The clan is nothing more than a larger family with its patriarchal chief as the natural head and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.

But you know we have a very normal family. We've had our ups and downs. You know we've had our issues but we've had great cause for celebration.

I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

When I was a kid I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

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.

I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.

I have my family my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

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.

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.

If I were to retire I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say Don't sell.

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.

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.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.

For our immediate family and relatives Canada was a land of opportunity.

Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my 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.

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.

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.

Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.

I had no fun. My family was too serious.