- Great Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Family Quotes
On heritage, closeness and the pull of family.
These quotes touch on family in different forms: a sports club described as having a family feel, and personal reflections on growing up within a close, sometimes insular, family circle. For devotional lines on family, see our Prayers.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don't know what I'd do without them.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Vancouver. I can be with my family, I can reconnect with the guys. It will always be my home.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to be a star, and I don't really want to be famous. I just love the stability of my life. I'm a complete family guy.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Millions of Indonesians who live with secrets in their family who have a sense of that kind of secret that their parents never told them, want to be told about what happened so they can know where they come from.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up really religious, and my family still is, but I'm not so much. That scene in 'Cool Hand Luke', it just destroyed me.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been able to shake the idea of family, which is to say I've never been able to shake my family. Being membered - being one limb of an immense grosser body - that's always been a fact to me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and father have been married four times each - eight ceremonies with the best of intentions.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was born in Amsterdam in a highly religious family. He was in Amsterdam, and he went into hiding right near where Anne Frank was. He was a theoretical physicist and the last Jew to get a Ph.D. in Amsterdam.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
O.K., my family isn't, like, stupid-wealthy. But I'm coming from a place where if football doesn't work out, I don't have to work at McDonald's.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Meema, her favorite show was 'Dallas.' She made the family watch. She loved to hate J.R. She passed away when I was 12, and I know she's looking down on me going, 'Oh, my goodness. How are you on the show? I am so proud of you and why in the hell are you playing J.R.'s son?'
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a very approachable and personable person, and I always put myself last. Whether it's family or friends, I always think about them first.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was being flirted with for 'Modern Family,' which my wife still hasn't let me live down, but it's one of those things where that show is so brilliant because the casting couldn't be any more perfect. It wouldn't have been right for me, and I wouldn't have been right for it.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Toughing out the winter is a dedication to my heritage, both in terms of not going 'soft' by kowtowing to nature's volatility and staying physically close to my family in New England. I don't run from that kind of pressure.
- Brand New
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- Nov 07, 2020
For many comedians, two common anxiety triggers include performing in front of family members and doing brand new material.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We spend 364 days a year surrounded by people who kind of are our family, but we never really get to meet them or break through with them.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember that when you're young and your career feels like the most important thing, the most important thing is love and the relationships you have with people - boyfriend, friends and family. It's good to remember that.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020