884 private quotes tagged family

“The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.” — Ron Reagan

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“My whole d--n family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.” — Henry Fonda

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“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” — Earl Nightingale

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“When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.” — John Cheever

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“If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.” — David McCallum

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“Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.” — Chevy Chase

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“Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.” — Agnes Smedley

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“Our family life was certainly not intellectual.” — Douglass North

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“We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.” — Julia Barr

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“God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.” — Frank Knox

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“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.” — Pope John Paul II

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“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'” — Stephen King

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“Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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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 come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.” — Erma Bombeck

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“When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.” — Jane Goodall

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“Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.” — Vince Lombardi

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“I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.” — Jackie Chan

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“It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.” — Philip Green

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“The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.” — Pope John Paul II

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“Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.” — Joe Manchin

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“Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.” — Barbara Bush

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“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.” — John Ruskin

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“The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.” — Eminem

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“All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.” — Chaim Potok

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