“Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.”

“Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.”

“The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.”

“We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I'm trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.”

“I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.”

“Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time.”

“I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.”

“I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.”

“My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.”

“I grew up in a Navy family.”

“Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.”

“I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.”

“When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.”

“I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.”

“I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.”

“When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.”

“My health and my family are the core of my being.”

“Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.”

“Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.”

“I've been experimenting more and more with LN2, liquid nitrogen. I've used it in battle on 'Iron Chef America,' but have also made some great ice creams at home for my family. Since it freezes basically on contact, you can have ice cream ready in mere minutes.”

“My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.”