Even good things can hurt you if you do them to the point of neglecting family, friends, or other interests.
June WilkinsonA king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
John SeldenI decided to show her how nasty and heartbreaking it was to see a member of your family - your own flesh and blood - killing themselves in front of your eyes
Jade GoodyI'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now...
John LydonThrough everything when you have these experiences in life it is important to remember the simple fact that family is always the main thing and most important part of your life.
Ekaterina GordeevaA plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
Igor StravinskyLike religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Erma BombeckA family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden NashFamily, nature and health all go together.
Olivia Newton-JohnIt's weird not to have the OC any more. I miss my friends on the show. I cried the last day. It was like a family.
Rachel BilsonI believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other - I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so.
Samuel ButlerThe pink sheep of the family [on himself]
Alexander McQueenHe and his family now need to have their personal privacy respected [on the Mark Oaten scandal]
Andrew StunellWe have been through so much together. None of us are from London and we're living away from our friends and family. We only have each other and that's what has made us so tight - that's why we have to remain as a five.
Kimberley WalshI 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 BilsonMy family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral
Ulysses S GrantAs the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Pope John Paul IIOur lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is... For me, that balance is family, work, and service.
Hilary ClintonI can only take Mike Ruddock at his word that he left for family reasons as I haven't had chance to talk to him yet, but I can fully understand those stresses.
Scott JohnsonThis has been a tough decision to make but I have decided to put my family first [on quitting as Wales coach]
Mike Ruddock'My family is just beyond out-of-control excited.' - Winning the Golden Globe
Jennifer GarnerIn Genesis, seeing the world filled with violence, God decided to drown all mankind except Noah's family. But because that family carried the same genes as those who had drowned, violence continued unabated.
Robert DavisNobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
Margaret MeadThe life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
C Wright MillsThe manager has always shown a lot of faith in me, and the fact that I gave up my home and family in Barcelona to come to Liverpool shows how much faith I have in Rafael Benitez.
Luis GarciaWe have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
Barbra StreisandThe intense build-up to the World Cup means more time away from my family. That is something I'd like to avoid. I have found during my two years as coach that the position is more than a job. That has meant I have spent long periods away from my family. [on resigning as Wales coach]
Mike RuddockMy father said "If somebody hits you, then you hit them back harder." That's the nature of the black family.
Bobby BrownAn increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for
Kim CampbellEveryone 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 CoppolaA loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed.
Jim BunningSmartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Gracie AllenHer [Diana's] blood family will do all they can to ensure her sons are not simply immersed by duty and tradition.
Charles SpencerFamily makes me feel there's a reason I'm alive... I'm feeling my life, which I didn't always do partly because I'd be drunk a lot.
Sean PennI thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.
Steven AdlerTrying to integrate oneself and ones family with a community like that is something that is always ultimately destined to failure.
Christopher GistWe 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 MoreFrom a personal point of view, Mark and his family have been very supportive of me and I'm very grateful [on sacking Mark Petchey as coach]
Andrew MurrayI told them to go home, look at their wives and children and say 'How do you think your daddy played today?' I won't be able to look my family in the eye after that.
Stuart PearceThe other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
George CarlinI just want to get a family, get my horses, and chill out.
Aurelie ClaudelI am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.
Louis FarrakhanFamily faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.
Gail Lumet BuckleyRemember as far as anyone knows, we're a nice normal family.
Homer SimpsonThe CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
Lyndon JohnsonThis 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'My family is my first priority but I don't think that means I should have to give up work. I am lucky that David is very supportive.'
Victoria Beckham'If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.'
Johnny DeppFor someone who's grown up in a sports-mad family and a bit of an Olympic junkie, I can't think of a better way to get fit. [on C4 show The Games]
Anna WalkerHe's got a young family and he had a fantastic future in front of him. It's everyone's worst nightmare and puts everything into perspective. [on Paul Hunter]
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