Family Quotes - page 9

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children. (Lord Mountbatten)
You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian. View quote
Lynn Johnston
Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me. View quote
LaToya London
Life is about family and technology. View quote
Mark Goddard
It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car. View quote
Mary Cheney
I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty. View quote
Matt Drudge
I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love. View quote
Michael Landon
I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me. View quote
Moon Unit Zappa
Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land. View quote
Moshe Katsav
Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with. View quote
Oliver Hudson
It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love. (Olivier Martinez)
As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie. View quote
Pierre Salinger
So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime. View quote
Polly Toynbee
And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family. View quote
Patricia Ireland
Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family. View quote
Paul Cellucci
Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures. View quote
Paul D. Boyer
I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church. View quote
Paul Lynde
Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation. View quote
Robert Teeter
The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born. View quote
Sergio Aragones
I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small and medium size family farms so that they can continue to operate. View quote
Sue Kelly
Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin. (Tim Vine)
I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life. View quote
Tina Yothers
I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day. View quote
Tom Berenger
The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family. View quote
Townsend Harris
Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. View quote
Townsend Harris