Big Families Quotes - Page 4

• We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.

  Denise Mina

  Nice, Air, People

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• While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.

  Bill Murray

  Mother, Lonely, Father

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• I look to my family for my support. I'm fortunate to have a big family.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Support, Looks, My Family

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• I grew up in a big family. You have to learn to get along with each other... get things done as a family.

  John Boehner

  Done, Grew Up, Bigs

  "Boehner: Sometimes I'm 'Gestapo'" by Tal Kopan, www.politico.com. January 24, 2014.

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• I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.

  Brooke Burke

  Girl, Dream, Holiday

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• I have a really big family, and pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters. I'm the youngest of eight - my mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later - so I was basically raised by all these teenagers.

  Ryan McGinley

  Mom, Brother, Teenager

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• People get burned out in big families, you can even see it in the naming of children. Like the first kid, "You were named after Grandma." The seventh kid, "You were named after a sandwich I had. Now get your brother, Reuben."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Brother, Children

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