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• My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren’t related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.

  Quincy Jones

  Topics in Family, Father

• I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.

  Francesca Annis

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Successful, Women

• I’m often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I’m glad I didn’t go, because if I had I wouldn’t have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

  Francesca Annis

  Topics in Family, Life

  Tags in Special, Realised

• 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.

  Francesca Annis

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Formidable, Friends

• Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

  Gertrude Stein

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Revolutionary

• But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’

  Gertrude Stein

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Problem

• I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.

  Gerry Cooney

  Topics in Family, Work

  Tags in Irish, Catholic

• I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn’t change it for anything.

  Barry Gibb

  Topics in Family, Love

• I’m very much a family person.

  Barry Gibb

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Person

• The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you’ve got to come home.

  Barry Gibb

  Topics in Family

• Theo does comedy now, and he’s traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he’s from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.

  Trishelle Cannatella

  Topics in Country, Family

• We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Topics in Family, Job

• In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.

  Frances Burney

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Respectable

• Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it’s not bestowed on you by the royal family, it’s not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

  Rod Stewart

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Accepted, Nominated, Royal

• We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

  Barbra Streisand

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Presidency

• I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.

  Kristen Stewart

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Great, Need, Unseen

• Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Responsibilty

• My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.

  Gwen Stefani

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Mom, Leader, Creative, Just, Puppet

• There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Government, Scheme

• As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I’ll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I’ll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I’ll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.

  Dan Stevens

  Topics in Family, Opportunity

  Tags in Time, Happiness, Medium