Family Quotes

I spend a lot of time in L.A., and I think it would probably be easier if I lived there work wise, but there's no city like London, there is so much going on. I can jump on the Tube and be anywhere in 20 minutes, and all my friends and family are her...

Jeremy Irvine

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

John Irving

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful. I thought some of the stories were neat; I liked some of the liturgy and some of the songs.

John Irving

No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.

John Irving

The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.

John Irving

I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand. I have always written first drafts by hand, but I used to write subsequent drafts and insert pages on a typewri...

John Irving

I'm extremely proud of my family's record of public service to Massachusetts and the nation.

Joseph P. Kennedy III

Elective office and public service are obviously something that have long ties with my family, and something I'm definitely interested in.

Joseph P. Kennedy III

Every member of my family knows that running for office is a personal decision.

Joseph P. Kennedy III

My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

James Earl Jones

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

James Earl Jones

Our family's fortune is growing faster than ever. We're a part of a small number of American families that own most of the country's wealth. But having so much in the hands of so few can't be good for America.

Jamie Johnson

For rich children, it'd be very easy and convenient never to take any steps to build an identity outside of your association with your family's wealth.

Jamie Johnson

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.

Janet Jackson

I think it's been a little difficult at times for the audience, because they've told me they see me as a family member. So to see your little sister sing about sex... I think they are pretty used to it now.

Janet Jackson

I have a very strong family.

Janet Jackson

Being on 'Good Times' was the first time I was around a group of people that wasn't my family.

Janet Jackson

My parents were lured to America by the democracy here promised. In our family, freedom was a word to conjure by. Hoping for larger privileges for the growing family of children, they brought them to the New World, the world of many intellectual as w...

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

Jerry B. Jenkins

I left my family, and I left my brother and sister, and I went and lived my dream. I saw everybody, but is it ever enough?

Joan Jett

You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.

Joan Jett