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 on family
It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too. Liz Phair on family
What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future. Brad Henry on family
Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more. Bonnie Raitt on family
Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family. Aung San Suu Kyi on family
For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. Sidney Altman on family
One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about. Aung San Suu Kyi on family
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy. Anne Tyler on family
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. Cyril Connolly on family
My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties. Albert Brooks on family
A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. Katharine Butler Hathaway on family
Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them. Russell Crowe on family
Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death. Orlando Bloom on family
If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell. Sheldon Adelson on family
Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family. Edward Norton on family
Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own. Rutherford B. Hayes on family
I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities. Carlos Ghosn on family
I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great. Bryan Cranston on family
I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were watching the dollar, stretching the dollar, and coupons. It was all those things. Bryan Cranston on family
The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house. Al Sharpton on family