Margaret Mead Quotes

Family counts for a lot in this world.

Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.

Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.

I talked about my family, my family's so important.

And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important.

I'm not entirely sure why I write about family, but I do know that it hasn't stopped interesting me. You meet and leave other people at different stages of your evolution, whereas family is made up of people who are constant links in your life, who know you over the course of time and have your complete curriculum vitae in their heads.

Although I never married, my brother fortunately did, and I have had the pleasure of watching his three sons and daughter grow up. Several of them now have children of their own. We have been a close-knit family, although often separated by distance, and have shared each other's happiness, sorrows, and aspirations.

I feel very, very lucky to have come from the family I did. We have our dysfunctions and our problems, just like any family. But my parents are extremely loving people.

I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.

I think a lot of the time, we don't give our family connections the kind of credit they deserve, like how important they are to us and how much they mean to us. I think family makes all the difference.

I really feel my family is my priority.

I'm very close to my family; they're the most important people to me.

Family life is fragmenting in this modern age, but it's up to all of us to keep it together.

A theme throughout my life has been the intergenerational relationships human beings have.

My family mean a lot to me, but I guess that's like it is with every other player.

Family has been really important to me.

Family is the most important thing in the world. If everything ended tomorrow and my family was still there, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.

Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)

The older I get, the more I appreciate the idea of being thrown together with a group of people you might have a lot in common with, or nothing at all. You don't have the option of doing anything other than making your family relationships work - forever. I like that.

I think we are defined as human beings through our families, no matter what kind of family - through our relationships with parents, brothers and sisters.

Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family.

I have a great family myself so I know if you don't have a family you've got nothing. Nothing else can take the place of the family - not girlfriends or a career.

I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family.

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.