“As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.”

“My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.”

“I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.”

“Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.”

“I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.”

“There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.”

“You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.”

“The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.”

“I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.”

“My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.”

“Family is becoming more and more important to me.”

“My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.”

“My family were from Jamaica.”

“A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.”

“I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.”

“Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.”

“My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.”

“And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government.”

“This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.”

“Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.”

“All in the Family was intellectual it was art.”