No boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues [because a ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer].
Joe DiMaggioI thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.
Steven AdlerOutrageous, his lies about my family [on Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore]
George BushLike religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Erma BombeckWe 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 MoreA 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 SeldenEven good things can hurt you if you do them to the point of neglecting family, friends, or other interests.
June WilkinsonHappiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George BurnsOur 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'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now...
John LydonMy family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the Olympic Games.
Jose MourinhoThe 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 MillsAll happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way
Leo TolstoyI 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 FieldsEnough of good there is in the lowest estate to sweeten life; enough of evil in the highest to check presumption; enough there is of both in all estates, to bind us in compassionate brotherhood, to teach us impressively that we are of one dying and one immortal family
Henry GilesI walked out of show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family.
Pete BestIt'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 BilsonHer [Diana's] blood family will do all they can to ensure her sons are not simply immersed by duty and tradition.
Charles SpencerThe only person that you can count on is you and your family
Serena WilliamsI 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 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 PresleyI also know people in the Morrison family, the Wolfson family, the Murdoch family. Remarkably, I know quite a lot of families.
Allan LeightonMy 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 LloydAll 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 CorrA happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard ShawThe family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape
Dodie SmithI 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 PearceI will not be commenting further at this time and would now ask for some space and personal privacy for me and my family
Mark OatenWithout a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
Andre MauroisOther things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
Anthony BrandtI am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't like to talk about my family
Luis MiguelWell, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.
Jennifer EspositoLike all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
Queen Elizabeth IIAt age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous.
Paula DanzigerWhen I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
Susan CheeverAs the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Pope John Paul III'm really happy with everything right now - my career and family life!
Jade GoodyI love each and every one of you but,like my own family, you thrill, you frustrate, you anger.
John BuchananI just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.
Ken LivingstoneI'll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.
Montgomery Burns'Who knows? Maybe I am insane, too, it runs in my family, but I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I though, 'F*ck that. I want to be a superhuman.'
David BowieNobody 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 MeadIn dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao TzuThe other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
George CarlinI learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor.
Susan HaywardI 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'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 BeckhamThrough 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 GordeevaOurs is like Jewish humour with a sun tan - warm, family-based. We share a lot of neuroses such as food, guilt, overachieving children and controlling mothers. [on Asian humour]
Meera SyalFrom 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]
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