Category: Quotes About Family

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system. -Christopher Lasch

The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out. -Brett Favre

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

Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family. -Nicole Kidman

Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went. -Jonathan Sacks

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American. -Vivien Leigh

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. -Thomas Mann

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about. -Steven Spielberg

I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life? -Loretta Young

As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me…

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly. -Bradley Cooper

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. -Henry Louis Gates

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences. -Louis Farrakhan

My father never talked about the sacrifices that the family made for me. -Novak Djokovic

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church. -Pope John Paul II

What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future. -Brad Henry

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that…

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once. -Alan Dershowitz

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things. -Jonathan Safran Foer

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family. -LeBron James

I love being around my friends and my family and spending time with my husband. I like being normal and recharging my batteries, and I feel like I have the coolest job in the world where I get to get on stage and perform and get to do a lot of really amazing things. -Carrie…