Family Quotes

I came to the United States in the early '80s and was welcomed with open arms and given the opportunity to pursue my dreams. God has been very kind to us. My family and I are fortunate enough to be successful and we feel a tremendous responsibility and obligation to give back to our great country.

~ Naveen Jain

'Shake It Up' definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family.

~ Zendaya

If you live close to an International Rescue Committee office in the United States, find out how you can assist a refugee family as they transition to American life. Invite a newly arrived family to your home for a welcoming meal. Listen to their hopes and dreams, and share your own.

~ Mandy Patinkin

There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.

~ Carrie Fisher

What I would say to young entrepreneurs is there's so many moments in your life where you have these dreams, and people are trying to protect you, and they say, perhaps, friends, family, parents sometimes, they don't agree with it, they think, 'This is just too high of a hurdle.' And I don't agree with that.

~ Howard Schultz

You really can have your dreams and at the same time have a family. But it has to be a really deliberate practice.

~ Mark Ruffalo

I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.

~ Alanis Morissette

We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class men with better dreams for their children. We just wore them out.

~ James Mcbride

I didn't come from a lot. I had a lot of love and support from my family, but as far as money and that type of thing, I didn't really have any of that. All I did was follow my dreams. If my fans take anything from me, I hope it would be that.

~ Keke Palmer

In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.

~ Monica Bellucci

It's a weird place to be in because my dreams in life have surpassed what I could have ever imagined. I just hope I can continue to write stand-up, but I would say my big dream is to build an amazing family. It's so boring and cheesy, but that's my focus.

~ Tig Notaro

I've been interested in dreams myself for a long time, and it's a big part of the Indian tradition, especially where I was brought up in Calcutta in my family, which is quite traditional.

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.

~ Miley Cyrus

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

~ John Wooden

A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.

~ Frank Abagnale

I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.

~ David Beckham

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

~ Adam Sandler

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

~ Madonna Ciccone

I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.

~ Jandy Nelson

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

~ Ralph Fiennes

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.

~ Paula Poundstone

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

~ Josh Gad

I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.

~ Jeff Bridges

I have five boys in the family, and it's constant competition, sport, humor, and practical jokes.

~ Mitt Romney

My family is pretty funny. My mother is British, so she's got a very dry sense of humor. That's where I got that from.

~ Jason Bateman

I'm still trying to figure out how to write about cancer and my family's experience with it. If I had been able to write 'The Pura Principle' back in those days, I'm positive it would have had no humor in it. Which means the story would have been false.

~ Junot Díaz

For some reason, I had a responsibility to my family and the people who lived around me. I felt that I had to convey their dignity - the way they dealt with adversity and poverty - and their good humor.

~ Frank Mccourt

I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.

~ Bob Beckel

It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor. I look forward to exploring family entertainment once again and examining the specifics of our day-to-day lives against the backdrop of an extraordinary adventure.

~ Jon Favreau

Everybody in my family had a real sick, twisted sense of humor. Most of the jokes we make in our house, we would just never even dream of making anywhere else. Just sick, horrible stuff. That wasn't anything new to college.

~ Seth Macfarlane

My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.

~ Dane Cook

Most of the people in my family were pretty funny. Everyone had a good sense of humor. I came to California right after college, wanting to be a musician.

~ Andy Kindler

My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.

~ Zach Anner

Maybe the bar is low, but most of the strips that are 50, 60, 70 years old that are on their second or third generation of artists, the humor is pretty bland. There are others by people that were raised on 'Family Guy' or 'South Park' that are edgier. Mine's not as edgy as those, but it's edgier than 'Beetle Bailey.'

~ Stephan Pastis

There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.

~ Alan Thicke

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

~ Tony Visconti

One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.

~ Zoey Deutch

My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my sense of humor.

~ Karen Duffy

I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.

~ John Wells

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

~ Bil Keane