Family Quotes
“I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.”
-- Angie Stone
“My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.”
-- Ronnie James Dio
“Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.”
-- David Ogilvy
“A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.”
-- Jeffrey Kluger
“After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.”
-- Billy Sunday
“I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.”
-- Mark Webber
“It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.”
-- Barbara Mandrell
“I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.”
-- Nicki Minaj
“I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.”
-- Tony Campolo
“I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.”
-- Marie Curie
“Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.”
-- Barbara Bush
“I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.”
-- Jackie Chan
“By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.”
-- Lawrence Welk
“I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.”
-- Brett Favre