Family Quotes - Page 39

• Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.

  Christina Milian

  Mom, Important, Expected

  "Christina Milian music maven". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.

  Cameron Diaz

  Birthday, Children, Wish

  "Kimberly Stewart sorry for calling Aniston 'homely'; Paltrow slams Hollywood as sexist; Pete Townshend engaged?". Daily Dish, www.sfgate.com. August 12, 2005.

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• If you’re a part of my family, I will love you violently.

  Charlie Sheen

  Love You, My Family, Ifs

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• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs.

  Elle Fanning

  Dog, Baby, Real

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• If a woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family, huge issue for our economy and our country's well being.

  Kathleen Turner

  Support, Plans, Housework

  "CNN Sunday Morning" with Catherine Callaway and Renay San Miguel, www.cnn.com. April 25, 2004.

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• I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

  David Hockney

  Independent

  "David Hockney: a life in art". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2012.

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• There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

  Shirley Knight

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

  Otto Rank

  Wife, Coveting, Morality

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• Be a storehouse of happy memories.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Memories, Happy Memories

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• Let us open wide the windows of our hearts, that each family member may feel welcome and 'at home.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Home, Heart, May

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• When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections are fulfilled when we are linked to our ancestors.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Heart, Connections, Things Change

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• It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect.

  E. L. James

  Growing Up, Perfect, Grows

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• I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion.

  Hugh Hefner

  Life, Dream, Passion

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• The subject matter that I am really spending my time on has become an acceptable subject matter. Living, lifestyle, family, is now in the forefront of interest in America, and I've just stuck with it. I mean, I've been doing this for years, and I never got angry. I never said, you know, listen, I'm fighting for this subject. That wasn't my point. My point was to continue working in a subject matter, knowing full well that finally it would be recognized as a viable subject once again.

  Martha Stewart

  Live Life, Passion, Mean

  "Martha Stewart on Perseverance", www.achievement.org.

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• A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.

  William James

  Power, Men, Interesting

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.67, Harvard University Press

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• Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.

  Zig Ziglar

  Friends, Christian, Encouragement

  Zig Ziglar, Dwight "Ike" Reighard (2013). “The One Year Daily Insights with Zig Ziglar”, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I love to snuggle up on the sofa wrapped in my duvet watching old black and white films, and catching up with friends and family on the phone.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Black And White, Phones, Duvets

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• I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now.

  John Lydon

  Might, Born, Wealthy

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• I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.

  Ken Livingstone

  Long, Lamps, Wake Up

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• You are 100 percent responsible for how your children turn out. And you accomplish that by teaching them that they are 100 percent responsible for how they turn out.

  Peter Koestenbaum

  Children, Teaching, Responsibility

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• I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30

  Robbie Savage

  Football, Careers, Age

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• The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

  Sylvia Porter

  Money, Average, Fiction

  Sylvia Porter (1976). “Money”

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• One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.

  Ogden Nash

  Fun, Would Be, Stranger

  'Family Court' (1931)

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• A child's job is to test her boundaries, a parent's is to see that she survives the test.

  Roger McDonald

  Jobs, Children, Parent

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• My family is the most important thing in the world to me, too, before anything else.

  Dennis Quaid

  Important, World, My Family

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