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.”
“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
“My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.”
-- Julie Andrews
“Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.”
-- Ulysses S. Grant
“My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.”
-- Mitt Romney