884 private quotes tagged family

“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 Underwood

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“People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.” — Jim Valvano

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“Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.” — Gary Oldman

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“My family is my strength and my weakness.” — Aishwarya Rai

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“Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.” — Charlie Sheen

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“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'” — Harmon Killebrew

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“My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.” — Katy Perry

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“I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.” — Justin Bieber

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“We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them.” — Shaun White

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“My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.” — Tony Blair

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“My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, 'meh, let's talk about something else.'” — Mindy Kaling

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“The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.” — Adam Sandler

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“You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.” — Martin Lawrence

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“I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.” — Katy Perry

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“Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.” — Tom Allen

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“I want a baby and I want a family, for sure.” — Rashida Jones

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“Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.” — Heidi Klum

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“Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.” — Clive Owen

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“I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quite believe it as it's a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever.” — Katherine Jenkins

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“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.” — Virginia Satir

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“Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.” — Emma Thompson

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“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.” — George Santayana

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“All in the Family was intellectual it was art.” — Carroll O'Connor

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“I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

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“I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.” — Roberto Cavalli

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