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I want to spend more time with my family, but I'm not sure they want to spend more time with me.
Esther Rantzen

Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.
Germaine Greer

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
Richard Bach

This decision has been the most difficult of my career to date. But after discussing it with my family and those closest to me I feel the time is right
David Beckham

He will never be dull to strangers who joins in sport with his own family.
Titus Maccius Plautus

All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.
Andrea Corr

I am a real family person, and I believe that the first and foremost thing in anyone's life should be the family, and we should make that a priority for everyone.
Kim Fields

I'm really happy with everything right now - my career and family life!
Jade Goody

In our family, we don't have rifts. We have a jolly good row and then it's all over. And I've only twice ever had a row with my sister
Princess Margaret

If I had to choose between wealth and a united family, I would 1,000 per cent have preferred my parents to stay together.
Minnie Driver

I walked out of show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family.
Pete Best

I put on a video of one of his recent fights and it made my eyes water, there were so many low blows. I want a big family so I was straight on the phone to sort out some insurance for my meat and two veg!
Kevin Mitchell

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
Susan Cheever

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Erma Bombeck

My father said "If somebody hits you, then you hit them back harder." That's the nature of the black family.
Bobby Brown

I will not be commenting further at this time and would now ask for some space and personal privacy for me and my family
Mark Oaten

I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!
Eva Gabor

I have never, ever knowly taken illegal drugs, and I would never embarrass my family, my friends, my country and the kids who love me.
Ben Johnson

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.
Antonin Scalia

In a boarding school there's no privacy, no money, and no help, except from the larger family of the school itself. There's no dreamy solitude, no slack time, no lazing
Nelson W Aldrich

It's something that my family can finally be proud of. [on his Hollywood career]
Hugh Jackman

When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door
Jacques Chirac

I grew up sort of like a princess. I know that sounds awful, but I was the baby of the family. I had older brothers, so the little girl always gets everything she wants. As I've gotten older, I've realized that if you want something bad enough, you can have it. I've never gone after something I didn't get. Not yet.
Rachel Bilson

It is essential that we understand people for who they are as individuals and not the public perception of them or their family and past.
Clement Freud

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns

If each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.
George Cadbury

My family knew it was good for my career and I would have only had the title Miss Great Britain for another few months anyway.
Danielle Lloyd

Pride, in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit
Johann Georg Von Zimmermann

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.
Sofia Coppola

I would like to apologise for errors of judgement in personal behaviour and for the embarrassment caused, firstly to my family but also to my friends, my constituents and my party.
Mark Oaten

I have always enjoyed acting and doing so in family films makes it all the more special.
Charlotte Zucker

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.
Stephen King

The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
Charles Baudelaire

I just want to get a family, get my horses, and chill out.
Aurelie Claudel

'I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God... I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world.'
Elvis Presley

The whole world is one family
Sun Yat-sen

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
Francis Picabia

I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't like to talk about my family
Luis Miguel

Everybody has always loved eating in Ireland and the family always gathered around the table - which was also where all the stories were told.
Maeve Binchy

We have employment assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues
Hannah More

I cannot believe that you've given us [me] a hundred grand... other contestants are telling me to spend it wisely and stuff, I hope they don't feel sorry for us [me], I have a great family and life. [The Geordie on being given £100k on Big Brother 8]
Liam McGough

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
Andre Maurois

A disease in the family that is never mentioned (Of the troubles in Northern Ireland)
William Trevor

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral
Ulysses S Grant

I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option.
Drew Barrymore

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape
Dodie Smith

We wish him and his family well, and we wish him every success in whatever he does in the future. [on Tony Blair]
David Cameron

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways: women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
Pope John XXIII

I've always had strays or rescue dogs growing up with my family.
Will Estes

After the family the most important thing is the foot... is the soccer
David Beckham



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