Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Lee

My father's family can be traced back to 1400. I've been told by gypsies that there is unmistakeably gypsy blood in me. Lee is a gypsy name, you know.

Chris Pine

Everybody's got family, or they don't have family, but they come from somewhere.

Uzo Aduba

My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.

Marcus Samuelsson

Weekends are sacred for me. They're the perfect time to relax and spend time with family and friends.

Magic Johnson

Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.

That's what my life has come down to - how can I have fun for me, be with my friends and my family, and how can I help other people.

Elliott Yamin

I come from a family with big hearts, so I love to put smiles on people's faces.

Emilio Estevez

We're a very close family and we're a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems.

Fergie

I know this sounds generic, but I'm so happy to be home with my husband, my family, and my dog.

Fairuza Balk

My family is basically Gypsies - for real.

Fabrice Muamba

Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.

Conor Oberst

My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure.

Ariana Grande

I don't feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I've always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don't fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

Albert Camus

Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

Albert Camus

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.

Danny Kaye

I am a wife-made man.

Daniel Day-Lewis

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

Douglas Adams

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of their times. But the Kennedy tale-the spiral compound of glory, achievement, degradation and almost mythical tragedy-exerts a fascination upon us that goes beyond their public achievements.

Clive Owen

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

Douglas Coupland

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

Douglas Coupland

All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.

Ann Richards

Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.

Anais Nin

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

Anais Nin

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

Anne Hathaway

I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.

Anita Shreve

Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions ...

Chuck Palahniuk

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

Christopher Paolini

Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.

Angelina Jolie

Family is what grounds you.

Angelina Jolie

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Amos Oz

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.