Family Quotes

“I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.”

-- Ani DiFranco

“The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.”

-- Ice Cube

“It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.”

-- Barbara Bush

“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.”

-- Erma Bombeck

“Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend.”

-- Susannah York

“Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.”

-- Bernice Weissbourd

“No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.”

-- Tom Hanks

“Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.”

-- Vartan Gregorian

“Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.”

-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.”

-- Bruce Barton