ José Saramago

When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

~ Patricia Ireland

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

~ Todd Akin

It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.

~ Martin Bashir

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.

~ Orson Pratt

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

~ Louis De Bernières

I come from a family that has a long history in the legal community of New York and New York state.

~ David Zabel

About 80 percent of the photos on Flickr are public and searchable by everyone. In one sense, it's a place where people upload snapshots from the family reunion, wedding or the birth of a baby or something like that, but it's also a place where people go to show what the world looks like to them.

~ Stewart Butterfield

My wedding was a very private affair for close family and friends, so I had decided to hold a reception in my native town.

~ Mohit Chauhan

My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.

~ Mira Nair

Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.

~ Laura Wasser

I think the only consistent thing is that I like projects that explore different social themes. 'Our Family Wedding' is a comedy, but it deals with two different cultures coming together. It's also about people letting go.

~ Forest Whitaker

I found out I was pregnant seven days after my wedding. I was on honeymoon with my family.

~ Bryce Dallas Howard

I'm really close to my family, and I really want one of my own. But the wedding, it's not necessary for me.

~ Julia Restoin Roitfeld

There's no scenario in which I wouldn't want my entire family at a wedding.

~ Jordan Rodgers

It was about 2012, 2013. I started from zero. Small fashion shows, small photoshoots. I've seen a lot. I've seen a lot of things up close. I married my sister off; I gave jahez for her wedding. I tried to keep relations going with my family. I bought a house for them in Multan. My parents are settled in Multan; my house is there.

~ Qandeel Baloch

Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.

~ Os Guinness

Everyone talks about how we're on our phones all the time, but the fact remains that when I'm away on a film set for two months, I can Skype my family. I remember the phone calls my parents had to make when my dad was away for a while when I was younger - that once-a-week expensive phone call! The time pressure on talking to your father!

~ Domhnall Gleeson

I didn't come from a wealthy family. My dad told us if we wanted spending money, we had to earn it. So I developed an early work ethic.

~ Johnny Iuzzini

I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.

~ Justin Bieber

My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative in my family.

~ Bobby Clarke

My family always helped me. I had people around me who always pushed me to be the best: my dad, my mum. My dad used to play and coach as well. But I wasn't born with shiny things.

~ Paul Pogba

You draw the best things from your parents and family. You're going to pick up some of the bad things as well - there's a temper that runs through my dad's side of the family that I'm not especially keen on picking up a giant block of.

~ Mark Ronson

I promised my dad before he passed away that I would take care of the family.

~ Luis Coronel

Had my dad not been short and fat and balding, there's no doubt his career would have been very different. But he could do lots of stuff and made a very good career out of it. He had an incredible work ethic because he lost his father when he was very young, and the family had to pull together.

~ Rory Kinnear

Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

I have a massive Samoan family. And the Samoan culture has always played a massive part of my life. I've got hundreds of family on my dad's side that live in Samoa and in New Zealand. I've just been surrounded by the culture ever since I was a kid.

~ Kj Apa

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known.

~ Bill Gates

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

~ Mitt Romney

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.

~ Katy Perry