Family: Family Quotes

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"I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer"

Aaron Spelling, Producer

"I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys"

Caroline B. Cooney, Writer

"I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening"

Bob Balaban, Actor

"They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldn't be"

Charlotte Church, Musician

"To Adam, paradise was home. To the good among his descendants, home is paradise"

Augustus Hare, Writer

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

Dane Cook, Comedian

"I was born on Wellington Avenue, and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area"

Bob Balaban, Actor

"My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age"

Brian Austin Green, Actor

"I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world"

Amos Oz, Writer

"My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy!"

Blake Lively, Actress

"I came from a big family - two brothers and two sisters. So, there were always a ton of boys around and a ton of girls around. So, I grew up comfortable with both sexes"

Blake Lively, Actress

"My parents cultured me a lot, and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends"

Amber Tamblyn, Actress

"I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years, and then one of them became the head of Paramount, and the other was the head of production at MGM, and we all came out of Chicago"

Bob Balaban, Actor

"Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends"

Amber Tamblyn, Actress

"I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards"

Amy Adams, Actress

"I am glad to go with my wife and baby boy"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer"

Beau Bridges, Actor

"Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul"

Robert Grosseteste, Statesman

"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, Athlete

"And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids, all those things, I thought at one time... You got to be kidding me... Those things are so important, they enable you to go on"

Brett Favre, Athlete

"I look forward to a lot more free time, at least initially, with my wife, Lisa, and our three children"

Steve Yzerman, Athlete

"I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be"

Sidney Poitier, Actor

"As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents"

Sidney Poitier, Actor

"I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved"

Gary Oldman, Actor

"My family had liberal positions"

Emma Bonino, Politician

"We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889"

Calamity Jane, Soldier

"My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family"

Emma Bonino, Politician

"I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are"

Brett Favre, Athlete

"Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra"

Jean Alesi, Celebrity

"This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly"

Willie Aames, Actor

"I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate"

Lucan, Poet

"The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love"

Erich von Stroheim, Actor

"I would never put my job before my family"

Savannah Guthrie, Journalist

"Family is the place where you learn who you are and who you want to be"

Jenna Bush Hager, Journalist

"A stable, supportive family is the single most powerful factor in a child's success"

J. D. Vance, Politician

"My family didn't find out until I told them, which was when I won Penthouse Pet of the Year. They took it as well as I could have hoped. I am their daughter and they love me, so it was great when they didn't disown me"

Sunny Leone, Actress

"I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina"

Chris Hughes, Entrepreneur

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

Valerie Solanas, Writer

"Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table"

Bob Ehrlich, Politician

"My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans"

Susan Lucci, Actress

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