3 December 2020 Lewis Thomas It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.
3 December 2020 Clare Boothe Luce Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
3 December 2020 Mitt Romney The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
3 December 2020 Mehmet Oz In Turkey, you’re not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.
3 December 2020 Julie Andrews I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there’s a point where one says, that’s for family, that’s for me.
3 December 2020 Nicki Minaj My rule is, whatever you were calling me four years ago is what you should be calling me now, because I don’t like it when my family or close friends call me Nicki Minaj. To me I’m not Nicki Minaj when I’m with them.
3 December 2020 Martin Lawrence You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.
3 December 2020 Eddie Van Halen The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone.
3 December 2020 Jackie Chan I now have two different audiences. There’s the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
3 December 2020 Anthony Anderson I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.
3 December 2020 LeBron James You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‘Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.’ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.
3 December 2020 Alan Dershowitz I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn’t call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Warren Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.
3 December 2020 Jasmine Guy If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one’s friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.
3 December 2020 Sheryl Crow I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Margaret Drabble Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
3 December 2020 Kim Kardashian I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.
3 December 2020 Jeffrey Kluger There aren’t a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here’s one: No matter how much your parents deny it – and here’s betting they deny it a lot – they have a favorite child. And if you’re a parent, so do you.
3 December 2020 Monica Bellucci In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.
3 December 2020 Harry Houdini I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.
3 December 2020 Richard Pryor Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin’ to borrow money. I’ve always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.
3 December 2020 Johnny Vegas My work’s never been accepted by my family, but it’s something I’ll always carry on with.
3 December 2020 Tori Spelling I just want to have a great relationship with my child and have a great family dynamic.
3 December 2020 Shaquille O'Neal Everything happens for a reason. I’m used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what’s right for them and their family.
3 December 2020 Howard Gardner The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it’s Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.
3 December 2020 Gus Van Sant There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.
