Ralph Fiennes - One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
George Eliot - Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
Mel Gibson - A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.
Charles Dudley Warner - Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
Jessica Lange - For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
Tom DeLay - A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.
Christopher Lasch - The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
Sting - I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.
Gwen Stefani - At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.
Jim Carrey - Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.
Margaret Drabble - Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
Edward Furlong - I don't think anyone has a normal family.
Richard G. Scott - Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.
Bernice Weissbourd - Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
John Cheever - When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
Bob Ehrlich - Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.
Ring Lardner - The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
Jet Li - I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
Margaret Mead - Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
Gilbert K. Chesterton - The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the man makes for himself and by himself.
Charles R. Swindoll - A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
Willie Stargell - There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
Jamie Lee Curtis - I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.
Brad Pitt - A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.
Janet Jackson - I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.
Jerry Seinfeld - There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.
Anita Baker - You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
Grace Kelly - Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.
Guy Lafleur - When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.
John Oates - I have a great family, I live an amazing life.
Olivia Newton-John - Family, nature and health all go together.
Thomas Hardy - I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.
James Joyce - Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
Faith Hill - The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
Douglas Coupland - People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
Pope John XXIII - The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Walt Disney - A man should never neglect his family for business.
Barbara Bush - To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
Robert Frost - The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel - A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
Lee Iacocca - The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
Baruch Spinoza - All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Richard Bach - Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh - For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
Marquis de Sade - Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
Thomas Jefferson - It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Richard Bach - The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Michael J. Fox - Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
David Ogden Stiers - Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
George Carlin - The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
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