My Family Quotes - Page 24

• I have some cops in my family. I understand the predicament that they're in. Sometimes they go into it just to pay the bills or because they don't have other choices, or sometimes they just want to get the gun.

  Wesley Snipes

  Gun, Choices, Want

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• Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.

  Aleksa Palladino

  Mom, Artist, Parent

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• When I was just a kid, growing up in Brooklyn, I was constantly making home videos with my family – real silly high-concept productions like, 'Attack of the Killer Handkerchief.' I guess I knew even then that I wanted to be an actress.

  Lana Parrilla

  Growing Up, Real, Silly

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• I talk to my parents more than anybody in my family.

  Jason Earles

  Parent

  Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. August 17, 2009.

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• Let me tell you about my family.

  Louie Anderson

  Let Me

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• Throughout my life, I have always lived with adversity and will continue to have faith and do good for my family, friends and fans.

  Lil' Kim

  Adversity, Fans, Have Faith

  "Lil' Kim faces jail for perjury". www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2005.

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• My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

  Gemma Arterton

  Play, Film, Mum

  "The Saturday interview: Gemma Arterton". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

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• My family are very down-to-earth people. We are not showbizzy at all.

  Gemma Arterton

  People, Earth, Down To Earth

  "Exclusive: Bond Girl Gemma Arterton shops at Primark and mum's a cleaner" by Damien Fletcher, www.mirror.co.uk. February 3, 2012.

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• I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first.

  Bridgette Wilson

  Kids, Careers, Balance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.

  Sam Huntington

  Kids, Years, Half

  "Sam Huntington Exclusive Interview BEING HUMAN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 13, 2011.

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• I'm a big Hilary Duff person! My family loves her.

  Miley Cyrus

  Family Love, Bigs, Persons

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• My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

  Vanessa Marcil

  Girl, Growing Up, Ghetto

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• One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.

  Zoey Deutch

  Sense Of Humor, One Thing

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• My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Block, Eight, Mountain

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• My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.

  Wentworth Miller

  Growing Up, Book, Games

  "SDCC 2010: Wentworth Miller Interview RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE; Plus Updates on STOKER and UNCLE CHARLIE". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. August 3, 2010.

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• I'm lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Fall, Support Systems, People

  "JoJo Dishes on Her New Album - and Hair!". "Seventeen" Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 6, 2011.

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• My Family and Other Saints echoes Gerald Durrell's classic memoir, My Family and Other Animals, not only in its title, but in its wonderful humor and lyrical prose. Like Durrell, Kirin Narayan takes the reader to a fascinating world far from our own, and brings to life its myriad sights, sounds and smells, while revealing the profound cultural beliefs of its people. India is just the most complex character among a cast of characters-family members, gurus, hippies, and neighbors-all of whom I now count as old friends.

  Judith Barrington

  Hippie, Character, Animal

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• Next to hurting my family, cheating on me is the worst thing someone could do.

  Robert Buckley

  Cheating, Hurt, Next

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The last two years, nationals have been close to home for me, so I've had big family support from friends and club support. Especially last year in Ottawa, I had a whole section my grandpa got for all my family, and the skating club (supported me). I feel like I'm a veteran at this now.

  Alaine Chartrand

  Home, Years, Two

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• I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.

  Suge Knight

  Real, Family And Friends, Passionate

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• An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends and books.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, Exercise, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.185

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• It's important that we came here, just to touch base here in this great country... When I was about 16 I came with my dad for a couple of weeks and had a great time and I've wanted to come back, it's been way too long. So, I'm very happy to be here and I want to come back longer with the rest of my family.

  Ben Stiller

  Country, Couple, Dad

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• My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.

  Diana Ross

  Kids, Energy, Tails

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• I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.

  Bob Balaban

  Children, Growing Up, Acceptance

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 03, 2003.

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• I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with.

  Picabo Street

  People, Mold, Path

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