- Great
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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time.
- Devilish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had four children, we all had to struggle to get up and get educated, and they all did their part, and we all did the best we could, and that's what a family and a parent is supposed to do.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a boy, I read a terrible article in a big weekly American magazine called the 'Saturday Evening Post.' In the middle of this family magazine on my parent's coffee table was an article about this family that was camping, and they were all mauled by a grizzly bear in their sleeping bags.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a musician, I can't read music, but I came from a family of music fans. Not mad music fans, but people who like music. Both of my parents can play the piano. They were very good dancers, which I am not.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
- Good Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't fight for my legacy or for the glory or anything like that. The feedback from the fans is nice, don't get me wrong; it's a good feeling having them - you on their side. But I'm motivated by making a good living for my family, and that's what made me get serious about this.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as getting my start, it was really Norman Lear, even aside from being on 'All in the Family.' He helped me get my start as a director. He was the one who said, 'Let him do 'Spinal Tap.' Let him give it a try,' because I had been trying for years to get that thing off the ground.
- Lonely
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- Nov 07, 2020
'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020