884 private quotes tagged family

“The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.”— Christopher Lasch

“When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.”— Christopher Lasch

“Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.”— James Brown

“Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.”— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.”— Salma Hayek

“My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.”— David Mamet

“I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.”— Michael Landon

“In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.”— David Mamet

“We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I'm trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.”— Emeril Lagasse

“When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.”— Dave Grohl

“Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.”— Julia Sweeney

“People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.”— Phillip Noyce

“One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'”— David Mamet

“I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.”— Ziggy Marley

“If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.”— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

“I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.”— Christian Bale

“I have a family.”— Philip Seymour Hoffman

“I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.”— Edie Brickell

“It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.”— King Abdullah II

“My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.”— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.”— Mike Royko

“At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.”— Salma Hayek

“Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.”— Jason Reitman

“I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.”— Anna Paquin

“If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.”— Gus Van Sant