Family Quotes

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

I don’t want to just be a teenage star. I want to be known by parents, and I want them to go, ‘Oh I love that song; he’s really good for his age. My daughter loves him, but I love him, too.’

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

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.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.

I’m lucky that I have my family, I’m lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.