1,806 quotes
Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.
Aaron Klug
Physicist · British · b. 1926
The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.
Jim Bunning
Politician · American · b. 1931
If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.
Paul D. Boyer
Scientist · American · b. 1918
My family background was deeply Christian.
Abbe Pierre
Clergyman · French · 1912 – 2007
Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities.
Jim Gerlach
Politician · American · b. 1955
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
William Gilbert
Composer · British · 1836 – 1911
Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family.
Sister Parish
Designer · American
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
d. 1829
While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day.
Tim Bishop
Politician · American · b. 1950
The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved.
Laurence Housman
Playwright · English · 1865 – 1959
I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
Patrick Henry
Revolutionary · American · 1736 – 1799
The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.
Charles Eastman
Author · Sioux · 1858 – 1939
I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.
Francois Gautier
Writer · French
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
Henry Ellis
Psychologist · British · b. 1859
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
Valerie Solanas
Writer · American · 1936 – 1988
There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
Sam Mendes
Director · British · b. 1965
Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
Stella Benson
Writer · English
In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked and killed innocent Israeli citizens, and also 12 Americans in Israel in 2003.
Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.
Sherrod Brown
Politician · American · b. 1952
Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation.
Robert Teeter
Politician · American
Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
Cotton Mather
Theologian · American · 1663 – 1728
Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.
I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.
Atom Egoyan
Director · Canadian · b. 1960
I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.
Asa Gray
Scientist · American · 1810 – 1888
I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations.
Tom Allen
Politician · American · b. 1945
And the trajectory that our debt is taking now beyond $14 trillion is going to have an impact on our currency. It goes south, and our currency's going to have an impact on our standard of living and affect every family in this country, and over time, our international competitiveness.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Politician · American · b. 1960
We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.
Jeb Bush
Politician · American · b. 1953
What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.
Mark Shields
Journalist · American · b. 1937
It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young Native American families to stay on tribal lands in order to live, work and raise a family.
Rick Renzi
Politician · American · b. 1958
The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do?
George Crook
Soldier · American · 1828 – 1890
We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday.
Michelle Obama
First Lady · American · b. 1964
I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.
Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.
Sam Sheppard
Scientist · American · 1923 – 1970
Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?
The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Author · French · 1846 – 1870
One out of every 100 families in Vermont was a part owner of Ben and Jerry's.
Jerry Greenfield
Businessman · American · b. 1951
The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got his information on this topic from his millionaire supporters. For the average working family, these are trying economic times.
Jose Serrano
Politician · American · b. 1943
The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.
Dodie Smith
Dramatist · English · 1896 – 1990
I didn't have a very religious family.
Barbara Walters
Journalist · American · b. 1931
And I think one of the tasks that I always feel is how to get that vision out of them. Not exactly what they want, but what they want to accomplish for themselves or their community or their family.
Lawrence Halprin
Architect · American · b. 1916
We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge.
Jerry Brown
Politician · American · b. 1938
I am a great admirer of Sen. Frist, who is a nationally known heart surgeon and well known in Nashville as a great family man who has dedicated his life to helping others and, in that regard, he has followed in his father's footsteps.
John Jay Hooker
Businessman · American
You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community.
Al Smith
Politician · American · 1873 – 1944
I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Director · Iranian · b. 1957
I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
Dan Quayle
Vice President · American · b. 1947
Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death; and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare.
Timothy Murphy
Soldier · American
As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring.
Russ Carnahan
Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care.
Kathleen Blanco
Politician · American · b. 1942