“Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I'm going to be married and buried there.”
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“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.”
“I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.”
“Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.”
“Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.”
“I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.”
“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.”
“I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.”
“I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.”
“I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.”
“I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.”
“There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.”
“I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.”
“My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.”
“As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.”
“Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.”
“There is an overwhelming amount of information available to us all on the web each day, not to mention what is shared with us by our family, friends, fans, and followers. This necessitates the need to filter through all that information and to decide for ourselves where to put our attention.”
“They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?”
“I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.”
“I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.”
“There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.”
“You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.”
“I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.”
“I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.”