884 private quotes tagged family

“But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.”— Andrea Martin

“I've always known I wanted a family.”— Charlize Theron

“The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible.”— Christopher Monckton

“My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.”— Michael Symon

“I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them.”— Ice Cube

“My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.”— Mario Batali

“I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'”— Cher

“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

“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.”— Andre Maurois

“The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.”— Ashley Montagu

“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

“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

“Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.”— Sophia Bush

“I'm overjoyed and beyond honored to be a part of the L'Oreal Paris family. I'm such a fan of L'Oreal Paris not just for all of their amazing products, but for what they stand for.”— Lea Michele

“Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.”— Gary Oldman

“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

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

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

“Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!”— O. Henry

“Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family.”— Bo Bennett

“Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.”— Jessica Savitch

“So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.”— Haniel Long

“I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first.”— Julianne Hough

“I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.”— Richard M. Daley

“One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.”— Ben Kingsley