Famous Quotes & Sayings

Desmond Tutu

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

Desmond Tutu

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Delia Ephron

if you are a stepparent, rush right out and get yourself a dog. Because it's very nice to have someone in the house that loves you.

Anna Quindlen

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Anna Quindlen

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.

Cindy Crawford

Nobody in my family ever thought that I'd a be a model.

Amy Schumer

He was really into family... He'd never come on the road with me on the weekends 'cause he wanted to spend time with his wife.

Amy Tan

My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.

Anthony Anderson

I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

Clint Eastwood

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

Barack Obama

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

NeNe Leakes

Most of the time my own family feels like I don't need anything, I'm tough as nails and I don't have any feelings about anything. They really think that I'm this super tough person. I have a tough exterior, but I get upset. I have feelings and all those things. I wear my heart on my sleeve.

Ellie Goulding

'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.

Chang-Rae Lee

We grow up with this idea that we're all individual agents. We work, make our money, have our place to live and our satellite TV. But whether you like it or not, you need family or community.

Charles Hazlewood

I spend so much of my time working away, but I love being here. My family is in Somerset, and this is where my heart is.

Ernie Els

There's so much more to life than golf. Family is always first.

Estelle

I come from a family of well-endowed booty women.

Esai Morales

Being an American is a state of mind, and to be in a family is to feel the power of belonging, the power of your roots. Family is a tree, the strength of a tree, the roots, the leaves, the past and the present, the future, the fruits, the seeds.

I hope that my family will continue in another thousand years.

Frida Gustavsson

I'm honored and thrilled to represent such an iconic brand and to be a part of the Maybelline New York family.

Christine Ebersole

Family transcends the flesh. You don't love someone because they look like you, you love their spirit; it's the soul connection.

Christian Serratos

I make a fabulous tofurkey for Thanksgiving. My Mexican-Italian family can't tell the difference.

Lil' Kim

'Dancing With The Stars' is a little family. The cast, we're all together - we're a really friendly competition.

Luka Sulic

I started playing when I was 5. I'm from a family of musicians.

Christina Rossetti

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

Lindsay Price

Work used to be the No. 1 important thing to me. Everything revolved around it, and to have a new perspective and have something else, my family, not just being a mom but being a part of an incredible family of my own, it makes me have a different perspective on life that I think is richer.

Kirk Cameron

To me, God comes first, my family come second. If I fail at those two, I'm just playing games.

Katherine Webb

The majority of my family is Auburn fans, and I grew up watching Auburn football, and that's always who I've cheered for.

I do feel guilty. I do. Especially about my family, my children. I write about them, and I know that this will haunt them as well through their lives. Why did I do that to them?

Johnnie Cochran

In this room we're all here together, but there's probably a lot of different views, people sitting here thinking, I don't own any slaves, all the slaves are dead. Why am I responsible? My family were immigrants, too.

Jonathan Haidt

Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children.

Lance Morrow

He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.

Laura Osnes

As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.