Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marianne Williamson

Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.

Leo Buscaglia

I was lucky to have such a loving, crazy family. I learned to give and share.

Leo Buscaglia

All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love.

Kurt Vonnegut

I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.

Adriana Lima

In Brazil, we don't have Victoria's Secret, and my family are all Victoria's Secret fans, so I usually bring them back some lovely pieces.

Kelli O'Hara

When I was a kid, I would sing in people's living rooms and for different little family things.

Arnold Palmer

When I was a kid, it was my family and God and the USGA. That was kind of the way I was raised.

When a soldier is wounded, the family is wounded as well.

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

Vint Cerf

One of my favorite books is 'The Swiss Family Robinson.' The reason is, I'm fascinated by the postapocalyptic recovery. What do we do in a disaster? How do we make do?

Vonda Shepard

The two together are a really great combo: the family life and then being able to go play some shows and write.

Valerie Simpson

Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I wanted a family, but before I had a family, I was a career person. I've tried to marry those two things, and sometimes it is successful, and sometimes it is not.

Steve Kroft

My father was a very good golfer and he got me started early. My grandfather played, too. It was just something that the Kroft family did. I kind of grew up on the golf course.

A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by a mother who sees that the others get it.

Nicole Holofcener

When I was going away to school, I had a friend who took a liking to my family just a little too much. We couldn't get her out of the house. It took me saying to my parents, 'I don't want her here. I'm feeling replaced.'

Having travelled and lived and worked in many different places, I was keen to come back and settle in Nottingham, partly because my family are here, but also because Nottingham is such a vibrant city.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

I grew up in a family that played golf, and my brother was much better than me, so I kind of put that aside. I had to be good at something other than golf.

Lech Walesa

I don't have regrets I didn't spend more time with my family because I've lived my life to the full, and you can't look back in regret.

Leila Aboulela

My father married out of the family. I also married outside the family.

Liu Wen

No one else in my family works in the fashion industry.

Loudon Wainwright III

Family life is tough, I'll say that for it. But in my case, I've mined the family. In a sense, I've used it. I've used what happened - the different events, the births of children, birthdays. Connecting, not connecting. Regret, shame, guilt. I mean, they're all in the songs. And love, too, I hasten to add.

Susanne Bier

In a way, our family is our modern identity.

Susanne Bier

Denmark is like a big family of people.

Vicki Lawrence

Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and says 'Mama' is just like them, so no one is ever offended by her. Even young people like to laugh at her. I think she helps kids appreciate their own grandmothers more.

Vik Muniz

Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.

Brandon Flowers

For the most part, the first thing people I meet that aren't Mormon say is, 'I grew up with a Mormon family. They're the nicest people I know.' So when I see these statistics that it's the most hated religion, I don't know where they're getting that from.

Bonnie Tyler

I love my nice things, but I'm still the Welsh family girl.

Sean Casey

Trace is just trying to set a tone. We're a family and we have to get it done on the field.

Mike Gonzalez

To work with your family is unique and a special thing, ... In essence, Joe is my boss, fortunately or unfortunately . . . however you want to look at that.

You don't really realize the impact until it hits your family . . . That was going to be our grandson. We're stronger as a family after something like this . . . Until you lose someone, you don't realize the value you had until you lose them.

Claude Brown

You don't mess with a man's money; you don't mess with a man's woman; you don't mess with a man's family or his manhood these were a man's principles . . .

Today was very tough, listening to everything. My family and us are reliving it all again.